Confessions of a...
Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code
A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
8 months ago
A look at the internals of list implementation in CPython to understand this weird quirk about them
Founder's blog
Please stop using Any() for C# Lists and Arrays
I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the...
a year ago
I'm here to talk about C# performance optimization (again). And about why you should stop using the .Any() LINQ method with Lists and Arrays and embrace the old-school .Count and .Length instead. Don't want to point any fingers, but I see people do it all the time, even in...
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
over a year ago
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
a year ago
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search
by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of
C++ code implementing a binary search:
template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
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Why we're removing the sessions page
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain...
over a year ago
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users…
Confessions of a...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
2 months ago
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful...
a year ago
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you!
And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools.
I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
Making software...
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But...
over a year ago
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the "Linux Desktop". I really do. But I've come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
a week ago
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
Basta’s Notes
No hassle detected!
The importance of tools
4 months ago
Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-10-03
This article was updated on October 11, 2022
I'm a big...
over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-10-03
This article was updated on October 11, 2022
I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
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Animated Card Tiles
Animated Card Tiles
2019-02-27
The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive...
over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles
2019-02-27
The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let’s build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS.
What we will be building (live...
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team
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over a year ago
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[https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed]
I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
4 months ago
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments.
In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
a year ago
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
Maggie Appleton
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify
2021-01-19
It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Alex Meub
S3 Website Out Of Memory Error
I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything...
over a year ago
I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket.
The command would hang for a really long...
Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week.
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
11 months ago
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...
Words and Buttons...
Using logical operators for logical operations is good
A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the...
over a year ago
A folow up on a guessing game with C++ operators. Let's redo a few rounds. The benchmark is the same, the questions are the same. The compiler is the same. The only thing that changes is the platform. This is now CHIP with ARMv7.
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk
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over a year ago
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A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I
want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I
recommend starting it if you find that
Miguel Carranza
Books I read in 2020
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
over a year ago
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
Don Melton
Sorry, we’re closed
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
a year ago
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway.
I still have a passion for making...
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
6 months ago
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
Liz Denys
Chemistry at its finest: inverted sugar syrup for cocktails
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily...
over a year ago
Simple syrup finds its home in any well-stocked bar because sometimes sugar doesn't dissolve easily enough. Simple syrup is traditionally made by dissolving white sugar into water on a stove and then cooling before use, but sometimes, in a pinch, people will shake superfine sugar...
ntietz.com blog
Working with Rust in (neo)vim
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code.
My first introduction to it was...
over a year ago
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code.
My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers.
Why he told us that, I have no idea.
But...
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
a year ago
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
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...
over a year ago
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...
Explained from First...
The Internet explained from first principles
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Text Prompts Circumscribe The Surface Area of Possible Solutions
I was reading Chase McCoy’s notes about Figma’s move into the AI space and this one line stuck out...
5 months ago
I was reading Chase McCoy’s notes about Figma’s move into the AI space and this one line stuck out to me (emphasis mine):
Generating UI designs from scratch, based on a text prompt
This reminded me of my note from a Wall Street Journal interview with Jony Ive where he talks about...
Kagi Blog
Orion browser features
Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with...
over a year ago
Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features.
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build a community around your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to
be worth what you're...
7 months ago
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to
be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll
face as a newly independent worker.
37signals Dev
The radiating programmer
You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems....
a year ago
You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems. You dislike meetings and ceremony. Here’s what you can do to maximize what you like and minimize what you don’t: radiate information.
The daily standup meetings that Scrum...
Maggie Appleton
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022)
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
a year ago
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
A Beautiful Site
Lessons from a failed Kickstarter
Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign....
over a year ago
Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign. We had 50 backers and were 5% funded. So why would I do this with 25 days left to go?
The fact is, this campaign failed before it started, and it was all my fault. I became so...
Josh Comeau's blog
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2 weeks ago
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network
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over a year ago
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We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]
where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10
months the team consisted of just...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Working on a virtualenv without magic
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
Making software...
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a...
over a year ago
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line
2022-09-20
Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both?
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his...
9 months ago
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his parents:
My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket. I find myself having to go over to their house and do things like switch...
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...
8 months 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...
Joel Gascoigne
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
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over a year ago
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Whilst building my latest startup, which I’m glad to say is picking up nicely,
there have been times when things have started to go a little crazy. It might be
being featured in a big blog, lots...
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
Liz Denys
Hardbrücke, Zürich
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
over a year ago
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
Joel Gascoigne
Treat it as finished
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over a year ago
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One of the most important differences for me personally in how I’ve run my
current startup compared to the last one I founded has been how I treat the
product at each stage of the process. With...
Ferd.ca
Carrots, sticks, and making things worse
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.
Every...
2 months ago
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.
Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
over a year ago
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
Joel Gascoigne
Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it.
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over a year ago
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> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -
Aristotle
I’ve been obsessed with thinking about, adjusting and building upon my habits
for a long time now, and...
A Smart Bear
When should a decision be fast, or slow?
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really...
a year ago
Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
over a year ago
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Making software...
Stop Using Hamburger Menus
Stop Using Hamburger Menus
2023-05-04
I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus...
a year ago
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...
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
5 months ago
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore.
Everyone will eventually reach a point at
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
a year ago
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
6 months ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
ntietz.com blog
Rust allows redeclaring local variables to great benefit
A lot of programming languages allow variable shadowing in new scopes.
Early on, you learn that it...
a year ago
A lot of programming languages allow variable shadowing in new scopes.
Early on, you learn that it can cause errors and can be confusing, but is situationally appropriate sometimes.
Something that's less commonly allowed is redeclaring variables to shadow them locally.
And when...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
over a year ago
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Organic Intelligence
Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
6 months ago
Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them:
If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles
As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
a year ago
As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
Dan Slimmon
Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
a year ago
Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
Posts on Nikita...
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to...
over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands.
Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
3 months ago
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
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Unofficial VS Code Snippets for AWS Amplify
making my own vs code snippets helpers for working with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
making my own vs code snippets helpers for working with AWS Amplify
Posts on Nikita...
Switching From C++ to Rust
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages.
Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
A Beautiful Site
SVG has a logo
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together...
over a year ago
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together matching logos for CSS. But did you know that SVG also has an official logo, and it's—flowery?
The W3C describes it as:
The flower-like structure of the SVG logo evokes creativity and...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
8 months ago
Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Useful Heuristics
A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior...
over a year ago
A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior and decision making.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
over a year ago
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it?
You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
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
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...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
over a year ago
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder.
2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git...
a year ago
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns
out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs,
GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9.
But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Web
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
7 months ago
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
over a year ago
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
over a year ago
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
Irrational...
Writers who operate.
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
a year ago
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
Joel on Software
Strange and maddening rules
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get...
over a year ago
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code was supposed to work. Read more "Strange and maddening rules"
A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
12 hours ago
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a name?
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it.
Keeping Things...
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Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users
In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
over a year ago
In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me...
over a year ago
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold.
But I still got some work done that I'm proud of.
More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
The Pragmatic...
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in...
a year ago
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Epic Web Dev
Contribute an Epic Stack Example (tip)
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
a year ago
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course...
10 months ago
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its
competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years
will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
10 months ago
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
Steve Klabnik
How do you find the time?
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Hold back on some of the sweet tooth: citrus almond poundcake
When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in...
over a year ago
When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in Mark Bittman's column, I realized that it had been too long since I had even eaten poundcake. Further, this one was flavored like oranges and marzipan - two of my favorite flavors -...
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The Upload (short story)
My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
8 months ago
My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is...
7 months ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned.
I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post
about it. These introductory sections...
Steve Klabnik
Too many words about Rust's function syntax
a year ago
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3 months ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
over a year ago
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
over a year ago
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or...
3 months ago
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or
be useful at a fundamental level.
Vadim Kravcenko
How much a CTO makes and where can I find CTO Jobs?
Question:
Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in...
7 months ago
Question:
Here's the thing, I’m kind of stuck trying to figure out what a CTO actually makes in terms of $$$, most of the people in the field are secretive about how much they're getting. It's not just about the money (okay, it's a bit about the money), but also understanding if...
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with anyone.
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2022 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions
after weeks of struggle, I...
over a year ago
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions
after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing
integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped).
That code wasn't messing with memory much...
Maggie Appleton
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
ntietz.com blog
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
9 months ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion.
I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on.
It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are.
This project is...
Kevin Chen
Tearing down the Rewind app
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
a year ago
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
a year ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […]
The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Epic Web Dev
Prisma Typed SQL Queries (tip)
3 months ago
Liz Denys
My favorite secret to baking healthier: white whole wheat flour
Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people...
over a year ago
Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people seem to be wondering how to generally add more whole grains to their diets. This doesn't come as much of a surprise: whole grains haven't had their bran and germ removed through...
Tony Finch's blog
Joining ellipses with matching tangents
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join...
10 months ago
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°.
I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses.
As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to
experiment with the problem. I got...
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use.
When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well...
I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too.
So, here's my software...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱.
Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Alex MacCaw
The AI is coming
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
over a year ago
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test.
In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
PostHog's RSS Feed
CEO diary: The things I learned in 2022
It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for...
a year ago
It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for PostHog. Here's my personal perspective on how it…
ntietz.com blog
Fiction as a lens into technological change
The world is changing right now.
We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact...
a year ago
The world is changing right now.
We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact on almost every field, and we could see anything from minor efficiency gains to catastrophic AI apocalypses to mass disruption of many jobs.
The cone of possibility is wide, and...
TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan
Japan's [Employment Security...
over a year ago
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder
Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from...
over a year ago
Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from Porto. We uploaded a highlight reel of the retreat to…
macwright.com
Web pages and video games
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
8 months ago
An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons:
Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
David Heinemeier...
Introducing Omakub
Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a...
6 months ago
Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a rite of passage in certain parts of the community where becoming an expert in the intricacies of every tool and its theming is required to prove you're a proper nerd. I think that's a...
The Changelog
Consider Security First
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
11 months ago
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that
scary in practice. Let’s...
7 months ago
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that
scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go
standard library. Even I can understand it!
Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update
Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this
unprecedented time in...
over a year ago
Hello friends!
I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this
unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to
everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your
families health and resilience.
Hard at work… and growing
A lot...
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
Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
Liz Denys
Impostor syndrome, an ancient arcane magic
Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little...
over a year ago
Dealing with impostor syndrome isn't fun, but playing Dungeons & Dragons is! Here's a quick little 5e spell combining the two:
Impostor syndrome
5th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create an...
Tony Finch's blog
semaphoreslo in Golang and GNU make
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in
computing, invented over 60 years ago....
5 months ago
Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in
computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the
only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or
many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in
between.
Yesterday I...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to run finance at your startup without hiring a finance person
We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step...
over a year ago
We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to do just that. If you implement…
Computer Things
A list of ternary operators
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
a month ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators.
Almost all...
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
8 months ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
Cognitive...
Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
a year ago
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Interactive mnemonics for dot and cross vector products
Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D...
over a year ago
Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D thing you do: graphics, printing, physical simulation, — as soon as you want anything beyond what your framework provides, you have to do some vector magic, and these are your...
Maggie Appleton
UX London 2019 Conference
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
a year ago
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Laying myself off from Amazon
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize...
over a year ago
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.13.0
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a...
over a year ago
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a mountain of bug fixes and refactoring this week. We…
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
4 months ago
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language.
It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript.
This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
10 months ago
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
a year ago
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
Engineer’s Codex
How Facebook created the largest Memcached system in the world
Facebook handled billions of requests per second efficiently
a year ago
Facebook handled billions of requests per second efficiently
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
a year ago
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Forcing file downloads in PHP
I've seen a number of methods to force file downloads using the PHP header() function which,...
over a year ago
I've seen a number of methods to force file downloads using the PHP header() function which, essentially, sends a raw HTTP header to the browser. Depending on your browser, some files won't be downloaded automatically. Instead, they will be handled by the browser itself or a...
The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs?
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
over a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here.
This article was updated in December 2022.
In the midst of gloomy
Computer Things
Five Unusual Raku Features
Logic for Programmers is now in Beta!
v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version,...
a month ago
Logic for Programmers is now in Beta!
v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to...
A Smart Bear
The "errors" that mean you're doing it right
Some things appear to be mistakes, but in fact should be celebrated as the expected outcomes of...
11 months ago
Some things appear to be mistakes, but in fact should be celebrated as the expected outcomes of great decisions.
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Speeding up mobile development with Turbo
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product
Expectations for a product are higher now than ever....
10 months ago
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product
Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
9 months ago
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
ntietz.com blog -...
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about.
This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
2 weeks ago
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about.
This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me.
These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required.
The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
10 months ago
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer.
In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
5 months ago
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news.
Disability Pride Month
It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge
New Domain and Code Forge
2024-01-29
As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
10 months ago
New Domain and Code Forge
2024-01-29
As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Feature Transformation
Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than...
over a year ago
Presenting the same information a different way... helps! Plus, one algorithm that does better than Principal Components Analysis!
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools
Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
over a year ago
Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin]
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
Dan Slimmon
Fix tomorrow’s problems by fixing today’s problems
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have...
a year ago
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grows over time. Eventually, deploys start randomly timing out. The deploy pipeline grinds to...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
11 months ago
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
Maggie Appleton
A Metaphorical Reading Collection
over a year ago
alexwlchan
The Star-Spangled Ballad
In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this...
8 months ago
In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this year’s Olivier Awards.
I won’t be there, but a number of dear friends are in the audience, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for Operation Mincemeat – a musical with which we...
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
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...
David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud
Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
a year ago
Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer.
Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday,
and physical...
10 months ago
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...
elementary Blog
Spring cleaning is in full effect
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get...
a year ago
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles.
Sideload
Since sideloading...
Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed?
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […]
The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
over a year ago
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
Liz Denys
Recruitment is hard.
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's...
over a year ago
Recruitment is one of those things that everyone does, but everyone seems to want to do better. It's also the kind of thing that is challenging: it's complicated, it's tiring, and it's personal.
Even if the {company, organization, student group} you're recruiting for has...
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live!
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out!
This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008
On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
over a year ago
On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization)
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces...
a year ago
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces (like this one https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization) always error out so aren't very useful.
A Beautiful Site
There's a reason that Bootstrap 3 has ugly buttons
It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out.
But before you...
over a year ago
It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out.
But before you get upset at @mdo and @fat for what many mistake to be a move towards the anti-skeuomorphic design trend, you should realize there's more than meets the eye behind the decision to...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts...
10 months ago
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories.
I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent...
8 months ago
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog)
Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
over a year ago
Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to increase test coverage FAST
The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to...
over a year ago
The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to meet their ambitious KPI of "20% more test coverage". Fear not — I'll show you a couple of neat tricks that will up your coverage game in no time, so that you can go on with your...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
a year ago
I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes.
It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
Kevin Chen
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
over a year ago
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7
devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1
Virtual Suica...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of...
a year ago
We analyze growth in unicorn market cap by region. We also compare # of Barry's Bootcamps to # of unicorns for key cities.
Alex MacCaw
Pain
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
3 months ago
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is:
We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
Stephen Wolfram...
How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics....
a year ago
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of...
A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote...
a year ago
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a
tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is
meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm
looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
ntietz.com blog
A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while...
a year ago
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while working on my Lox interpreter.
It took me a little while to figure out, and it's an instructive situation.
Here's a reduced-down version of what I was working on.
It's an interpreter,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
2 months ago
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn:
We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
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Developer Exception Engineering
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
A Smart Bear
p-Hacking your A/B tests
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
a month ago
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
bt RSS Feed
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
2024-07-10
I’ve always found it useful to...
5 months ago
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad
2024-07-10
I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
The Changelog
Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the...
over a year ago
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the censorship was algorithmic or human, it was intentional either way. Details in my new post. Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and...
Making software...
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-15
Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build...
over a year ago
Super Mario Blocks in CSS
2019-02-15
Just because we can, let's make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks.
What our final product will look like:
Live CodePen Example
The HTML
The set of Mario blocks doesn't require a huge...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
7 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago:
@solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-29
It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
over a year ago
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-29
It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
swyx's site RSS Feed
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes)
Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
A Smart Bear
How startups beat incumbents
A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will...
10 months ago
A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks
JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
over a year ago
JavaScript Tooling is just too hard to use, and it's not your fault.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser →
As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
6 months ago
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...
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Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice
The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
over a year ago
The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
37signals Dev
The gift of constraints
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
3 months ago
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite.
I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
a year ago
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
a year ago
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
David Heinemeier...
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete...
a year ago
Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set!
A month...
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PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
over a year ago
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals.
Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
Liz Denys
It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...
over a year ago
Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...
Liz Denys
Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
over a year ago
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
a month ago
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five
minutes, I have a...
a year ago
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five
minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers
for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric.
It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app.
Because I take a lot...
over a year ago
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app.
Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me.
To me most important thing is:
lowest possible friction in adding new notes
fast way of...
Blog System/5
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
a year ago
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
Tinloof - Blog
A basic introduction to functional programming principles in ReasonML
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability...
over a year ago
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability and purity.
ReasonML extends the functional language OCaml and compiles to JavaScript.
This article aims to introduce you to some very basic functional principles present in...
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes.
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started...
a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy,
and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources
on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine
my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy.
The best introduction to my...
The Codist
My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure...
a year ago
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia.
It sure seems like a long time ago.
HTMHell
Starting off right: Where autofocus shines
by Kilian Valkhof
Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to...
2 weeks ago
by Kilian Valkhof
Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good...
David Gerrells
Can you convert a video to pure css?
Can you convert a video to pure css? There is only one way to find out.
4 months ago
Can you convert a video to pure css? There is only one way to find out.
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
over a year ago
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
8 months ago
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
Tony Finch's blog
regpg-1.12
Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that
safely stores server secrets encrypted...
7 months ago
Yesterday I received a bug report for regpg, my program that
safely stores server secrets encrypted with gpg so they can be
commited to a git repository.
The bug was that I used the classic shell pipeline find | xargs grep
with the classic Unix “who would want spaces in...
ntietz.com blog -...
They want your ethics for $105
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest...
a month ago
If you have a blog, you've probably gotten those emails that want to "collaborate" on a guest post—which often means "let us post sketchy links for SEO purposes."
Recently, I got one which was a little different flavor than the usual spam, so I bit and replies.
The end result was...
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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
over a year ago
What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
a year ago
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm
Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
a year ago
Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
4 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
David Heinemeier...
Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again
As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to...
a year ago
As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to the office, the competitive hiring advantage for remote-first companies is back. And it's even bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many workers have had a taste of what...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I learn (making games for the Playdate)
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda...
11 months ago
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda forgotten that I'd ordered it and was pleasantly surprised when it showed up.
For those who don't know, the Playdate is a niche handheld gaming console, similar to a Gameboy. It...
Patrick Kayongo
Use Local Technology Services
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the...
over a year ago
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the Sekunjalo Group of Companies should remain open after closure by some banks, and imminent closure by others. The reason the various banks were closing the accounts of Sekunjalo was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
10 months ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit.
He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
PostHog's RSS Feed
"How come your website is so nice?"
I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective....
over a year ago
I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective. This is what I've learned so far. Figure out if…
TokyoDev
Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012)
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
over a year ago
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
over a year ago
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
Irrational...
2022 in review.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
over a year ago
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak.
The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions
A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
over a year ago
A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
The Changelog
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
over a year ago
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
bt RSS Feed
Disabling Comments in WordPress
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
over a year ago
Disabling Comments in WordPress
2020-12-28
I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down.
Back...
TokyoDev
Tips for Interviewing at Japanese Tech Companies
I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in...
a year ago
I've already talked about some [tips on how to land a job in Japan](https://medium.com/japonica-publication/tips-for-landing-a-job-in-japan-b1b94315f177), as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
Marco.org
The 2018 iPad Pro
Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes.
Rather than try to be comprehensive, I...
over a year ago
Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes.
Rather than try to be comprehensive, I focused on what matters most to me: size choice between the 11” and 12.9”, the Smart Keyboard Folio from my perspective as a frequent 10.5” Smart Keyboard user, the new Pencil, and why...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learn In Public
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
over a year ago
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy?
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful.
The post Why study Philosophy?...
over a year ago
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful.
The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
4 months ago
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much.
I thought I more or less understood the...
David Heinemeier...
Paranoia and desperation in the AI gold rush
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI....
7 months ago
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the...
Tinloof - Blog
Using Next.js and Vercel to instantly load a data-heavy website
A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation...
over a year ago
A React application is JavaScript code that gets transformed into static HTML. This transformation is called "rendering".
Whenever you build a React application, you're inevitably making a decision on when to render it and you usually have 3 choices:
Client-side rendering: the...
James Vaughan's blog
Finding Free Food with Python
over a year ago
macwright.com
Incentives
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
9 months ago
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions
over a year ago
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Optimistic, Offline-First Apps
This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
over a year ago
This is my attempt adapting an Amplify DataStore tutorial to Svelte
Julia Evans
New microblog with TILs
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called
TIL (“today I learned”).
the goal: save...
a month ago
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called
TIL (“today I learned”).
the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media
One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky is “hey, here’s a cool
thing”, like the great SQLite repl litecli, or
the...
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What's the true role of a product team at an engineering-led organization?
We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a...
over a year ago
We’ve talked before about product-minded engineers at PostHog. We don’t have PMs dictating a roadmap or solutions - it all comes from engineering. A…
macwright.com
SaaS exits by
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
a year ago
I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences:
Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata.
Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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It is easy to...
over a year ago
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It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people
who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that
way, it is completely understandable...
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes.
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
over a year ago
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
Liz Denys
My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu
We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
over a year ago
We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
macwright.com
Hacker News
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
over a year ago
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise
pretty minimal.
try {
if (document.referrer) {
const ref = new URL(document.referrer);
if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') {
window.location.href =...
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Betwixt Reason and Result
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
over a year ago
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Google Analytics 4
Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer:...
a year ago
Want to understand how PostHog and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) are different? Here's the short answer: Google Analytics is primarily designed for…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator
Do you have a static site generator?
If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts...
a year ago
Do you have a static site generator?
If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published?
For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...
David Heinemeier...
Finished software
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve...
12 months ago
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve forever. We’ve become so used to digital services being malleable that we’ve confused the possibility of software updates with their necessity. Some software can simply be finished,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Software is What We Learned Along the Way
Trent absolutely nails it:
[the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not...
a year ago
Trent absolutely nails it:
[the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not merely the picker of fonts, the dropper of shadows, the executor of deliverables. My greatest value as a designer lies in orchestrating the process and gathering insights — applying...
ntietz.com blog
Approximating pi using... a cake?
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
a year ago
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon.
The celebrations have evolved.
It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie".
Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
A Beautiful Site
Superpowers
I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom...
over a year ago
I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom is superpowers. Not superpowers in the Superman sense, but ones that we can teach ourselves.
Learn Photoshop, and you’ll have a superpower. You’ll be able to see what your bedroom...
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
over a year ago
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
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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
a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
ntietz.com blog
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1
This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule.
But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance.
Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
over a year ago
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound.
I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design:
it should be simple and therefore easy to implement
it should be human-readable
it...
Alex Meub
A Great Bumper Sticker
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago...
over a year ago
I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing:
It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland):
If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
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A non-coder's thoughts on an 'Everybody Codes' culture
One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous...
over a year ago
One of PostHog’s core values is that everybody codes. That doesn’t mean everyone needs previous experience as a developer or engineer, but we…
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
macwright.com
React is old
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015.
For the web...
8 months ago
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015.
For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to fast Next.js
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
11 months ago
Insights into how Tinloof measures website speed with best practices to make faster websites.
Maggie Appleton
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams
over a year ago
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