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22nd Jun 2017
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
12th Mar 2025
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Catching grace

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

12th Mar 2025
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
1

The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Simple image vectorization Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out...
7th Mar 2019
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Simple image vectorization

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

7th Mar 2019
Vectorization is when you take some minecraft-style raster image and make a crisp vector picture out of it. The algorithm describes shows how bilinear interpolation, polynomial approximation, differential analysis, and iterative algorithms work together to solve a practical...
Secure Random Numbers in Node.js Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js. const {...
3rd Jul 2019
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Secure Random Numbers in Node.js

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

3rd Jul 2019
Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js. const { randomBytes } = await import("node:crypto"); const buf = randomBytes(256); console.log(`${buf.length} bytes of random data: ${buf.toString("hex")}`); crypto.randomBytes() is a...
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

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

31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
My Biggest Mistake… So Far My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right...
2nd Dec 2015
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My Biggest Mistake… So Far

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

2nd Dec 2015
My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right Amount of Selfish ¶My Biggest Mistake… So Far ¶or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity Check out this video from a couple of weeks ago: Selfless vs SelfishDid you notice the...
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
1st May 2020
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

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

1st May 2020
Explaining React through visual metaphors
How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18] Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]

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

6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
Online Dating Is anyone having a good experience with this? What would it take to fix this? I investigate. First...
2nd Aug 2024
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Online Dating

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

2nd Aug 2024
Is anyone having a good experience with this? What would it take to fix this? I investigate. First off, you need a business model that isn’t mobile gaming. A monthly fee. Even better, you have a great thing to “sin tax.” Single men. Charge men money per month. Only men. Every...
Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8 name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000...
15th Feb 2017
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Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8

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

15th Feb 2017
name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000 n=25+30) golang.org/cl/30080
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
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We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
3rd Sep 2021
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

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

3rd Sep 2021
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
25th May 2025
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May 2025

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

25th May 2025
Building a metadata database with AI agents Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building...
31st May 2026
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Building a metadata database with AI agents

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

31st May 2026
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building applications where agents act as users.
Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
5th Sep 2023
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Aging Code

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

5th Sep 2023
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

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

7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
How PyTorch Generates Random Numbers in Parallel on the GPU A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
18th Dec 2025
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How PyTorch Generates Random Numbers in Parallel on the GPU

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Dec 2025
A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
5th Mar 2024
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Patchwork 06 · Simple branching

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

5th Mar 2024
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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Introducing PageRoast

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

11th Mar 2021
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448...
29th Sep 2025
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

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

29th Sep 2025
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448 characters void main(){vec3 c,p,K=vec3(3,1,0);for(float...
What I'm up to - September 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2025
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What I'm up to - September 2025

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

1st Sep 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big...
6th Jun 2023
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

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

6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
Epistemic Disclosure Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
10th Nov 2021
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Epistemic Disclosure

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

10th Nov 2021
Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content
How I became a machine learning practitioner For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
30th Jul 2019
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How I became a machine learning practitioner

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

30th Jul 2019
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
Winamp in Your Pocket: 63 artist depictions of physical Winamp players A massive dump of every 3D rending and artist concept of physical versions of Winamp
10th Oct 2025
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Winamp in Your Pocket: 63 artist depictions of physical Winamp players

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

10th Oct 2025
A massive dump of every 3D rending and artist concept of physical versions of Winamp
first-class merges and cover letters Although it looks really good, I have not yet tried the Jujutsu (jj) version control system,...
11th Sep 2025
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first-class merges and cover letters

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

11th Sep 2025
Although it looks really good, I have not yet tried the Jujutsu (jj) version control system, mainly because it’s not yet clearly superior to Magit. But I have been following jj discussions with great interest. One of the things that jj has not yet tackled is how to do better...
Your target market isn't demographic How to define your actual target market, which probably isn't traditional demographics and...
7th Sep 2025
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Your target market isn't demographic

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

7th Sep 2025
How to define your actual target market, which probably isn't traditional demographics and firmographics.
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
6th Jan 2019
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders

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

6th Jan 2019
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
2016-02-10 "Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody...
10th Feb 2016
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2016-02-10

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

10th Feb 2016
"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

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

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
27th Mar 2017
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Switching to Pelican

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

27th Mar 2017
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
Small Web Just Got Bigger Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart...
12th Mar 2026
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Small Web Just Got Bigger

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

12th Mar 2026
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...
Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at...
1st Apr 2021
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Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly

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

1st Apr 2021
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at runtime.
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
2nd Mar 2024
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Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2024
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
2nd Aug 2020
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2020
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
13th Sep 2026
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases

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

13th Sep 2026
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
27th Sep 2023
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
5th Jun 2025
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

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

5th Jun 2025
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
notes from Naval (2025) someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting...
6th Jul 2025
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notes from Naval (2025)

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

6th Jul 2025
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to Market Yourself Without Being A Celebrity and "Play Long Term Games with Long Term People". HTGR also...
Silly fach generator I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
2nd Jan 2013
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Silly fach generator

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

2nd Jan 2013
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
25th Nov 2013
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自営業している開発者の事例

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Nov 2013
![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaFVsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--0fd0bbea7ce4fe8a41672eaf8df9cc22c297bbb0/itnomikainagoya.jpg) [IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans

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

2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive. As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a...
a week ago
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How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a memory usage problem that Instagram encountered with Python.
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

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

2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
3rd Jan 2008
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Netscape support ending in February 2008

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

3rd Jan 2008
On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
Full Stack Foundations (workshop) The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling,...
1st Sep 2023
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Full Stack Foundations (workshop)

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

1st Sep 2023
The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling, Routing, Data Loading, Forms, SEO, Error Handling, and more!
Constructing a four-point egg For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
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Constructing a four-point egg

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

29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I...
Kubernetes at Work Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren...
20th Jun 2020
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Kubernetes at Work

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

20th Jun 2020
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
21st Feb 2022
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Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware

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

21st Feb 2022
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
About Some Stuff About Me
1st Jan 2001
26

About

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2001
Some Stuff About Me
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
19th Jun 2023
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.io considered harmful

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jun 2023
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
What's your newsletter's North Star? A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
11th Oct 2024
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What's your newsletter's North Star?

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

11th Oct 2024
A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
Hello world... 8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However,...
8th Jul 2019
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Hello world...

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2019
8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However, all that blogging over the years has been focused on fashion, lifestyle and travel over on another URL and lately, I've been wanting to dig into more design and front-end focused...
The Gift Economy Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
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The Gift Economy

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

3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What...
3rd Aug 2025
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A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

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

3rd Aug 2025
I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute? Well, I looked around. I found some things I already knew about, e.g. Link protocols like mailto:, tel:, sms: and...
From roots to polynomials Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of...
7th Aug 2022
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From roots to polynomials

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

7th Aug 2022
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the "root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
Why React Re-Renders In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
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Why React Re-Renders

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

16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
12th Oct 2022
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2022
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Guide to fast Next.js Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
15th Jan 2024
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Guide to fast Next.js

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

15th Jan 2024
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
Guile-Websocket 0.1 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an...
12th Nov 2022
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Guile-Websocket 0.1 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2022
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:...
Overcast summer update Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low...
21st Jul 2019
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Overcast summer update

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

21st Jul 2019
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features. But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
5 coding interview questions I hate I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some...
21st Mar 2022
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5 coding interview questions I hate

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

21st Mar 2022
I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some were pure cringe. I’ve been asked if I have kids (supposedly, people with children won’t have time to job hop), and if “I bet my ass I cost that much”. Fun times. But today I’d like...
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
25th Aug 2017
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Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling

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

25th Aug 2017
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
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...
29th Jan 2018
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You Don’t Need a Website

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

29th Jan 2018
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...
Literate Vimrc Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
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Literate Vimrc

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

14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a thing like this? I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey...
26th Mar 2017
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Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS

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

26th Mar 2017
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity. Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
Pointillism rose Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
3rd Feb 2013
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Pointillism rose

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

3rd Feb 2013
Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique...
3rd Aug 2019
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Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase

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

3rd Aug 2019
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem.
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often...
23rd Mar 2026
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Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

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

23rd Mar 2026
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
2nd Oct 2023
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Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms

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

2nd Oct 2023
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm) Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of...
4th Aug 2017
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Tutorial for github.com/kjk/flex Go package (implementation of CSS flexbox algorithm)

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

4th Aug 2017
Package github.com/kjk/flex implements CSS flexbox layout algorithm in Go. It’s a pure Go port of Facebook’s Yoga C library. High-level API overview Despite implementing CSS flexbox spec, it isn’t tied to CSS/HTML in any way. Yoga, for example, can be integrated with...
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

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

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

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

4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
15th Jan 2019
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Cool Facts about Cuttlefish

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

15th Jan 2019
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
4th Nov 2019
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Nothing matters

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

4th Nov 2019
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
Digging into git commit templates Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been...
21st May 2025
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Digging into git commit templates

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

21st May 2025
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. – Eagleson’s Law After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but someone removed it. Their full commit message read: Remove config. Don't bring...
About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
10th Apr 2017
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About the Apple Captive Network Assistant

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

10th Apr 2017
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
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Learn In Public

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

19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
What I'm up to - March 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
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What I'm up to - March 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
Winner, Name that Ware August 2026 The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”,...
2 weeks ago
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2026

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

2 weeks ago
The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”, part number 99-35107. Above is a contextual photo of how the unit looked mounted in the kit. And above are a couple examples of projects you can build with the “IC” as part of the...
You should add SSO We added new log in options, and we can't recommend it enough.
4th Jul 2023
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You should add SSO

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

4th Jul 2023
We added new log in options, and we can't recommend it enough.
Building a Simple Chrome Extension with ChatGPT I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and...
20th Mar 2024
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Building a Simple Chrome Extension with ChatGPT

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

20th Mar 2024
I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and I get some dopamine seeing a nice animation when completing a lesson on Mimo, however, it is pretty abstracted from a real environment. I learn things best under two conditions:...
Renamed two fields on subscribers subscriber_type becomes type, and email becomes email_address
1st Aug 2024
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Renamed two fields on subscribers

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

1st Aug 2024
subscriber_type becomes type, and email becomes email_address
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
10th Apr 2025
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Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

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

10th Apr 2025
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
How to Get Started with Programming for Free in 2026 (article) Learn TypeScript for free in 2026 — no experience needed. A structured path from total beginner to...
2nd Mar 2026
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How to Get Started with Programming for Free in 2026 (article)

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

2nd Mar 2026
Learn TypeScript for free in 2026 — no experience needed. A structured path from total beginner to production-ready developer, starting with two free workshops.
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
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Network Latencies in the Data Center

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

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

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

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
15th Oct 2020
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Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition

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

15th Oct 2020
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
Where the Bitter Lesson ends Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
27th Mar 2024
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Where the Bitter Lesson ends

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

27th Mar 2024
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering. Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
29th Dec 2021
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Four

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Dec 2021
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder. 2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

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

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

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

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them in a separate post - basically the McClusky Curve...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
9th Nov 2020
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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

9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
1st Nov 2020
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A History of Cyborgs

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

1st Nov 2020
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
A Tool for Discussion At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
2nd Feb 2023
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A Tool for Discussion

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

2nd Feb 2023
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...
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
5th Apr 2019
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CSS: Indenting Text

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

5th Apr 2019
CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

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

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the...
29th Nov 2013
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Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song

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

29th Nov 2013
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

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

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
11th Apr 2024
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Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2024
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
Mac OS X keychain fix How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
29th Oct 2007
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Mac OS X keychain fix

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

29th Oct 2007
How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
Getting Started with Anchor Positioning For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one...
6th Jul 2026
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Getting Started with Anchor Positioning

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

6th Jul 2026
For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a first-class solution to this problem, and it’s pretty friggin’ cool! In this...
poached eggs A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs (in the shell, with plenty of salt and...
14th Mar 2026
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poached eggs

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

14th Mar 2026
A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs (in the shell, with plenty of salt and pepper, and buttery fingers of toast to dunk into the runny yolk) and pondering how fiddly it is to cut off one end of the shell after boiling compared to eating a poached egg. And I was...
Autumnal equinox 2023 Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
24th Sep 2023
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Autumnal equinox 2023

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2023
Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
12th Aug 2020
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From Mac to Windows

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Aug 2020
From Mac to Windows
Digital decluttering I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about...
13th Sep 2024
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Digital decluttering

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Sep 2024
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
6th Feb 2023
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Supporting communities that empower women in technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
1st Dec 2022
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
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how not to run a saas company

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

13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Repeat the obvious Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious. --> It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the...
9th Nov 2015
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Repeat the obvious

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2015
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious. --> It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the company engineering blog. Every sentence is a slog. Not because I'm exacting and conciseness isn't my strong suit. My writing is slow because every word is obvious, almost...
nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
12th Jun 2024
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released

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

12th Jun 2024
I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

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

6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
Universal Basic Dead End While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer...
7th Apr 2025
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Universal Basic Dead End

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

7th Apr 2025
While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer ready for the big question of "what are we all going to do when the jobs are gone": Just pay everyone enough to loaf around as they see fit! Problem solved, right? Wrong. The...
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter > 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

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

20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
Free idea: design token ugly mode A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every...
1st Jul 2024
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Free idea: design token ugly mode

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

1st Jul 2024
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design. Smaller, newer experiences tend to be more uniform than not. This makes sense in that the bulk of the experience is created at the same...
No hassle detected! The importance of tools
9th Aug 2024
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No hassle detected!

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

9th Aug 2024
The importance of tools
17th Apr 2011
Noom is exploitative I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT...
8th Apr 2023
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Noom is exploitative

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

8th Apr 2023
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum I have written a lot about the pendulum swing between engineering and management, so I often hear...
24th Mar 2022
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Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Mar 2022
I have written a lot about the pendulum swing between engineering and management, so I often hear from people who are angsting about the transition. A quick recap of the relevant posts: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Engineering Management: the Pendulum or the Ladder If Management...
When is my Cake Day? Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.
20th Nov 2015
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When is my Cake Day?

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Nov 2015
Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.
My path to OpenAI I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
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My path to OpenAI

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

3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
1st Apr 2019
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

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

1st Apr 2019
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

5th Jan 2021
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...
Making a Website is for Everyone Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this...
1st Oct 2023
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Making a Website is for Everyone

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

1st Oct 2023
Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this wonderful articulation: the web is the only programming platform (that I know of) that considers its builders regular people, not IT Professionals and continues to write standards with...
Clean your Mac & Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing...
3rd Sep 2026
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Clean your Mac & Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2026
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible. My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
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...
29th Apr 2024
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of

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

29th Apr 2024
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.
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
1st Mar 2023
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Adding page transitions in SvelteKit

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

1st Mar 2023
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
Things I enjoyed in 2023 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
30th Dec 2023
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Things I enjoyed in 2023

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

30th Dec 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
Process Debt I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
10th Dec 2023
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Process Debt

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

10th Dec 2023
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Stroustrup's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
11th Dec 2024
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Stroustrup's Rule

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

11th Dec 2024
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrup's Rule I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
11th Sep 2023
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

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

11th Sep 2023
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
30th Jun 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023

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

30th Jun 2023
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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

3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
31st Dec 2015
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WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough

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

31st Dec 2015
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
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
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Imposter Syndrome Driven Design and a Bedfordshire Clanger

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
4th Dec 2023
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

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

4th Dec 2023
A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is...
3rd Aug 2020
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The Early Days of GitLab - A Chat with Sid Sijbrandij

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

3rd Aug 2020
It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
1st Sep 2024
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Rust Macros: Zero to Hero

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

1st Sep 2024
A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
Rational interpolation Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
5th Mar 2024
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Rational interpolation

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

5th Mar 2024
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
5th Dec 2024
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Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails

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

5th Dec 2024
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate...
12th Sep 2025
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2025
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate to mlx
Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical —...
4th Sep 2025
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Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2025
Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical — Meta’s text editing framework — and it brings a much better text editing experience to Rails: Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should be. Markdown support:...
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
23rd Aug 2017
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How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Aug 2017
A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
What I'm up to - November 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
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What I'm up to - November 2022

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

1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" on Eleuke electric ukulele I arranged and recorded Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies' on my new Eleuke electric ukulele.
21st Sep 2010
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Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" on Eleuke electric ukulele

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

21st Sep 2010
I arranged and recorded Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies' on my new Eleuke electric ukulele.
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
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DevOps vs SRE: delayed coverage of the dumbest war

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
7th Feb 2024
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Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

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

7th Feb 2024
Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
Neofetch – Server Administration System I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the...
4th Oct 2022
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Neofetch – Server Administration System

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2022
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the system as soon as I log in and with zero friction. I am obliged to use the one and only tool: neofetch. Neofetch is a pillar of
First week of Byte-Sized Tech It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech. My main goal in creating...
6th Sep 2024
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First week of Byte-Sized Tech

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2024
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech. My main goal in creating this channel was to read tech books. I wanted to summarize them to avoid just skimming. It hasn’t gained much traffic yet. But, I hope it will resonate with more people so that I...
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...
7th Apr 2024
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The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness

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

7th Apr 2024
How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
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Clip sharing with Overcast

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

27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Wokeism There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
13th Feb 2023
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Wokeism

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

13th Feb 2023
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this. When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got: The first...
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
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A clever way to style the <mark> element

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

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>...
I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
3rd Jul 2011
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I have no idea what I am doing

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

3rd Jul 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2018
This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy sell, full API docs and tutorial are already available at glom.readthedocs.io. met me at PyCon, this 5-minute talk. The Spectre of Structure In the Python world, there's a...
One happy Rails World Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the...
7th Oct 2023
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One happy Rails World

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

7th Oct 2023
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was...
10th Jan 2024
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Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

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

10th Jan 2024
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
On over-engineering; Architecture Edition I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance between making your code “too”...
10th Dec 2024
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On over-engineering; Architecture Edition

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Dec 2024
I recently wrote about over-engineering and striking a good balance between making your code “too” future-proof and not making it future-proof at all. Some time later, I realized it was missing a critical perspective. I hadn’t addressed over-engineering from an architectural...
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
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Amiga Systems Programming in 2023

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

30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels

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

4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
1st Mar 2021
Happy Leap Day! 29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
29th Feb 2024
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Happy Leap Day!

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Feb 2024
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
Attention is all you have The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of...
3 weeks ago
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Attention is all you have

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

3 weeks ago
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You...
Password Rules Are Bullshit Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If...
10th Mar 2017
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Password Rules Are Bullshit

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

10th Mar 2017
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv — Jeff Atwood
Spelunking desktop apps saves time Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the...
20th Apr 2020
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time

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

20th Apr 2020
Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the bookmarks plist 2. Update the Tower database 3. Open Tower Lessons ¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time ¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
Using Bun.js as a bundler Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s...
17th May 2023
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Using Bun.js as a bundler

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2023
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until today haven’t had a good excuse to use it. (Edit: There’s some good conversation about this post...
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

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

15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

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

3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
28th Apr 2024
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Merging Responsibly

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

28th Apr 2024
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
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The optics of pair programming

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

17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
9th Jun 2024
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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

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

9th Jun 2024
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring...
5th Dec 2025
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Building less, tinkering more, and walking away sooner

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

5th Dec 2025
I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring trip – I'm thinking about it now while listening to the Eric Dolphy album Out There on vinyl, which I bought after hearing it at the Eigakin jazz kissa
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
13th Nov 2019
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Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century

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

13th Nov 2019
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a...
5th Feb 2024
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Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests

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

5th Feb 2024
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage. We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down. This had a few effects. One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests. Another was...
Curried pumpkin soup Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
2nd Feb 2010
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Curried pumpkin soup

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

2nd Feb 2010
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!

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

11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
1st Jan 2025
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Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator

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

1st Jan 2025
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price? Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other...
1st May 2012
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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

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

1st May 2012
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
7th Jan 2023
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Linkblog archives

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

7th Jan 2023
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
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