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Consider the Tomato
8th Sep 2020
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Consider the Tomato

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

8th Sep 2020
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout

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

7th Oct 2020
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
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How autonomous vehicle simulation works When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
7th Jun 2024
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How autonomous vehicle simulation works

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

7th Jun 2024
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
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How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
3rd Mar 2023
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How do Nix builds work?

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2023
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
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Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
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Power dynamics in web specifications

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
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What can agents actually do? There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can...
6th Jul 2025
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What can agents actually do?

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2025
There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these...
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Good Design Sells Open Source I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
7th Aug 2011
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Good Design Sells Open Source

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2011
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to [Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress appealed...
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2014-04-18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
18th Apr 2014
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2014-04-18

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

18th Apr 2014
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2023
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#33 make me one (input) with everything The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad...
27th Aug 2024
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#33 make me one (input) with everything

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Aug 2024
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad code <label for="textinput">First name</label> <input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name"> Issues and how to fix them The...
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The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending...
5th Aug 2026
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The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy

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

5th Aug 2026
In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model.
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Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned...
6th Jan 2023
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Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering

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

6th Jan 2023
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting […] The post Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Type-safe interpolation in styled-ppx
12th Oct 2025
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Type-safe interpolation in styled-ppx

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

12th Oct 2025
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data) Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
19th Feb 2024
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)

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

19th Feb 2024
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
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Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
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Learn In Public

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

19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
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Password Math A friend from my PC Magazine days recently posted on Facebook a little mathematics anomaly that he...
8th Feb 2025
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Password Math

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

8th Feb 2025
A friend from my PC Magazine days recently posted on Facebook a little mathematics anomaly that he encountered while trying to figure out the number of possible passwords under certain conditions. He began with the stipulation that a four-character password had to be constructed...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023

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

3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick...
1st Sep 2012
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea

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

1st Sep 2012
* 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...
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Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020 I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
17th Oct 2020
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Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020

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

17th Oct 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
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Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
5th Feb 2021
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Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2021
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
29th Jan 2015
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite

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

29th Jan 2015
After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew: First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
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Announcing Emoji 1.0
10th Feb 2014
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Announcing Emoji 1.0

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Feb 2014
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10x engineers talk to users I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
6th Mar 2023
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10x engineers talk to users

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

6th Mar 2023
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
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Data Processing Agreements
1st Jun 2023
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Data Processing Agreements

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2023
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Rails has two default stacks
14th Jan 2013
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Rails has two default stacks

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2013
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You can now add automatic alt text to your images You can now add automatic alt text to your images
6th Oct 2023
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You can now add automatic alt text to your images

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

6th Oct 2023
You can now add automatic alt text to your images
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The next step in Buffer’s social media journey Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years...
2nd Aug 2017
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The next step in Buffer’s social media journey

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

2nd Aug 2017
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets. So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
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Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in...
15th Jul 2024
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Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism

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

15th Jul 2024
We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in Western media or online discourse. Indeed, there is a growing sentiment that ‘the system isn’t working’, ‘the system is rigged’,  and that ‘
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

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

7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
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Why I don’t give investment advice When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for...
9th Jul 2023
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Why I don’t give investment advice

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2023
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
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What I'm up to - September 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2025
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What I'm up to - September 2025

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

1st Sep 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...
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Solution, Name that Ware May 2026 The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co...
30th Jun 2026
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Solution, Name that Ware May 2026

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

30th Jun 2026
The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the organ’s “stops”. There were 5 core memory boards in this instrument which differ in how many words were...
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS

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

10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update) Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
6th Nov 2017
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)

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

6th Nov 2017
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7 devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1 Virtual Suica...
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Interleaved deltas
22nd May 2026
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Interleaved deltas

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd May 2026
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Array 1.21.0 Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into...
17th Feb 2021
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Array 1.21.0

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

17th Feb 2021
Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens…
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Higher-order reactive graph programming
10th Mar 2017
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Higher-order reactive graph programming

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2017
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Tags now get auto-grouped Tags now get auto-grouped
5th Feb 2024
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Tags now get auto-grouped

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

5th Feb 2024
Tags now get auto-grouped
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Array 1.19.0 This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
15th Dec 2020
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Array 1.19.0

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

15th Dec 2020
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
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Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
5th Feb 2011
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Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta

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

5th Feb 2011
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
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Granular tracking settings Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
6th Feb 2022
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Granular tracking settings

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

6th Feb 2022
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
14th Oct 2023
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2023
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
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Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
3rd Dec 2023
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Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't

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

3rd Dec 2023
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
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Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...
14th Sep 2022
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Focus

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

14th Sep 2022
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
10th May 2022
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac)

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

10th May 2022
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
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Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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Querying through shadow roots

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

4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
9th May 2025
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2025
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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The Livelymerge Experiment Introducing Livelymerge.
5th Jun 2026
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The Livelymerge Experiment

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

5th Jun 2026
Introducing Livelymerge.
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Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer. Simple tools can extract assets and source...
3rd Apr 2026
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Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering

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

3rd Apr 2026
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer. Simple tools can extract assets and source code from the packaged files. If you are making commercial games you probably want to take some steps to avoid this. Jorien Loman Godot RE Tools The most popular Godot reverse...
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of...
4th Mar 2024
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust

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

4th Mar 2024
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented...
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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
1st Sep 2023
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“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies

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

1st Sep 2023
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
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Create a Course on Boot.dev We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented...
4th Sep 2025
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Create a Course on Boot.dev

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

4th Sep 2025
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon

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

28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
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Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
28th Apr 2024
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Merging Responsibly

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

28th Apr 2024
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
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Mommy bloggers react After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step...
22nd Sep 2026
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Mommy bloggers react

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2026
After a write-up in the New York Times, Mommy Bloggers had two options. Either lean in, or step back. Given how popular it became after that, it's not hard to guess which option they chose. The post Mommy bloggers react appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
11th Dec 2023
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
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My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
10th Jan 2018
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My first podcast appearance

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

10th Jan 2018
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
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A societal failure on all levels A week in San Francisco
1st May 2026
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A societal failure on all levels

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

1st May 2026
A week in San Francisco
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Creating Caddyfiles with Cog I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs. I don’t want to break...
5th Feb 2026
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Creating Caddyfiles with Cog

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2026
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs. I don’t want to break inbound links to the old URLs, so I’m creating redirects between old and new. My current web server is Caddy, so I define redirects in my Caddyfile with the redir...
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
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New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
3rd Jun 2024
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New zine: How Git Works!

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2024
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
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Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
6th Dec 2023
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Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Dec 2023
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
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Digital hygiene: Notifications Take back your attention.
6th Aug 2025
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Digital hygiene: Notifications

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

6th Aug 2025
Take back your attention.
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Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
11th Dec 2018
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Capstone: A tablet for thinking

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

11th Dec 2018
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
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December 2024
1st Dec 2024
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December 2024

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

1st Dec 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2023 ✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
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What I'm up to - January 2023

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

1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they...
11th Mar 2026
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2026
I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they used to have a useful insights dashboard that let me analyse my power usage. Well, they seem to have removed it so I built a handy dashboard that anyone can use. It’s at...
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Promises From The Ground Up The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
3rd Jun 2024
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Promises From The Ground Up

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

3rd Jun 2024
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
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Machining under a microscope "The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
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Machining under a microscope

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

20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally." www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

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

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

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

8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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Adding unpack syntax to RCL
7th Dec 2025
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Adding unpack syntax to RCL

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated… The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
16th Mar 2023
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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

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

16th Mar 2023
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
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Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
6th Jul 2025
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Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2025
Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
7th May 2023
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

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

7th May 2023
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
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AI features now run on-premise Short version: every AI feature we ship on the hosted helpdesk now runs on the self-hosted edition...
10th Feb 2026
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AI features now run on-premise

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

10th Feb 2026
Short version: every AI feature we ship on the hosted helpdesk now runs on the self-hosted edition too. It's a separately licensed Docker add-on, perpetual license, one-time payment. Customer data stays on your network. Requires Jitbit Helpdesk v11.22 or newer. Why this took a...
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Literate Vimrc Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
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Literate Vimrc

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

14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a thing like this? I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
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PWA: What it is and why you should try it The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
20th Jan 2023
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PWA: What it is and why you should try it

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

20th Jan 2023
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users. Mobile applications...
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A software engineer's guide to A/B testing As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
13th Jul 2023
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A software engineer's guide to A/B testing

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

13th Jul 2023
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
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Annual Review 2024 Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the...
4th Jan 2025
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Annual Review 2024

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

4th Jan 2025
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the cool 15 degree climate. This year, I’m in freezing cold Sapporo drinking a carton of the delicious local milk. For simplicity, I’m largely sticking to the format from my 2023 annual...
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No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

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

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
5th Jul 2021
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Headless React

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2021
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
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Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023) Read the post here.
11th Jul 2023
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Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023)

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2023
Read the post here.
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?

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

18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
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how to make a game engine Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure...
20th Dec 2025
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how to make a game engine

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

20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure manmade code. How hard can it be?
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Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023 My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
3rd Dec 2022
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Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023

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

3rd Dec 2022
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
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"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
31st Mar 2020
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"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2020
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
19th Nov 2024
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

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

19th Nov 2024
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
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Github Copilot suggesting links A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that...
1st Aug 2023
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Github Copilot suggesting links

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2023
A potentially very useful but probably unintended and unpolished feature of GitHub Copilot is that it can suggest related links. That is, if you paste a link, then on a new line type https:// and wait for a second, Copilot often suggests a link or two. The results, at the moment,...
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AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense...
4th Mar 2024
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AI Is Like a Lossy JPEG

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

4th Mar 2024
That’s something I’ve heard before — ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — and it kind of made sense when I read it. But Paul Ford, writing in the Aboard Newsletter, helped it make even more sense in my brain. [AI tools] compress lots and lots of information—text, image, more—in...
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The possibilities of the color-adjust property
14th Aug 2018
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The possibilities of the color-adjust property

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

14th Aug 2018
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The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
27th Jan 2025
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The Inverted Reactivity Model of React

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

27th Jan 2025
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other frameworks.
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024 Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024

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

1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the... “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An...
23rd Jan 2021
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?”

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

23rd Jan 2021
“How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An Engineering Manager Hey, real quick: how long have you been managing? If it’s less than two years, honey, the answer is “you don’t.” Your feelings about your performance don’t mean much in...
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Wokeism There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
13th Feb 2023
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Wokeism

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

13th Feb 2023
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this. When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got: The first...
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A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering...
2nd Jan 2024
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A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS

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

2nd Jan 2024
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax. For someone who is...
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notes from Naval (2025) someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting...
6th Jul 2025
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notes from Naval (2025)

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

6th Jul 2025
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to Market Yourself Without Being A Celebrity and "Play Long Term Games with Long Term People". HTGR also...
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
29th Sep 2021
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2021
This article is also available [in...
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data

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

5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
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Introducing Action Push Native Note: Shortly after releasing this gem, we renamed it from Action Native Push to Action Push Native,...
18th Aug 2025
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Introducing Action Push Native

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

18th Aug 2025
Note: Shortly after releasing this gem, we renamed it from Action Native Push to Action Push Native, in case you arrived here looking for the gem of the former name. More details here. We’ve open-sourced Action Push Native, a Rails gem for sending push notifications to mobile...
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the...
4th Jan 2023
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions

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

4th Jan 2023
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye. Geometry and trigonometry were my two best math areas in school (I am not an Algebra person and generally did not enjoy...
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About antisocialne.ws
3rd Apr 2012
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About antisocialne.ws

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2012
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programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
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programming, i hate it

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

1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
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Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement. Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
8th Dec 2024
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Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2024
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools, which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time: Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn Instrumenting metrics...
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2026 The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”,...
29th Sep 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2026

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

29th Sep 2026
The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”, part number 99-35107. Above is a contextual photo of how the unit looked mounted in the kit. And above are a couple examples of projects you can build with the “IC” as part of the...
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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
31st Dec 2021
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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

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

31st Dec 2021
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
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Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
4th Sep 2026
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Most Software Was Already Slop

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

4th Sep 2026
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
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My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
23rd May 2022
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My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects

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

23rd May 2022
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
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Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
5th Apr 2022
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Crypto Twitter

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

5th Apr 2022
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
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a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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a perfect blog editor

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

11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
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The "Opposite Test" Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft...
6th Apr 2008
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The "Opposite Test"

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

6th Apr 2008
Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
7th Sep 2017
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Goodbye CSS Preprocessors

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

7th Sep 2017
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
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Number theory explained from first principles
17th Sep 2022
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Number theory explained from first principles

from Explained from First Principles [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2022
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Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
7th May 2020
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Array 1.4.0

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

7th May 2020
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
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Add captions to your images! Add captions to your images!
5th Sep 2023
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Add captions to your images!

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

5th Sep 2023
Add captions to your images!
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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript) There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a...
18th Aug 2025
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Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript)

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

18th Aug 2025
There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They're not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly...
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds ---
2nd Dec 2017
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Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds

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

2nd Dec 2017
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Review: Red Rain
27th Jun 2025
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Review: Red Rain

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jun 2025
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I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since...
19th Aug 2024
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I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since then, the project has earned me over $15,000. But a few months after releasing it, I was so tired of the maintenance that I wanted to shut it down. Here is a story about my short...
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The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than...
7th Mar 2023
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The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over

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

7th Mar 2023
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than usual. I actually have a number of nearly-complete drafts ready to go, but each is waiting on something. Two of them are posts that I think y’all will hopefully enjoy very much!
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Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
14th Feb 2024
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Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate

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

14th Feb 2024
Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
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Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
20th Feb 2017
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Change at Buffer: The next phase, and why our co-founder and our CTO are moving on

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

20th Feb 2017
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
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Boox Go 10.3, two months in [The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the...
5th Mar 2025
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Boox Go 10.3, two months in

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

5th Mar 2025
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once someone asks for it. And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so 🙂 – Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com Boox in split screen, typewriter mode In...
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What's next As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is...
2nd Aug 2023
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What's next

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

2nd Aug 2023
As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is closed. It was chaotic and tumultuous. But it was also fun and I learned loads about myself, what I'm capable of achieving, and perhaps most importantly what matters to me when it comes...
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Six Weeks Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am...
27th Feb 2026
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Six Weeks

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

27th Feb 2026
Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am finally able to finish and hit publish. Six weeks ago I gave birth to my daughter. In some ways it didn't go according to plan. I had hoped to have a water birth. I imagined arriving...
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How we designed the PostHog mascot Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
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How we designed the PostHog mascot

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

7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
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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...
6th Nov 2023
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature

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

6th Nov 2023
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...
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7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
11th Sep 2023
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7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2023
How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
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Beginning 3D printing A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
28th May 2025
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Beginning 3D printing

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

28th May 2025
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
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@levelsio and survivorship bias Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
20th Oct 2021
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@levelsio and survivorship bias

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

20th Oct 2021
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit. Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
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Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
12th Mar 2020
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Veblen values

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

12th Mar 2020
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
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HIPAA violations
3rd Oct 2023
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HIPAA violations

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2023
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Upgrading the Weber Q Grill I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up...
15th Oct 2018
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Upgrading the Weber Q Grill

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

15th Oct 2018
I’ve owned a Weber Q 1000 for many years and always loved this little grill. I have mine hooked up to a 15 lb propane tank at home where it gets regular use. It is small, but it heats up quickly and cooks food better than any other grill I’ve tried. However, I recently noticed...
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Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds? Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday...
12th Feb 2025
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Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?

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

12th Feb 2025
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not close to done. So now it'll be a blog post sometime later this month. I also just released a new version of...
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Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
5th Feb 2021
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Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2021
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even before starting to write code.
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I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature,...
30th Oct 2015
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I’ll Make an Exception Just for You: Using the Exception Comment to Help Maintain Mature, Large-scale Sass Projects

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

30th Oct 2015
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#30 Bullet “list” Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p>...
13th Jan 2022
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#30 Bullet “list”

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2022
Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item. The “list”...
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Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
1st Oct 2024
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Terminal colours are tricky

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
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2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
29th Dec 2023
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2023: The Rollercoaster

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

29th Dec 2023
Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
27th May 2024
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech

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

27th May 2024
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / 　 づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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Fancier exports Fancier exports
15th Aug 2022
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Fancier exports

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

15th Aug 2022
Fancier exports
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Unforgetful I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework,...
14th Aug 2026
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Unforgetful

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

14th Aug 2026
I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential. I’ll be working on the resulting shame...
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game Endless - A dive into a C64 game
7th Mar 2025
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game

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

7th Mar 2025
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS

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

19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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Review: The Lost Room
6th Aug 2023
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Review: The Lost Room

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2023
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A Beginner's Guide to Continuous Integration in Python Imagine this: you're working on a Python project, and you're annoyed that each time you create a new...
23rd Dec 2023
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A Beginner's Guide to Continuous Integration in Python

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Dec 2023
Imagine this: you're working on a Python project, and you're annoyed that each time you create a new merge (or pull) request, you must remember to run tests. Or maybe you configured your code editor to run black each time you save a file, but your colleagues didn't. Every time...
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I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
3rd Jul 2011
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I have no idea what I am doing

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

3rd Jul 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
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Congrats to IHMC Robotics for winning Bronze in my Humanoid Olympics: Doors Event Round Knob Push Door with a time of 18 Seconds
16th Oct 2025
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Congrats to IHMC Robotics for winning Bronze in my Humanoid Olympics: Doors Event

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Oct 2025
Round Knob Push Door with a time of 18 Seconds
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Intro to Vim Talk I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
16th Jan 2014
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Intro to Vim Talk

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

16th Jan 2014
I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
16th Jan 2021
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)

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

16th Jan 2021
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
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Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
1st Aug 2024
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Recently

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

1st Aug 2024
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
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How to Properly Use Defer in Golang What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows...
1st Jun 2021
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How to Properly Use Defer in Golang

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

1st Jun 2021
What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows developers to delay the execution of a function until the current function returns. What throws some people off is that the deferred function’s arguments are evaluated...
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spacewΛr
13th Oct 2015
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spacewΛr

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Oct 2015
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Scaling by "delegation" isn't good enough Delegation doesn't scale your business. What does: Creating a team that is better than the current...
7th Dec 2025
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Scaling by "delegation" isn't good enough

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

7th Dec 2025
Delegation doesn't scale your business. What does: Creating a team that is better than the current team. Including you.
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Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
21st Sep 2020
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Seeing Like an Algorithm

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

21st Sep 2020
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
4th Sep 2026
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared

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

4th Sep 2026
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
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Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex <![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected...
1st Mar 2026
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Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2026
<![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected files. The initial implementation called the public API for adding commands at the top level of the menu. To later move the item to the See sumbenu that groups various file...
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Upgrading the SwarmTurret A few years ago, I built a Wi-Fi-controlled Nerf turret, but I never got around to creating a proper...
23rd May 2025
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Upgrading the SwarmTurret

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

23rd May 2025
A few years ago, I built a Wi-Fi-controlled Nerf turret, but I never got around to creating a proper build guide for it. When I finally sat down to write one, I realized just how many things I would do differently. That realization quickly snowballed into a full redesign—and the...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
1st Jan 2023
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022

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

1st Jan 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
24th Apr 2020
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A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket

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

24th Apr 2020
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
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Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
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Leaving Stripe

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

6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
16th Dec 2025
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
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September 2020
1st Sep 2020
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September 2020

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

1st Sep 2020
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Colophon Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
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Colophon

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation details than the first post of a...
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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word...
26th Feb 2026
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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ

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

26th Feb 2026
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the...
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Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
3rd Jan 2024
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Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm

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

3rd Jan 2024
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
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The StarCraft path-finding hack Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...
20th Feb 2013
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The StarCraft path-finding hack

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2013
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2026 It’s four years since I bought a printer. I thought I would provide an update on running costs,...
a week ago
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2026

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
It’s four years since I bought a printer. I thought I would provide an update on running costs, print sales, and profit. I’m happy to be completely transparent about all this as I know it can be difficult to figure this out if you are thinking of creating your own printing...
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A eulogy for my 20s
24th Jan 2016
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A eulogy for my 20s

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jan 2016
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Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about...
10th Jul 2017
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Designers Need Thicker Skin

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

10th Jul 2017
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
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Trouble with Diaspora
17th Sep 2010
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Trouble with Diaspora

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2010
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Building Elm with Stack
21st Sep 2017
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Building Elm with Stack

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2017
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On becoming a day person My biggest game-changer
19th Mar 2026
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On becoming a day person

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

19th Mar 2026
My biggest game-changer
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How To Name Things > There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
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How To Name Things

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

16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
2nd Aug 2020
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator

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

2nd Aug 2020
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
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What is good code?
4th Jan 2020
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What is good code?

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

4th Jan 2020
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How to Manifest a Meetup > 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now...
15th Jul 2022
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How to Manifest a Meetup

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

15th Jul 2022
> 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written How to Organize Meetups Good on Dx.tips
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rabbit hole learning Look everything up Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from...
9th Mar 2025
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rabbit hole learning

from seated.ro [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2025
Look everything up Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from suprressing your innate curosity and let it go wild. Most of the time, you will encounter a term or concept that you do not know, instead of glancing at it briefly, go all in. Google it,...
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Three attempts at making payments secure In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and...
16th Jul 2025
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Three attempts at making payments secure

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2025
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. The post Three attempts at making payments secure appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Announcing What Can’t I Press? I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through...
15th Jun 2026
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Announcing What Can’t I Press?

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

15th Jun 2026
I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through screen reader keyboard shortcuts. Scan open apps and add their keyboard shortcuts to the collection. Copy a keyboard shortcut to your clipboard, with modifier keys to format the...
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Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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Over-Nesting

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

6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
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Making games in Go with Ebitengine Like a lot of people, you may be using Go at work to develop backend applications or create...
6th Jan 2026
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Making games in Go with Ebitengine

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

6th Jan 2026
Like a lot of people, you may be using Go at work to develop backend applications or create infrastructure tools. But you may not be aware that you can actually make video games in Go using Ebitengine. gomding Just enough to make games Ebitengine aims at being dead simple. It...
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How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
9th Jul 2024
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How To Know When It's Time To Go

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

9th Jul 2024
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
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2022 Book Roundup In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books...
29th Dec 2022
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2022 Book Roundup

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

29th Dec 2022
In 2021 I only read 6 out of 12 books for my reading challenge. Though to be fair, 4 of those books were 900-1000+ page books (The final 4 books of The Wheel of Time). In 2020 I read even less, but pre-2020 I was reading upwards of 24 books a year. In an effort to try to get back...
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Thoughts on being a good manager Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
9th Feb 2015
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Thoughts on being a good manager

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

9th Feb 2015
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
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L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
7th Jun 2010
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L'Insurrection qui vient

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

7th Jun 2010
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
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Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
1st Sep 2024
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Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund

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

1st Sep 2024
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
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Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively...
27th Jul 2022
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Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box

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

27th Jul 2022
I had a bunch of thoughts yesterday about the Zettelkasten method and how I could use it effectively to manage my knowledge base. I started the day by dumping my thoughts into Logseq. Here they are. These are open questions for now. I plan to investigate this further and try out...
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Make Beautiful Gradients Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
11th Jan 2022
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Make Beautiful Gradients

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

11th Jan 2022
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups

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

4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
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Berkeley Mono February Update Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
6th Feb 2022
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Berkeley Mono February Update

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

6th Feb 2022
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated. Here is a quick update on the progress: Website - Berkeleygraphics.com It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
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How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so,...
5th May 2021
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How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter

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

5th May 2021
One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so, I’ve slowly grown its Twitter followers to 10,000+. Now, before I get into it, there’s some things worth pointing out: This work was built on top of the efforts of the project...
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React server components in Reason & OCaml
1st Jan 2024
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React server components in Reason & OCaml

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

1st Jan 2024
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer The most stressful period of my career.
5th Sep 2020
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer

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

5th Sep 2020
The most stressful period of my career.
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The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 10 June 2022 I have been deep in learning mode the last 3 weeks learning about all the things API related. Or...
12th Jun 2022
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The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 10 June 2022

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

12th Jun 2022
I have been deep in learning mode the last 3 weeks learning about all the things API related. Or attempting to. Everyone at RapidAPI has been pretty fantastic about helping me understand how things work and what the developers who use our tools do. Every time I try to get started...
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ephemerons vs generations in whippet Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they...
9th Jan 2025
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ephemerons vs generations in whippet

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2025
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
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Squash and Stretch Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore...
13th Apr 2026
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Squash and Stretch

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

13th Apr 2026
Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.
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