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Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step...
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You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step left, but they're thinking the same thing and take a step to their right, aka your left. You're still blocking each other. Then you take a step to the right, and they take a step to...
David Heinemeier...
Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many...
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I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many miserable days in the throes of sneezing, headache, and runny eyes. I tried everything the doctors recommended for relief. About a million different types of medicine, several bouts...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
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over a year ago
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
Eric Bailey
Building a Good Download… Button?
over a year ago
dthompson
Chickadee 0.6.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
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over a year ago
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills....
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over a year ago
We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills. Let's take a break and look at some examples from real-world code you can find in use today, and how we might improve them. › Go's math/big package Most languages have a library...
macwright.com
How could you make a scalable online geospatial editor? by I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not...
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I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not founding another geo startup anytime soon. I’d love to found another bootstrapped startup eventually, but geospatial is hard. Anyway, geospatial data is big, which does not combine well...
A Smart Bear
SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all...
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How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all that "revenue acceleration?" Here's a way.
Eric Bailey
<code>contrast-color()</code> is a good thing, but also solving the problem at the wrong layer Browsers are a failure of imagination. I understand that new browser features and functionality need...
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Browsers are a failure of imagination. I understand that new browser features and functionality need to be rolled out with care, in that you need to accommodate a wide range of technological literacy and familiarity. This is to say nothing of built-up muscle memory and the risk...
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
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I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
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100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
7 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to better handle stress in a startup? Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on your journey. The […] The post How to better handle stress in a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Why Startups Should Build Their Own Models The importance of startups training their own AI models for differentiation and control.
a year ago
Making software...
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Blog of Simple...
Why Meta subscriptions are under attack, and why it matters for privacy
a year ago
charity.wtf
On Dropouts and Bootstraps In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all...
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In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all quite good at their jobs, all college dropouts. We developed a shared conviction that only losers got computer science degrees. This sounds like a joke, or a self-defense mechanism,...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
On being “currently based anywhere” Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating...
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over a year ago
Currently based anywhere. That’s what I landed on when I changed the copy on my homepage indicating that I was based out of Atlanta. I…
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
over a year ago
David Gerrells
journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
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over a year ago
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
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When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
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PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
bunnie's blog
Automated Stitching of Chip Images This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS...
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This is the final post in a series about non-destructively inspecting chips with the IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. Here are links to previous posts: This post will cover the software used to stitch together smaller images generated by the control software into a single...
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
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In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
TokyoDev
Writing Developer Job Postings When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
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When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes to Self on Mastodon Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to...
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Disclaimer: I still don’t fully understand the mechanics of Mastodon. But this is my attempt to articulate what I do understand in a way that helps me better understand the differences — and similarities — between Twitter and Mastodon, especially when it comes to owning more of...
A Smart Bear
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts...
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I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney, who I...
Alex Meub
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...
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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...
Epic Web Dev
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Flaky Tests (article) Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw...
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Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw away, to manage and fix them effectively.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about...
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I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we’re online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta1 release
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes and Reflections from Rich Harris’ Talk Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready...
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Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready to take notes as we go. Whatever Framework You’re Using, It’s Fine Note: that’s coming from the author of a framework! Rich points out that most of the degraded, slow, hostile...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSC, Localfirst, and Coordination Between Multiple Computers Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which...
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Dan Abramov gave a talk at ReactConf called “React for two computers” (starts at ~5:14:00) which gives the conceptual background around how the team came up with the idea for React Server Components (RSC)[1]. I found the talk intriguing. It’s like watching someone take something...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ingredients from Alex's Studies This page summarizes a bunch of studies that I’ve done in the past few months. Rather than discuss...
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over a year ago
This page summarizes a bunch of studies that I’ve done in the past few months. Rather than discuss each study separately, I group them into “ingredients” (each explored in one or more studies) that may turn out to be useful for upcoming projects.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
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“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
David Crawshaw
2015-05-07
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Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
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Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
HTMHell
Boosting testing efficiency: how semantic HTML transforms End-to-End testing by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human...
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by Stefania Mellai Semantic and accessible HTML serves as a powerful tool, enhancing not only human interaction but also the efficiency of software systems. For instance, when users fill out forms with clear labels and accessible input fields, this reduces errors and ensures...
Joel Gascoigne
What is your coming soon page for? > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark...
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over a year ago
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I think one of these assumptions which needs to be questioned is the initial few steps people
A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
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If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
Steve Klabnik
Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
over a year ago
elementary Blog
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
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It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays! Terminal The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
Contraption Co.
What worked for finding a software engineering job Retro on my recent job search
3 months ago
TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
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What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
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Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
PostHog's RSS Feed
Open source (and self-hosted) alternatives to Hotjar & FullStory Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture....
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Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
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October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
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Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week. One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
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One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps [https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
Joel Gascoigne
Expert of nothing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most interesting and simultaneously challenging realizations I’ve had is that as a founder, especially the CEO, you essentially have chosen to never become an expert of anything. Oh,...
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Why we won't hire a junior with five years of experience We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last...
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We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last hired a junior, but the real reason the listing is turning heads is because we're open about the yearly salary: $145,849*. That's high enough that programmers with lots of experience...
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Making software...
Stop Using Hamburger Menus Stop Using Hamburger Menus 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus...
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Stop Using Hamburger Menus 2023-05-04 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don't actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep using them in...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
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I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
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At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
Steve Klabnik
An API ontology
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we learned about hiring from our first five employees Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five...
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over a year ago
Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five hires PostHog ever made, how we made them, and why…
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer. Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical...
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Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical copies will be available in March. Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon, and read the full digital release on O’Reilly. (You can preorder physical...
macwright.com
patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
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a year ago
Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm. Remember patch-package....
The Pragmatic...
Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Knowledge Workers? Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at...
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Critical thinking will only become more important as AI tools spread more. How can you get better at this, and why should you reject jargon and "thought leaders?"
Josh Comeau's blog
Hands-Free Coding Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately,...
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
UI=f(org): UI is a Function of Your Organization The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision...
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a year ago
The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision of detail you want in tracking your order: Your order has been received Your pizza is being prepped Your pizza is in the oven Your pizza is being checked for quality by...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
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over a year ago
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
Kagi Blog
Celebrating 50K users with Kagi free search portal, Kagi for libraries, and more... Just last week, we celebrated three years since Kagi was launched.
3 weeks ago
Don Melton
How not to blog First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
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over a year ago
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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over a year ago
My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Nuance of “Domain” I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links...
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I love visualizations like this: That was my mental model of URLs until I indexed my blog’s links and realized there’s more to “domain” than initially meets the eye. What is a “Domain”? Let’s say you have a URL like this: https://example.com Put it in the URL constructor and...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
7 months ago
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I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
Making software...
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup 2020-08-16 I don't like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech...
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over a year ago
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup 2020-08-16 I don't like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech (within reason), so I try to find a new purpose for some of my "retired" devices. This article will cover how to switch over a mid-2011 model MacBook Air to utilize Linux...
ByteofDev
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please? A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer...
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a month ago
A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer explaining how motivated they were to make buying easy. Like, incredibly easy. So easy, in fact, that their goal was to “reduce your time to think a little bit more critically about a...
Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About Innovations outside the AI spotlight
7 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator” In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
The History of the...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
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On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
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The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
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I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”. It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
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How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
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Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
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Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
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So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ New Jet Brains interface We're professionals. We can...
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Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
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When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
macwright.com
codemirror-continue by Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and...
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Wrote and released codemirror-continue today. When you’re writing a block comment in TypeScript and you hit “Enter”, this intelligently adds a * on the next line. Most likely, your good editor (Neovim, VS Code) already has this behavior and you miss it in CodeMirror. So I wrote...
bt RSS Feed
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
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How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in git as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian...
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as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian Second Brain, I have recently run into this issue a lot:
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
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David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Steve Klabnik
A sad day for Rust
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A Beautiful Site
Down with the share widget! In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with...
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In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with friends and followers. This really isn't a bad thing, but how you go about encouraging them can actually be discouraging. The rise of the "share" widget # Six years ago, Twitter wasn't...
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There are no secrets left First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe...
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First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
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What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
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PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
A Beautiful Site
Code can change As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me,...
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As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me, you might get stressed out about the thought of people looking at your work and critiquing or criticizing your app's design. Take a deep breath, recenter, and remember that code...
Nelson's Weblog
Non-alcoholic apéritifs I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage...
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I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening. Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with lunch. I found some good options. Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia is an NA...
Hixie's Natural Log
Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
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Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
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Five big open source gifts from us in 2023 It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
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There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
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Facebook data transfers declared illegal
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Daniel Marino
My current prototyping environment The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them....
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The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them. My prototyping environment has evolved over the years. I love to hear how others build prototypes, so I thought I’d share where I’m at now. Maybe you’ll find it useful. A single...
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A systematic approach to debugging I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird...
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I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger. It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk1 after it goes through another skilled engineer or two. To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here...
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How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
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We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
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What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
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Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you’re wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
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The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
David Crawshaw
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Winner, Name that Ware November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it,...
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The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it, email me for your prize! Here’s some more images of the ware for your enjoyment.
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Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power. A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
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A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Vadim Kravcenko
The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
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I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements. Contents California Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Controller Treasurer Insurance Commissioner United...
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Improving SEO without knowing where to start Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast...
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Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast rules Conclusion Introduction ↑ Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
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[Renovated] Can you tell an assembly language when you see one? An interactive quiz featuring several obscure high-level languages and assembly variants.
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macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
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An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
Steve Klabnik
I'm quitting Hacker News
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Learning to accept defeat against reality A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing...
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A great many smart people terminably hamper their ability to better understand the world by refusing to accept defeat when reality proves them wrong. Armed with an intellect that's at once both too proud to recognize it's own failings and cunningly capable of producing...
Epic Web Dev
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Confessions of a...
Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB Watch now (20 mins) | Learn how to inspect registers, step through instructions, and investigate...
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Tony Finch's blog
Unix version control lore: what, ident There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
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There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident. They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from, without having to run it – handy if it is a library! keyword expansion SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
Computer Things
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...
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Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2022 The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry...
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The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry was a bit tough, but I think maybe I hit a balance between leaving enough clues, and giving it away. We’ll see shortly! I have a lot more to say about this ware: I will give proper...
bunnie's blog
Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a...
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I had the misfortune of setting up a Windows 11 machine and being confronted with creating a mandatory Microsoft account. I can’t concisely explain why being forced to create an account bothers me so much, but generally when a vendor tries this hard to get you to do something,...
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
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Stuff I've been working on It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a...
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It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on. Meme...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
Joel Gascoigne
Ratio thinking * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve found difficult to completely embrace, but which understanding has been super important, is the idea that there is a ratio for everything. I’ve started to call this Ratio Thinking,...
Joel Gascoigne
How my co-founder and I structure ourselves as CEO and COO * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two years of Buffer we didn’t use C-level titles [https://soundcloud.com/joelgascoigne/thoughts-on-cxo-titles-in]. In February last year it started to make much more sense for me to...
Sometimes It Works...
Spelunking desktop apps saves time Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the...
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the bookmarks plist 2. Update the Tower database 3. Open Tower Lessons ¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time ¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
Irrational...
Should we decompose our monolith? From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a...
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From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make. Even migrating to a...
beep.blog
I've been over-brewing my coffee Bloody hell, James Hoffmann's ultimate AeroPress technique is good.
over a year ago
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
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After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app: 📁 project ├─ 📁 app | ├─ 📁 src | └─ 📄 package.json └─ 📁 storybook ├─ 📁 .storybook | ├─ 📄 main.js | └─ 📄 preview.js └─ 📄...
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
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After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s...
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Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit. The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product, as well as...
Maggie Appleton
Common Misconceptions in AI Common Misconceptions About the Complexity in Robotics vs AI by Dan Ogawa
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Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
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One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
Irrational...
Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy,...
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Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy, with a particular focus on the methods wielded by McKinsey consultants, software engineering mainstays like Thoughtworks, and philosophy. A valuable read for anyone looking to build...
David Crawshaw
Software I’m thankful for Software I’m thankful for 2021-11-25 A few of the things that come to mind, this thanksgiving. Most...
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Software I’m thankful for 2021-11-25 A few of the things that come to mind, this thanksgiving. Most Unix-ish APIs, from files to sockets are a bit of a mess today. Endless poorly documented sockopts, unexpected changes in write semantics across FSs and OSes, good luck trying to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
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Stefan Judis on Twitter: I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off. The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔 I’ve been thinking...
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
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The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
Joel Gascoigne
Don&#x27;t register your idea as a company * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
bt RSS Feed
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
macwright.com
2025 Predictions I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial...
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I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial to AI The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again...
over a year ago
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The Ware for January 2023 is a front-end readout board from the KASCADE muon detector. Thanks again to cpresser for contributing the ware, and also congratulations to AZeta for nailing it! email me for your prize.
Making software...
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I'd like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
Maggie Appleton
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole Notes on the metaphorical varieties of synecdoche and metonymy
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The ops toolkit for early-stage startups Ok, so you’ve read Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things , but what are all the boring...
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Ok, so you’ve read Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things , but what are all the boring admin things that are actually going to drain 4…
The Changelog
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
over a year ago
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“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
the singularity is...
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
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Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
Nelson's Weblog
Seven slaves, a marker I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I...
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I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I learned there were more, at least seven. This marker comes courtesy of Find-a-Grave. It's on a small family cemetery near Bagwell, TX. I'm not positive but I think the land is...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
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The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
Eric Bailey
How 3 hours of conversation saved a company hundreds of thousands of dollars
over a year ago
The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
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Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
The Changelog
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
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Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
The Codist
Looks Good To Me: When Code Reviews Go Awry Code reviews can effectively improve code quality in large or mixed teams with experience...
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Code reviews can effectively improve code quality in large or mixed teams with experience differences. They can also be useless if not done correctly or if management does not support the time to do them. A code review is a modern invention, as the technology to do them easily...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
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Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers: Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
Elad Blog
Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
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Visit for a surprise Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility...
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Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Success Criterion 2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context) instructs us to ensure that a link’s accessible name makes sense when separated from its surrounding context. It’s why...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-23 Mon: activity More Edna porting.
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Eric Bailey
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David Heinemeier...
Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
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This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
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You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Matz is nice so we are nice
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A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7 We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
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over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5. Except now there's talk about another major...
A Smart Bear
Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value) The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
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Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and...
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A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI. And to do custom handling of it. So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them. But... I'm going...
The Pragmatic...
Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud - Exclusive An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud...
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over a year ago
An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud strategy, and whether or not to onboard to the cloud.
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
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During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
Florian Bellmann |...
Time to market for personal projects How I created my blog in just 2 days.
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Blog of Simple...
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
over a year ago
charity.wtf
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...
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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...
Epic Web Dev
Text and Image Clipping Effects (tip)
a year ago
Acko.net
Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
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3 months ago
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
macwright.com
Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
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Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
Marco.org
Why it’s hard to read the time on Infograph Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple...
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over a year ago
Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple Watch’s new default Infograph face, you’re not alone: John Gruber finds it “far too busy” Jason Snell finds it “pretty and packed with features”, but misses hour numerals Zac Hall...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
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over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Computer Things
Why I prefer rST to markdown I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here. This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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over a year ago
Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
Seldo.com
Shoes
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Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field Figma, AI, Design, & Education
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
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On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […] The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
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I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Yale e360
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
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over a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year. They're cliche, but they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
dthompson
How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for...
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Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows or via a web...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 01 · Welcome to the Keyhive An introduction to the Keyhive project
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David Heinemeier...
Serving the country In 1940, President Roosevelt tapped William S. Knudsen to run the government's production of...
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In 1940, President Roosevelt tapped William S. Knudsen to run the government's production of military equipment. Knudsen had spent a pivotal decade at Ford during the mass-production revolution, and was president of General Motors, when he was drafted as a civilian into service...
David Heinemeier...
We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to...
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10 months ago
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet The problem Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay) Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Recently, I read a blog post about doing software project estimates. It's a reasonable post with a reasonable method. But it does what all estimates do: it sells projects short. I don't mean in the sense of underestimating a young promising project's potential, relegating it to...
Blog of Simple...
Simple Analytics: Privacy-first website analytics
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Joining Arcol
over a year ago
Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
Engineer’s Codex
10 lessons from successful one-person startups I interviewed 7 indie hackers and full-time SWEs with side ventures for their insights.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
a year ago
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a year ago
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia. It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera. It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down: I've...
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
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a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
TokyoDev
Bringing Your Family to Japan My son often walks a few blocks to the convenience store to buy a snack. His friends bike to our...
a year ago
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a year ago
My son often walks a few blocks to the convenience store to buy a snack. His friends bike to our house to play. And as my daughter’s coming home from school, the neighbors no longer say “Konnichiwa,” when she passes. They call out “Okaeri!” which means “Welcome home!” I’ve...
Eric Bailey
Saying thank you Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that isn’t being strangled by malignant forces. This includes the web. It's been a long time since the altruistic early web—putting content out there for the its own sake. The web...
TokyoDev
Working as a Filipino Software Developer in Japan It felt like a fever dream when I got the job offer to move to Japan. *This was it*, I thought. *My...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It felt like a fever dream when I got the job offer to move to Japan. *This was it*, I thought. *My chance to rebrand myself and seek better opportunities*. I was twenty when I left my entire life behind in my hometown in the municipality of Kalibo to get a shot at working for...
Nelson's Weblog
Obsidian Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
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a year ago
Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote, Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
Joel Gascoigne
Questions I ask myself about working as distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often ponder how I can help the team be as productive and happy as possible. As part of our decision to be a distributed team at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], there have been a number...
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day...
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9 months ago
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Love For Interoperable Apps I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of interoperability — standardized protocols, data formats, etc. When I can bring my data from one app to another, that’s cool. Cool apps are interoperable. They work with my data, rather than...
Blog of Simple...
Closing the data gap - Simple Analytics x Usercentrics
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A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better? My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the...
a year ago
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a year ago
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
Maggie Appleton
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat
over a year ago
Blog System/5
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
On Test Automation
My terms and conditions for using AI Last weekend, I wrote a more or less casual post on LinkedIn containing the ‘rules’ (it’s more of a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Last weekend, I wrote a more or less casual post on LinkedIn containing the ‘rules’ (it’s more of a list of terms and conditions, really) I set for myself when it comes to using AI. That post received some interesting comments that made me think and refine my thoughts on when...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Narrow Waists When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the somewhat obscure "Internet Architecture" model of the different technology layers ([my notes here](https://dev.to/swyx/networking-essentials-architecture-and-principles-2g5e)):
macwright.com
Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some frontend libraries, like CodeMirror, have UIs like autocompletion, tools, or popovers, that are triggered by typing text or hovering your mouse cursor, and disappear when that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
Steve Klabnik
Did you hear? I'm Ruby Mendicant University's first visiting teacher
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words? It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
Nelson's Weblog
New linkblog website I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog is a collection of links I find interesting. I write it for an audience, a few links a day of general interest. I've been doing this for 19 years now and I think it's one of the...
Maggie Appleton
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks How to build a digital garden without touching code
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer's Guide to Tech Strategy This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a _very_ high level overview of tech strategy; that is, the _business of software_ rather than the art and science of creating software itself.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive introduction to iterative algorithms An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit condition problem on an oversimplified linear system solver.
somenice
Golden Glide Silhouette This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Formats over Functions Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
over a year ago
sancho.dev
Server-side rendering React in OCaml
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
The Pragmatic...
An educational side project What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
over a year ago
Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
Posts on Nikita...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
TokyoDev
Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
Josh Comeau's blog
Announcing “use-sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Source Code for Life v0.1 Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
over a year ago
HTMHell
What the slot? by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used to. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework HTML Web Components: An Example Material web components 1.0 release HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? Web Components...
Oxide Computer...
Hubris and Humility When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for example, that we wanted to have a true hardware root of trust and that we wanted to revisit the traditional BMC. We knew, too, that we would have our own system software on each...
Blog of Simple...
German authority cracks down on cookie banners
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip) A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
over a year ago
ByteofDev
Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...
3 months ago
Maggie Appleton
A Digital Anthropology Reading List A few favourite books from the field of digital anthropology
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
Making software...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the second article in my achieving overnight success [https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
Maggie Appleton
A Meta-Tour of This Site A video tour through how I build the old version of this site
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2024 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2024 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The 2024 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. All questions are optional, and we expect it to take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey will be open until September 30th. Last...
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
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ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can...
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I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can browse collections of icons that share pre-defined metadata (e.g. “Show me all icons tagged as blue”) but I can’t create your own arbitrary collections of icons. That is, until...
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
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Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built!...
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I recently launched a brand new version of this blog, and in this post, I share how it’s built! We’ll examine the tech stack and see how all of the pieces fit together, as well as dig into some of the details to see how they work.
TokyoDev
The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my...
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For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my first two decades in this country, I went from one extreme to the other: from seeing English as important here, to regarding it as a niche, inessential aspect of Japanese life. My...
Ferd.ca
The Review Is the Action Item 2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
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2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
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It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
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I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
alexwlchan
Drawing a better bandwidth graph for Netlify I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per...
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I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per month. That’s usually plenty, and I’ve only exceeded it a few times – this site is mostly text, and I only have a modest audience. I can see how much bandwidth I’ve used in the...
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser &rarr; As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
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As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
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“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI <![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common...
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<![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common Lisp. I added two new short public functions, GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW and GUI:PRINT-MESSAGE, and fixed a bug in some internal code. GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW deletes the text of the window...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search features *New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
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*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
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The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy. Recently, I’ve been looking...
Eric Bailey
Using a folder other than <code>posts/</code> with Eleventy I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more...
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I just updated this site to use Eleventy. I don’t update enchilada that much anymore. It’s now more a place to centralize all the little tweaks and gotchas of web work, and less a platform for scaffolding websites. In all honestly, enchilada was intended more to be more a simple...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most...
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2 months ago
After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most frustrating thing about dipping in to the FE is that it seems like literally everything is deprecated. Lol, so true. From the same comment, here’s a description of a day in the life of a...
James Vaughan's blog
Jay Kamat
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
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Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
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High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms. In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
Sometimes It Works...
Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
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I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 003: OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we’re spotlighting Alexander Obenauer’s work on the future of personal computing...
a year ago
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In this dispatch we’re spotlighting Alexander Obenauer’s work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
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A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2022 The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
over a year ago
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The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger...
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Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia? Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts. Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design...
Sometimes It Works...
Breaking the Chain Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your...
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Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application Requirements Problems Solutions Explicitly store the current Builder in the model Results ¶Breaking the Chain ¶Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application I’ve got to admit I’ve...
General Robots
What's With All the Humanoid Robots? If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
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If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
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I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. This release introduces breaking changes that overhaul the client and server implementations in...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
over a year ago
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If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
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Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
Maggie Appleton
March 2025
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macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
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The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
Sometimes It Works...
Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Start With an SPA Some history, some context When does an SPA make sense? So, why are SPAs bad again? Your front-end...
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Some history, some context When does an SPA make sense? So, why are SPAs bad again? Your front-end and back-end get decoupled! It may hurt customisability Performance will suffer So what's the alternative? I came across this interesting article by @gregnavis the other day. I...
Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
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When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
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For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
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Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
a year ago
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How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Bayesian Inference Or, the unreasonable effectiveness of dumb rules
over a year ago