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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
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In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further and handle rate limiting. What Exactly to Rate Limit Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations that last a certain...
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
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I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Epic Web Dev
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
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When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
alexwlchan
I deleted all my tweets I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some...
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I had a complicated relationship with Twitter (now X). I wasted a lot of time there, got into some embarrassing arguments, and wrote things I now regret. But it’s also where I met friends and partners, started my career in cultural heritage, and began my queer awakening. Maybe...
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Open source is eating SaaS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B...
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fatigue is real. Open source has several key advantages, which make B2B SaaS companies look and feel traditional. Here's…
Steve Klabnik
User-Agent: moz://a
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Yale E360
"Help, iterators made my Rust program slower!" Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem. They had a Rust...
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Recently in a programming community I belong to, someone presented a problem. They had a Rust program which was using threads and for loops. When they updated the code to use iterators, it got dramatically slower. Why did this happen? For a Rust veteran, the problem might not be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
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After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
Yale E360
Rounding in Python In software engineering, there are two principles that often come into conflict. The first one is...
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In software engineering, there are two principles that often come into conflict. The first one is the principal of least surprise. The second one is doing the right thing. These come into conflict when the usual thing that people do is in fact the wrong thing. A particular...
Vadim Kravcenko
The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
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I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that...
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I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381...
HTMHell
There can be only one: Options for building “choose one” fields When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field...
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When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
alexwlchan
Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
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Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
David Crawshaw
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library...
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Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library includes , a generic SQL interface. It does a good job of doing exactly what it says it does, providing a generic interface to various SQL database servers. Sometimes that is what you want....
Josh Comeau's blog
The Perils of Hydration A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug....
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A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
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After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
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This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs? Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
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Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
Liz Denys
How communication breaks down In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their...
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In a little less than a month, the MIT undergraduate body will elect new leadership for their primary advocacy group, the Undergraduate Association. Every year around later February and early March, students who consider themselves relatively politically active request an...
Julia Evans
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other day, and I found...
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Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other day, and I found myself getting confused. What went wrong was: I thought that git cherry-pick was basically applying a patch, but when I tried to actually do it that way, it didn’t work! Let’s talk...
Irrational...
Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
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There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 2
over a year ago
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun...
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by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
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We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
over a year ago
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
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An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
A Smart Bear
p-Hacking your A/B tests Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
8 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
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I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
macwright.com
Hooking up search results from Astro Starlight in other sites At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty...
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At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty neat. One thing that I thought would be cool to include in it would be search results from our documentation site, which is authored using Astro Starlight. Our main application is...
Eric Bailey
It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
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One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
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...
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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.
Dan Slimmon
Don’t fix it just because it’s technical debt. Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time...
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Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time doing other, less optimal work?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an...
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The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link. This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
Vadim Kravcenko
🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
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🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
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I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023 The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
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The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
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I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
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I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
TokyoDev
A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies...
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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...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
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Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
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We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Podcast Notes: Vlad Prelovac on “The Talk Show” Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for. He’s on episode 416 of John...
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Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for. He’s on episode 416 of John Gruber’s The Talk Show to discuss why he thinks we should be paying for search. Hearing his point of view is compelling. I quite enjoyed the entire podcast. So much, in fact, that I...
Dan Slimmon
Leading incidents when you’re junior If you’re a junior engineer at a software company, you might be required to be on call for the...
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If you’re a junior engineer at a software company, you might be required to be on call for the systems your team owns. Which means you’ll eventually be called upon to lead an incident response. And since incidents don’t care what your org chart looks like, fate may place you in...
Chris Nicholas
How to write exceptional documentation Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
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Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
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If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
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Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 3) A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog...
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A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog component in React. The component achieves the following requirements: A reusable component API: we should be able to easily use our accessible modal anywhere and populate it with...
the singularity is...
High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
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I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
over a year ago
samwho.dev
Reservoir Sampling header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { ...
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header h1 { padding: 0; margin-top: 0.2rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; } button { margin: 0.5rem; padding: 0.5rem 1rem; background-color: #444444; color: white; border: none; border-radius: 8px; cursor: pointer; touch-action:...
The Codist
My Address Doesn't Fit, And Other Complaints So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the...
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So today, I decided to renew my driver's license online, like any modern person would. I started the process by going to my state's driver's license website. The first page is to verify my home and mail addresses. Since nothing changed, I hit "
General Robots
Dimension Hopper Part 1 2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Your Social Handle as Your Domain Name on Bluesky I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of...
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I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of setting my domain name as my handle, as I’m fan of the idea of apex domain’s becoming the currency of online handles. As I once tweeted: domains are the OG handles. Granted, I own...
David Heinemeier...
Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
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I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
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The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Components There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to...
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There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to share it with you all.
Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
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If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
General Robots
Coming soon This is General Robots.
over a year ago
HTMHell
Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where...
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by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user’s native one. This situation is common for users navigating government portals or local service providers in a country...
Sometimes It Works...
Autonomy: What it is and what it isn’t Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a...
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Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a clue Business leaders want to be too involved in the ‘how’ The agile team want to own the ‘what’ Blurred lines Not too much, not too little — just right The goal ¶Goldilocks...
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and...
6 months ago
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
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At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
The Codist
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
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I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
A small freedom area...
Saving a restic backup the hard way This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a...
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This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB). Its evil plan was to build up a corrupted...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
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For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask: Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)? Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About Innovations outside the AI spotlight
8 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Beans and vibes in even measure Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is...
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Bean counters have a bad rep for a reason. And it’s not because paying attention to the numbers is inherently unreasonable. It’s because weighing everything exclusively by its quantifiable properties is an impoverished way to view business (and the world!). Nobody presents this...
Ralph Ammer
René Descartes – How to be certain This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René...
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This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René Descartes – How to be certain appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
A Smart Bear
SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all...
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How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all that "revenue acceleration?" Here's a way.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on AMP Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP...
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Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat. A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
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In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
bt RSS Feed
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Irrational...
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring. Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may...
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Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more...
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Making software...
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
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89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I'll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn't already obvious). I...
Blog of Simple...
The Criteo case: a big deal for Big Tech
a year ago
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Family Tree Wisdom Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do...
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Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do it. Ha, I love it! It got me thinking: I’d love to hear more folks’ “wisdom from the family tree”. Stuff like Chris shared, “My grandpa used to say…” I immediately had a few family...
Identity Designed
OOP Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
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Max Countryman
Anatomy of the Update Email Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the...
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Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the components of a well-structured email, we can bridge the gap and ensure effective communication.
Steve Klabnik
The culture war at the heart of open source
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
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An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
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I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
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The essential tools used by product engineers Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
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Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
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One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
Irrational...
Wardley-Map
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alexwlchan
Setting up Fish to make virtualenv easier Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python. As I was starting with a...
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Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python. As I was starting with a completely clean slate, I wanted to try setting up Python the “right” way – or if not “right”, at least better way than my previous pile of hacks and kludges. (I don’t remember much of...
A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
A Smart Bear
Legacy Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
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Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
A Beautiful Site
Styling Custom Elements Without Reflecting Attributes I've been struggling with the idea of reflecting attributes in custom elements and when it's...
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I've been struggling with the idea of reflecting attributes in custom elements and when it's appropriate. I think I've identified a gap in the platform, but I'm not sure exactly how we should fill it. I'll explain with an example. Let's say I want to make a simple badge component...
37signals Dev
Thruster is now open source We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote...
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We’ve just released Thruster as open source! Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote to make it easier to serve a Rails application with great performance and security. It runs alongside your existing Puma process, and adds: HTTP/2 support SSL (via Let’s Encrypt,...
David Gerrells
too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
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I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Vadim Kravcenko
How to hire first rockstar employee You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can...
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You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […] The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Eric Bailey
SVG, Favicons, and All the Fun Things We Can Do With Them
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024 Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
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Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard, part 2: goals and values I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm...
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I spend a lot of time thinking about recruitment issues these days. This could be because I'm involved in a few student groups that have been spending a handful of time talking about it lately. While a good portion of discussion about recruitment is (and should be) focused on...
Yale E360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
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One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
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Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian...
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Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use Obsidian as my note-taking...
Maggie Appleton
Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries Why there is nothing natural about the idea of 'nature'
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
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The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
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.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
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I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone needs...
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Optimistic, Offline-First Apps This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
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Yale E360
Gaining depth perception In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly...
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In 2017, the way I see the world changed, literally. For the first time in my life, I had nearly full depth perception. When I was a kid, I was always the one who was bad at ball sports. Not for lack of trying, either. I'd run after a ball to catch it, only to be off by a few...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 05 · Edit groups “Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their...
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“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their collaboration, and avoid needless ceremony.
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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...
Neil Panchal
Coming soon This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
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This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
Blog System/5
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
TokyoDev
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
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You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
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My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But...
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It’s easy to talk bad about JavaScript (or at least its abuse) like it’s some kind of malware. But it’s worth remembering that JavaScript is enabled by default in web browsers. JavaScript is not so terrible, so harmful, so taboo, so something you shouldn’t use that it’s turned...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Zero-cost abstractions
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
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Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Optimizing images for the blog JPG images convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 85% simple-captcha.jpeg...
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JPG images convert -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 85% simple-captcha.jpeg result.jpg PNG images pngquant simple-captcha.png Optimizing images for the blog was originally published by Ognjen Regoje at Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io on April 03, 2025.
wingolog
whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet...
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Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet GC library For some time now, the name Whippet has referred to three things. Firstly, it is the , consisting of an include-only garbage collection library containing a compile-time...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
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I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
David Heinemeier...
Apple is in its Ballmer era During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock...
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During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock traded sideways, Ballmer made sure it was still raining dividends. Yet, today, that era of Microsoft is not looked upon too fondly. It's seen as being anchored in the company's...
ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105 If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
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If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes." Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies. The end result was...
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Hyper-Threading Works — A Microarchitectural Perspective Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous...
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Last weekend, we did a live session on the architecture of the hyper-threading (simultaneous multithreading) implementation in Intel’s x86 processors.
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s...
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ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
a year ago
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
Daniel Marino
Don’t Overthink Remote Working The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if...
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The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if possible. I’ve seen a fair share of tips for remote working blog posts this past week. I figured I’d cash in on the action and share my thoughts. Don’t Overthink It Most of the...
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Tell me about features, not benefits Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
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Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
Computer Things
Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness Logic for Programmers v0.8 now out! The new release has minor changes: new formatting for notes and...
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Logic for Programmers v0.8 now out! The new release has minor changes: new formatting for notes and a better introduction to predicates. I would have rolled it all into v0.9 next month but I like the monthly cadence. Get it here! Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering...
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Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
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Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
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The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Basta’s Notes
25 terrible engineer interview questions Ones that you should never ask
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
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.
HTMHell
Page by Page: How Pagination Makes the Web Accessible by Kristin Rohleder Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But...
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by Kristin Rohleder Imagine you’re reading a book that seems perfect for cozy winter evenings. But as soon as you turn the page, you suddenly find yourself somewhere else, rather than on the next page of the story. Now, you have to painstakingly search through the book to find...
Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
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Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
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over a year ago
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
David Heinemeier...
ONCE #1 is entirely #nobuild for the front-end The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without...
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The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without transpiling or bundling either JavaScript or CSS. I’ve been working towards this personal nirvana ever since we begrudgingly started transpiling and bundling assets in the late 2000s....
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
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WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
Epic Web Dev
Data Modeling Deep Dive (workshop) The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas,...
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The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas, managing relationships, data mutations, and optimizations.
Eric Bailey
Modifications we’ve made to the Design Sprint
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Tinker, Tamper,...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications (Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
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(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
somenice
Autumnal equinox 2023 Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using...
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Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
bt RSS Feed
Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
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Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not. Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn’t changed in years....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
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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...
Joel Gascoigne
Why you should continue working on your bad idea * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are...
Patrick Kayongo
On Leaving Coffee It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s...
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It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s not the memory of the dark beans that haunt your thoughts Though their beauty can’t be unseen It’s not the burst of energy from the first sip Though it’s hard to find other means...
Maggie Appleton
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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...
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*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
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Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it,...
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The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it, email me for your prize! Here’s some more images of the ware for your enjoyment.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Eponymous Laws Interesting Two Word ideas with names of people on them
over a year ago
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
On Test Automation
Contract testing - what (not) to test for - part 1 Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing...
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Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing implementation for a while and figured out they could use some outside help. I’ve paid them a visit recently, and to make the most out of our time together (there was some travel...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
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Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
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Networking Essentials: Routing How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for...
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It’s been a tumultuous year, but as the leaves changed I found myself getting excited for Hacktoberfest again. I am in the middle of buying…
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget` by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on...
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by Bramus figcaption { font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; } Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
Grant Slatton
Rohit Chess fun little board game
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TokyoDev
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
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In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
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We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
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How to start a growth team (as an engineer) Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at ...
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Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
Irrational...
How should we control access to user data? At some point in a startup’s lifecycle, they decide that they need to be ready to go public in 18...
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Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at this, and why should you reject jargon and "thought leaders?"
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It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
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This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
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Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "Those that get up at 5am rule the world" - Robin Sharma Those who know me, know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking...
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I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
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I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on reading specifications. I normally emphasize writing specs, so this one will need a different approach. While working on it, I had an idea that might make teaching TLA+— and other...
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Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is a good idea at the time. But in retrospect my rationales are quite often specious. At one point in the past, I decided that I...
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CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
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Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in my note taking app Edna. The API I care about is getting LLM response to a question in a streaming way. OpenAI pioneered this and created...
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This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
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Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
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I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and standardizing things, as well as baking accessibility in at both the design and development layers. My very cool boss is working on updating our grid system, and with that comes...
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As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to the office, the competitive hiring advantage for remote-first companies is back. And it's even bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many workers have had a taste of what...
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AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
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Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project. If you want to make a change, you update the...
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From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
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One word: satisfaction. This is how I could accurately describe my feelings when I achieved my dream of finding a software engineering job in Japan. But my dream had almost turned into a nightmare, as I had faced countless rejections for almost a year. Throughout my experience, I...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
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The Computer History Museum YouTube Channel I have been enjoying the CHM's YouTube Channel.
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Barb’s story It’s 12 noon on a Minneapolis Wednesday, which means Barb can be found at Quang. As the waiter sets down Barb’s usual order (#307, the Bun Chay, extra spicy), Barb’s nostrils catch the heavenly aroma of peanuts and scallions and red chiles. A wave of calm moves...
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Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
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We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
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“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be. ...
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In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
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Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
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Raising money is less stressful than bootstrapping Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are...
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Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are lots of myths around what it's like run a business…
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Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details." This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
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Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
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Never Do Spec Work for Free Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let...
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Never Do Spec Work for Free 2022-11-07 Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
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It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
Ink & Switch
Thinking with ink, spreadsheets for exploring scenarios, and a local-first key agreement protocol A project from our programmable ink track, a spreadsheet for exploring scenarios, and a new...
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Table Like It's 2023 In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from...
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In this article: Hello, Website Builders! A little history What is a table? Who benefits from tables? What does a table look like? What does a table sound and feel like? (Re)learning tables (1994 - 2022) WCAG levels unlocked When tables get complicated Go forth, and make good...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
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Switching From C++ to Rust Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
A Beautiful Site
Don't Do Magic We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary...
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We recently had a design for an "alert" component with an actions slot. In the spec, only secondary buttons were allowed in it. Dev: "Design only wants secondary buttons in the actions slot, so I'm forcing it." The developer was listening for the slotchange event and applying the...
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2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
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Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
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Some small accessibility fixes I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides...
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I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides for a new exhibition at work. I like to think my site is already pretty accessible – I put alt text on my images and I use semantic HTML – but I did find a few rough edges to...
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The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out...
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The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story. Here's my explanation, together with a dash of economics and social implications.
Epic Web Dev
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React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
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Habits of great software engineers The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
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The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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2015-06-24 "Cherokee is the first Unicode language in which lower case runes have smaller values than upper...
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"Cherokee is the first Unicode language in which lower case runes have smaller values than upper case runes." golang.org/cl/11286
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What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
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PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
The Changelog
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I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Snapshot At the end of Phase 2 of our “Ongoing Ink” project, we shared a handful of small progress reports.
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Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
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The secret to Rails OO design
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AMD in everything Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby...
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Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby on a budget. So instead of getting a top-of-the-line Intel Pentium machine, he bought two AMD K5 boxes, and got a faster rendering flow for less money. All I cared about in the 90s...
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What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
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Improving Github's New Design Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
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Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
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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.” This turns out to be incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If your model is incorrect, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here is...
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The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
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The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
David Heinemeier...
Be less precious The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best...
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The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
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Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be...
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Question: Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be a software engineer. But, I keep hearing the job market's tough. Been reading online that lots of devs are struggling to find steady gigs. Is your company looking for any devs?...
Alex Meub
Use the Natural CSS Box Model The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the...
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The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree. It determines how the content area, padding, border and margin of an element will be displayed. There are two types. The W3C Box Model x ...
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This site has buttons! This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple...
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This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
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Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
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When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
David Crawshaw
2014-12-11 shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.
over a year ago
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
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It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
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over a year ago
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
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I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack...
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One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems.
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
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over a year ago
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
HTMHell
#4 link-also-button Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix...
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over a year ago
Bad code <a href="https://example.com"> <button>Example</button> </a> Issues and how to fix them By nesting a button inside of a link, you’re sending two messages: this is a button, but also this is a link. If you’re not sure when to use <a> or <button>, watch The Links vs....
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
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over a year ago
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
Yale E360
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
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a year ago
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
swyx's site RSS Feed
100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
Bell Labs Org Chart I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful,...
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over a year ago
I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful, its challenges and struggles, innovation engine, people, its organizational structure, operations, and its legacy. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is an excellent albeit slightly...
bt RSS Feed
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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over a year ago
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...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is shown below. Thanks to adrian for sharing this ware! Adrian sent me several wonderful photos, and the whole thing is actually pretty neat to look at. However, for better or for worse the parts in the ware are so unique that most of them resolve to an...
HTMHell
aria-labelledby = self by Weston Thayer An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a...
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by Weston Thayer An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a good accessible name is important. If not, negative effects may include screen reader users missing out on vital information, voice control users struggling to interact, and any...
David Crawshaw
On recieving the News "HEISENBERG: Well that's not quite right. I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the...
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over a year ago
"HEISENBERG: Well that's not quite right. I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making a uranium engine but I never thought that we would make a bomb and at the bottom of my heart I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb. I must...
Eric Bailey
An introduction to macOS Head Pointer
over a year ago
Coding Horror
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core...
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over a year ago
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were...
Steve Klabnik
Why I don't like factory_girl
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Two Words The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two Words.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article...
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2 weeks ago
SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article describes how I implemented StrVec class for efficiently storing multiple strings. Much ado about the strings Strings are among the most used types in most programs. Arrays...
Josh Comeau's blog
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code...
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over a year ago
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this...
Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development. What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A...
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over a year ago
What is a state machine? I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine. A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a...
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a year ago
So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a hefty sum, […] The post Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Computer Things
Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet,...
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a month ago
No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet, which is why this newsletter is both late and short. Solving LinkedIn Queens in SMT The article Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused claims that SAT solvers1 are "criminally...
Epic Web Dev
Contribute an Epic Stack Example (tip) How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
I ask three questions When I'm interviewing for a job, these are the questions I ask
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.17.0 Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps ,...
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over a year ago
Having launched major features in our previous release such as Session Recording and apps , over the past two weeks we worked extremely hard to…
Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
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over a year ago
I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
Grant Slatton
How to write complex software A general method
6 months ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2) I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2024 The Ware for May 2024 is shown below. This is a guest ware, but I’ll reveal the contributor when I...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for May 2024 is shown below. This is a guest ware, but I’ll reveal the contributor when I reveal the ware next month, as the name and link would also lead to the solution.
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Confessions of a...
CPython Garbage Collection: The Internal Mechanics and Algorithms A detailed code walkthrough of how CPython implements memory management, including reference...
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
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Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
David Crawshaw
new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
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over a year ago
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
macwright.com
Recently We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The...
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We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns white...
Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer). You can also watch the video on YouTube. The content itself...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
Remains of the Day
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture “Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for...
over a year ago