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David Heinemeier...
Staying in the arena One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job...
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One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do...
bt RSS Feed
"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?" “This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” 2024-08-28 The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
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“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” 2024-08-28 The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
elementary Blog
OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the...
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a year ago
It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
Founder's blog
I really wanted to like Tailwind CSS TL;DR Nobody: Absolutely no one: Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS! First, a...
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TL;DR Nobody: Absolutely no one: Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS! First, a tip of the hat Let's get one thing out of the way: Tailwind CSS is great. For starters, Tailwind is a very polished and well-thought-out product. As a fellow bootstrapper - I...
A Smart Bear
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...
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Web standards are just "minor details" A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
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A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
dthompson
Optimizing Guile Scheme Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features...
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a year ago
Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time spent developing Chickadee, a...
Confessions of a...
CPython Internals: What Happens Before Bytecode Execution Starts Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading...
10 months ago
Computer Things
What could be added to TLA+ Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of...
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Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of the TLA+ foundation". Lamport released TLA+ in 1999 and shepherded its development for the past 25 years. Transferring ownership of TLA+ to the official foundation has been in the...
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
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Open Source Typeface Pairings 2018-01-25 I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost). So, I’ve...
Patrick Kayongo
Play “I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their...
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a year ago
“I’ve got an idea!” Musa now had the attention of all the other kids. They started lifting their backs from the lazy sloth on the paved ground outside of his garage. All the kids in the conformant townhouse complex regularly gravitated towards his house during the school...
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Google is about to make it a lot harder to track website and app users without third-party cookies Google says they intend to deprecate the use of third-party cookies in 2023. But why is this...
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
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Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here...
Steve Klabnik
Thankfulness
over a year ago
HTMHell
ARIA Live Regions by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and...
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a year ago
by Andrea de Souza ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and attributes that makes web page elements accessible to users who require assistive technology, like screen readers, when native HTML alone is not enough. One of these sets of roles...
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We wash our trash to repent for killing God Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the...
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3 months ago
Denmark is technically and officially still a Christian nation. Lutheranism is written into the constitution. The government has a ministry for the church. Most Danes pay 1% of their earnings directly to fund the State religion. But God is as dead here as anywhere in the Western...
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...
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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...
Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
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10 months ago
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
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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...
Alice GG
Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
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It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> ...
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Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> <section> <h2>Overview</h2> <figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)"> <figcaption> <h4>My heading</h4> ...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Building Elm with Stack
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article) Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest...
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5 months ago
Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
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Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Yale e360
Affirmations for bloggers Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of...
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Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to. Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated. It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you. But there are also some common issues that block people...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks,...
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The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
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IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
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My Favorite Podcasts 250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
over a year ago
TokyoDev
To -San or Not to -San? Addressing Japanese People in English It’s your first day at your new Japanese company, and your coworker approaches with a smile....
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9 months ago
It’s your first day at your new Japanese company, and your coworker approaches with a smile. “Hello!” she says in English. “My name’s Rin Takahashi. I look forward to working with you.” “Likewise!” you say. “It’s nice to meet you, Takahashi-san.” “Oh, you can call me Rin!” Oh no,...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
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For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
Confessions of a...
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
8 months ago
Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
Yale e360
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
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Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
Eric Bailey
Don’t forget to localize your icons Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing...
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Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended. What he failed to realize is that this gesture means a lot of different things to a...
A Smart Bear
Our unhealthy fixation with emulating #1 Being "undefeated" or "#1" might be more luck than you know.
4 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Working on legacy code Take your time If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in...
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Take your time If you rush, you might miss some implications of your changes and cause more work in the long run. So, do it right the first time. Secondly, since you’ll be in the code anyway, take some time to ensure that it will survive unchanged for another stretch of...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 03 · What's In a Name? Why we’ve renamed the project
4 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
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Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
On Life and Lisp
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
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Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual...
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Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?
Irrational...
Who runs Engineering processes? Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
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Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week. The volume of requested reviews...
Liz Denys
Dan dan mian, the clearly Not Chinese way Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This...
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Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This isn't it. In fact, I've never actually made it because I couldn't acquire all of the ingredients without going out of my way. Also, I don't really like committing to making a certain...
alexwlchan
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1...
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Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1 mission. The long and expensive development of SLS has been the subject of much debate, and caused a lot of online rage. I will now induce similar rage at a fraction of the...
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
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I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2024: this website is now built with wruby My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
A Smart Bear
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
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I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Steve Klabnik
Ouroboros
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023 It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
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I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Sometimes It Works...
Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Queues & Jobs The Task Scheduler Dream...
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Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues Queues & Jobs The Task Scheduler Dream within a dream ¶Job within a Job: Scheduling Inception with Laravel Queues This article originally appeared on LaravelUK. This may seem obvious to many of you, but I always think...
Yale e360
Fiction as a lens into technological change The world is changing right now. We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact...
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a year ago
The world is changing right now. We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact on almost every field, and we could see anything from minor efficiency gains to catastrophic AI apocalypses to mass disruption of many jobs. The cone of possibility is wide, and...
Steve Klabnik
Today is my first day at Oxide Computer Company
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
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CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
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over a year ago
Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software. Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
James Vaughan's blog
How I Take Notes With Vim, Markdown, and Pandoc
over a year ago
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Words and Buttons...
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
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An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
Jibran’s Perspective
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Measuring Developer Relations DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
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DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy. Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any...
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Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any engineering organizations. I imagine that they, reading through the steps to build engineering strategy, or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership, are not impressed....
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2024 The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when...
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The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
bt RSS Feed
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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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...
bt RSS Feed
Never Do Spec Work for Free Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn’t be taken for granted. Let...
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Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn’t be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn’t be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
The Changelog
The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a...
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Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 02 · Writing prose Writers of books, blog posts, and science papers could benefit from powerful version control.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
The language strangeness budget
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
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I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
Eric Bailey
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what...
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There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what someone can see and do on a website or web app—is the only place you need to consider accessibility. This simply isn’t true. Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every...
HTMHell
Microdata for books by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
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by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Borrow checking, escape analysis, and the generational hypothesis
over a year ago
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
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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...
Eric Bailey
Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1 I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML...
a year ago
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I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML elements, and is intended to be printed out as physical media. It was a ton of fun to make, and so refreshing to get back to print media design for a bit. Here are the two pages I...
Maggie Appleton
The Cultural Anthropology of React An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Children of You The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low...
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The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction. In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
over a year ago
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When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
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It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
ntietz.com blog -...
Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what...
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There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what you're looking for, but it's not intuitive for me, so I do forget. It's that shadowing a variable can sometimes give you an UnboundLocalError! It happened to me last week while working...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
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One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
the singularity is...
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I wrote a tweet about this but deleted it, since it’s a much more nuanced topic than can be discussed there. Nuclear weapons are the Chekhov’s gun on the world stage. When, if ever, are they going to be fired? When should they be? I suspect this is not a question a lot of people...
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Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
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This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
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Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
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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.
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"No Code" Is A Lie _Originally published on [the Webflow blog](https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie)._
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
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Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
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Intervention ≠ good Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite...
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Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an...
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
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Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
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Friendcatchers Patrick McKenzie's simple concept for making friends on the Internet.
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Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions? A week ago, somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. If you used...
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A week ago, somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. If you used the compromised action, it would leak secrets to your build log. Those build logs are public for public repositories, so anybody could see your secrets. Scary! Mutable vs...
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Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large...
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As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
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6 things I do to be consistently happy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
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You can't get faster than No Build For the first time since the 2000s, I'm working on a new Rails application without using any form of...
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For the first time since the 2000s, I'm working on a new Rails application without using any form of real build steps on the front-end. We're making it using vanilla ES6 with import maps for Hotwire, and vanilla CSS with nesting and variables for styling. All running on a...
A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
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Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements. I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
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Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
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I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
TokyoDev
Tips for Interviewing at Japanese Tech Companies I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in...
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I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in Japan](https://medium.com/japonica-publication/tips-for-landing-a-job-in-japan-b1b94315f177), as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
TokyoDev
How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan “Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s...
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“Should I live here, in Japan?” That thought crossed my mind almost as soon as I landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. So I began my very first, brief and spontaneous trip to any Asian country, in February of 2024. I’m sure I wasn’t the first or last tourist with such ideas...
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
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inlined nearly divisionless random numbers a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded...
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a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded random numbers has a fast path and a slow path. In the fast path it gets a random number, does a multiplication, and a comparison. In the rarely-taken slow path, it calculates a...
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petnames and Zooko's fan Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to...
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Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming. I have long been a fan of petnames, and graph naming systems in general. I first learned about them in the context of Mark Miller’s E programming language...
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It's easier to code review Rust than Python On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust...
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On Monday, I was talking to a friend about programming and I mentioned that I prefer to review Rust code over Python code. He asked why, and I had some rambling answer, but I had to take some time to think about it. It boils down to the fact that I can give a much better review...
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Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
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Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs, Intuition, and Working With Computers I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood...
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I recently watched Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs (and took notes). This slide stood out: For the best [prompt] results, combine: Domain knowledge of the thing you're working on Understanding how the models work Intuition gained from playing around with them a lot I am...
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Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
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The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
Computer Things
Verification-First Development A while back I argued on the Blue Site1 that "test-first development" (TFD) was different than...
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A while back I argued on the Blue Site1 that "test-first development" (TFD) was different than "test-driven development" (TDD). The former is "write tests before you write code", the latter is a paradigm, culture, and collection of norms that's based on TFD. More broadly, TFD is...
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HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Meetings for an effective eng organization. Some engineers develop a strong point of view that meetings are a waste of their time. There’s good...
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Some engineers develop a strong point of view that meetings are a waste of their time. There’s good reason for that perspective, as many meetings are quite bad, but it’s also a bit myopic: meetings can also be an exceptionally valuable part of a well-run organization. If you’re...
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Open source (and self-hosted) alternatives to Hotjar & FullStory Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture....
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Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
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Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and...
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In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
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Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
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Why Not Comments Logic For Programmers v0.3 Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a...
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Logic For Programmers v0.3 Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a nice-looking book. You can see some of the differences between v2 and v3 here. Why Not Comments Code is written in a structured machine language, comments are written in an...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
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There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
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Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
The History of the...
Where does SEO come from? In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It...
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In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn't be owned. The post Where does SEO come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
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It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
Liz Denys
Adding Open Graph to Pelican I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when...
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I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
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So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider. A different...
Ink & Switch
PushPin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
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Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
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Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
A Smart Bear
Breaking the Rules When you know the rules, then you can break the rules.
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Give me a definition for the word dashboard I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that...
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I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that completely threw me for a loop. We were conducting user research with a demographic with a high degree of variability in both skill level and technological literacy. The common thread was...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
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Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
Making software...
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Rust in 2019
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Josh Comeau's blog
A Million Little Secrets I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in...
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I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my...
Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy. Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
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Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform. This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs, as one component in understanding the company’s strategy. In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
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I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Joel Gascoigne
Bright & Early Podcast with Brian Rhea I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above,...
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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brian Rhea on the Bright & Early podcast. Listen above, and see more details here.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
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The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer...
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Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer emulator in SQL. Challenge accepted! This year we will be building an SQL query which will emulate a quantum computer. This query will process quantum assembly, build the circuit, run...
HTMHell
5 HTML elements, And a partridge in a despair tree HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility...
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HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility benefits—it conveys semantic meaning to assistive technology, enabling people to consume content and complete often important journeys that they may not be able to do outside of the web. So...
Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Yale e360
Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I...
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I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I implemented for it was alpha-beta pruning, which is a way of pruning out branches of the search tree to significantly speed up search. This is a common algorithm, which I also...
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
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Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
Vadim Kravcenko
Being a good mentor – a developers guide Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
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Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […] The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
macwright.com
Notes on using Linear We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep...
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We’ve been using Linear for a month or two at Val Town, and I think it has ‘stuck’ and we’ll keep using it. Here are some notes about it: The keyboard shortcuts are as good as people say they are: you can do things like hover your mouse over a row in a list, hit a keyboard...
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
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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...
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We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
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The Many Jobs of JS Build Tools A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS...
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A discussion of why JS developers use build tools like Webpack and what we do with them, for new JS developers.
Making software...
Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
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It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated...
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Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online? Then I may have something for you. On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
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I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
Tony Finch's blog
the penultimate conditional syntax About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”....
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About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”. It has the attractive goal of unifying pattern match with boolean if tests, and its solution is in some ways very nice. But it seems over-complicated to me, especially for...
Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Blog of Simple...
Closing the data gap - Simple Analytics x Usercentrics
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Everyone a writer "The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
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"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
Steve Klabnik
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Sometimes It Works...
Code: Selfish Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding...
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Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding selfishly. This isn’t what you think. Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
Alice GG
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
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When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
HTMHell
#6 link with void operator as href value Bad code <a href="javascript:void(1)" onClick='window.location="index.html"'>Link</a> Issues and how...
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Bad code <a href="javascript:void(1)" onClick='window.location="index.html"'>Link</a> Issues and how to fix them Links won't work, if JavaScript fails to load or execute. You don’t need JavaScript to link to other pages, you can use the href attribute for that. Browser support is...
James Vaughan's blog
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Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
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What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
Maggie Appleton
The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data How block-based interfaces can help us create more structured data on the web
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Little Swarming Gnats of Data Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer...
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Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of emails I get when I fly, e.g.: Check in now Track your bags Your flight will soon depart Your flight will soon...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Software is What We Learned Along the Way Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not...
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Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not merely the picker of fonts, the dropper of shadows, the executor of deliverables. My greatest value as a designer lies in orchestrating the process and gathering insights — applying...
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
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In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
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In my article on HTML web components, I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop. There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it. Then...
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It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
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Stick with the customer One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the...
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One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the customer-facing roles too early. Whether it's customer support or it's sales, it's an incredible advantage to have the founders doing that work directly, and for much longer than they find...
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Next allows you to do server-side data-fetching, but what happens when that data needs to change on the client? This brief tutorial shows how to re-fetch the props without doing a full server reload.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend Khuram...
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
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I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
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In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Seriously: numbers: use them!
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There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
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tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
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One of the first leadership books I read was Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which introduces the concept of your peers being your “first team” rather than your direct reports. This was a powerful idea for me, because it’s much harder to be a good teammate to...
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How do you rescue a legacy codebase that has no tests? Let's look at some techniques for clawing your way back to maintainability, one test at a time.
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The magic function How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a...
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How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.
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There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take...
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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...
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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...
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How I came to Japan ------------------- During the first day of the first computer science course I took, I happened to sit next to a Japanese woman. Over the semester, we became friends, and I remember many a lunch we had together, where she would tell me about life in...
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Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe become a "success?" Maybe you don't.
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Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be saved for later. Creativity is perishable, just like inspiration. It has to be discharged regularly or it will spoil. And if you let enough of it go to waste, eventually your talents will sour...
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Demystifying styled-components For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
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For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
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How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its...
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As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp,...
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We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our...
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The lawnmower button As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated....
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As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated. Eventually, he wound up pacing in my cubicle, watching me frantically click on things. With the press running in less than an hour, he blurted out something that completely threw...
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Let's Talk OS 8 One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
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One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
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Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
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If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-15 "The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student...
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"The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a...
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Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad...
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Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad. It's time...
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
alexwlchan
Unexpected errors in the BagIt area Last week, James Truitt asked a question on Mastodon: James Truitt (he/him) ...
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Last week, James Truitt asked a question on Mastodon: James Truitt (he/him) @linguistory@code4lib.social Mastodon #digipres folks happen to have a handy repo of small invalid bags for testing purposes? I'm trying to...
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Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
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Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
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Array 1.1.0 Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
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Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
Ink & Switch
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Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
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As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
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Speeding up mobile development with Turbo Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever....
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Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
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Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
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This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
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Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
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We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
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#10 <section> is no replacement for <div> Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display:...
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Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display: none;"></section> </section> <main> <section id="main-content"> <header id="main-header"> <h1>...</h1> <section class="container-fluid"> <section class="row"> ...
A Beautiful Site
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
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Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
the singularity is...
Money is the Map A lot of smooth brains on Hacker News about the last post. I’m sorry if you spent your whole life...
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A lot of smooth brains on Hacker News about the last post. I’m sorry if you spent your whole life worshipping money, but hey, the Bible warned you about false idols, don’t shoot the messenger. “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” – Mark...
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The Changelog
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
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As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
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Birth of a new blog What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
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What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”. This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Tinloof - Blog
JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
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This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
Dan Slimmon
Post-mortems: content over structure The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected...
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The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected behaviors of the system, and learning lets us make improvements to the system’s reliability. The value of post-mortem documents is much less apparent. Many R&D orgs will insist that...
Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
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I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
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Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML vs TypeScript: comparing their type systems A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values...
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A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values in a piece of code, and validates them against their types. JavaScript has a type system, but it’s dynamic. This is one of the key advantages of using the language, providing an...
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
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It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
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I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
A Smart Bear
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...
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A decade of code A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
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A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
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Array 1.36.0: Introducing AND/OR filtering, timezone support and universal search PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard...
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Edit: It’s happening! ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt. User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: * User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: * was originally published by Ognjen Regoje at Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io on March 26, 2023.
David Crawshaw
Service Throughput Tradeoffs Service Throughput Tradeoffs 2018-04-13, David Crawshaw I am currently writing a service that lets...
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Service Throughput Tradeoffs 2018-04-13, David Crawshaw I am currently writing a service that lets users upload files. The typical file size is about 25KB, the maximum is 100MB, with file sizes following a power-law distribution. The nature of the service is that I need to buffer...
Liz Denys
The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of...
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Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of all forms. My hands-down favorite until a few months ago was the caffè macchiato - not to be confused with the highly commercialized latte macchiato you see in places like...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2025 I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
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I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
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Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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10 things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping...
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Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
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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...
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The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
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Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
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Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
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A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech...
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Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't...
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Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the...
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I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to...
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What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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Is your product the reason your startup is failing? The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very...
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The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very appealing. Perhaps that's why so many people risk doing it. The problem is, many of them don't succeed. There are hundreds of reasons a startup can fail, but let's focus on one for a...
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Paper review: C-store It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read...
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It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read "C-store: a column-oriented DBMS" from chapter 4 of the Red Book. This one I picked since I thought it would be helpful for the chess database I'm working on, and it does seem...
macwright.com
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I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can open most project directories and run just dev, and it’ll boot up the server that I need. For example, the blog’s justfile has: dev: bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --live...
HTMHell
#2 div with button role Bad code <div tabindex="-1"> <div role="button"> <svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg> ...
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Bad code <div tabindex="-1"> <div role="button"> <svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them Setting button semantics explicitly using the role attribute isn’t necessary, there’s an element for that (button). You don’t need the tabindex...
Cognitive...
Fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware - background I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need...
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over a year ago
I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need to give a little background. My basic goal was to figure out "what's the most powerful AI I can customize and run on my shiny new 4090." The answer right now is LLaMA 30b....
Josh Comeau's blog
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...
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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...
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
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Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
over a year ago
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
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a year ago
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
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Why we're removing the sessions page This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain...
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This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users…
Vadim Kravcenko
⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms,...
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If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms, SLA stands […] The post ⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Writing - Andreas...
The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
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Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 7: Basics of ncurses I learnt some basics of ncurses
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Posts on Nikita...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
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over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
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8 months ago
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my startup [https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with] is that I get the...
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
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On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
Steve Klabnik
Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Give Back Friday with PostHog Black Friday is normally an occasion to shop around for a new TV or mobile phone. But we wanted to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Black Friday is normally an occasion to shop around for a new TV or mobile phone. But we wanted to do something a little different, something to…
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
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a year ago
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
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over a year ago
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Yale e360
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I'd also like it to...
Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it different from how git actually works? So in...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 million ARR - July update
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Josh Collinsworth
First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
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How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
the singularity is...
Imitation Learning 7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
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a year ago
7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t) Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t Drive cars with that model. The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
davidyat.es
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
a year ago
Yale e360
Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
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a year ago
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Four years with Rust
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
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2 weeks ago
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a dashboard and set of extensions to operate and observe background jobs, that we’ve been using for over a year, in the beginning with Resque only, and later with both Resque and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
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over a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start with quick-and-dirty...
a year ago
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a year ago
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called “Shameless Green”.
Eric Bailey
Maralinga bomb test On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing...
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over a year ago
On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing program was codenamed One Tree, and utilized a payload comparable to the horrific Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The test was part of Operation...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
6 months ago
Yale e360
TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me...
a year ago
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a year ago
About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me why I was using a particular type of UUID. I'd heard about this type while working on that project, and it's really neat. So instead of hogging that knowledge for just us, here it...
Ferd.ca
Hiding Theory in Practice 2022/11/23 Hiding Theory in Practice I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading...
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over a year ago
2022/11/23 Hiding Theory in Practice I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading books and papers about them, I hang out with other incident nerds, and I always look for ways to connect the theory I learn about with the events I see at work and in everyday life....
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
A Smart Bear
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an...
a year ago
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a year ago
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
Maggie Appleton
October 2021
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.