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Networking Essentials: Switching
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Tony Finch's blog
The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice
A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control
next to A.
Compared to the...
a year ago
A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control
next to A.
Compared to the usual ANSI layout, backquote is displaced from its
common position next to 1. But a proper Unix keyboard should cover
the entire ASCII repertoire, 94 printing characters on 47 keys,...
General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
The Changelog
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I...
over a year ago
Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I eventually ran one, though in my small town there were few callers. Some time back, I downloaded a copy of Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary. You might know Jason Scott from textfiles.com and...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
5 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #2
On projects, side-projects, AI, and existential dread.
a year ago
On projects, side-projects, AI, and existential dread.
Evan Jones -...
Advice on looking for a new software engineering job
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
over a year ago
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code?
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
4 days ago
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective.
In my life, there have only been three periods where I
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
over a year ago
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format.
function csv($array) {
$csv = "";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) {
$csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"';
if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ",";
...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection
The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
a year ago
The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
Kevin Chen
How autonomous vehicle simulation works
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
6 months ago
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
Joel Gascoigne
What it's really like to grow a team when you're focused on culture-fit
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over a year ago
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It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the
past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all.
Company culture is one of those...
alexwlchan
Preserving pixels in Paris
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the...
7 months ago
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the preservation of websites and social media.
It was my first time attending, and I was there with both a professional and a personal interest.
This post has some thoughts and photos...
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Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog
Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
over a year ago
Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records.
I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that.
Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
Elad Blog
Back to the office
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip)
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
a year ago
A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Major Garbage Producers in JS
The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally...
over a year ago
The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally conscious (hey there, my European readers), you probably do all sorts of crazy thinks to cut down on garbage — reject plastic bags in a supermarket, recycle bottles, keep the paper...
TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers.
If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
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How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
over a year ago
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
Making software...
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It's a distro I've used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now.
Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
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Writing my first Security blogpost
Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
over a year ago
Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
3 weeks ago
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
Tinker, Tamper,...
On The End of Bitcoin
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
over a year ago
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
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Temporal - the iPhone of System Design
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
over a year ago
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
Alex Meub
A Craigslist Early Notification Exploit
I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability...
over a year ago
I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability disclosure process. I didn’t want to publish it until I confirmed the issue was fixed, but it appears to have been fixed on February 28th, 2021 so I am posting it...
Steve Klabnik
What's new with "The Rust Programming Language"
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative
where I’ve been spending...
a year ago
I started using Mastodon back in November, and it’s the Twitter alternative
where I’ve been spending most of my time recently, mostly because the Fediverse
is where a lot of the Linux nerds seem to be right now.
I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because...
David Heinemeier...
We tried that, didn’t work
In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
a year ago
In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible.
That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
9 months ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC.
Nine months later I know...
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Components
There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to...
over a year ago
There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to share it with you all.
A Beautiful Site
How to leave a console greeting for your visitors
Since my audience consists primarily of web developers, I decided to try a little experiment the...
over a year ago
Since my audience consists primarily of web developers, I decided to try a little experiment the other day. I added a console greeting to the site for anyone who decides to look under the hood. Here's how I did it.
What the heck is a console greeting? #
Some time ago, I saw a...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
a year ago
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
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"No Code" vs RPA
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...
over a year ago
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
Miguel Carranza
Effective code review
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
over a year ago
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
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...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
4 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
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Essential Plugins for Gatsby Remark
Gatsby-Remark is one of those fun plugins that have their own plugins - but there are a lot of them....
over a year ago
Gatsby-Remark is one of those fun plugins that have their own plugins - but there are a lot of them. Here's a list I wrote down a few months ago of plugins I think everyone should use.
ntietz.com blog
The Beginning of Something
It seems like everyone in the software industry goes through a blogging phase. This is the beginning...
over a year ago
It seems like everyone in the software industry goes through a blogging phase. This is the beginning of mine.
I have started this blog time and time again over the last three years. My original inspiration for having a technical blog came from one of my mentors at my internship....
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Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby)
Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
bt RSS Feed
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
2020-08-16
I don’t like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech...
over a year ago
Linux Mint MacBook Air Setup
2020-08-16
I don’t like the idea of throwing away old or outdated tech (within reason), so I try to find a new purpose for some of my “retired” devices. This article will cover how to switch over a mid-2011 model MacBook Air to utilize Linux...
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.
Ink & Switch
OS of the future and universal version control
In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing...
9 months ago
In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions
over a year ago
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Implementing Netlify’s Image CDNz
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a...
8 months ago
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a pretty drastic decrease in overall bandwidth. Here are the numbers:
Page
Requests
Old
New
Difference
Home
60
1.3MB
293kB
▼ 78% (1.01MB)
Colors
84
1.4MB
371kB
▼ 74%...
Coding Horror
To Serve Man, with Software
I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time,...
over a year ago
I didn't choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.2 released
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and...
3 weeks ago
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and runs a script when one of your zones changes.
This nsnotifyd-2.2 release includes a new feature:
nsnotify can now send NOTIFY messages from a specific source address
Thanks to Adam...
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Making software...
Using User-Select
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property?
Introducing the CSS property
Simply put, the...
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...
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev...
a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。
TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s
dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
7 months ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s
dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog
posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I
learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others!
contents of key...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
over a year ago
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
HTMHell
Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
over a year ago
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe.
SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance
The marquee element is an old...
Liz Denys
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
a year ago
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev
wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
over a year ago
wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10?
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
7 months ago
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day.
I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
over a year ago
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
a year ago
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […]
The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Dan Slimmon
The World Record for Loneliness
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
7 months ago
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
over a year ago
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup.
Startups #
Throughout college, I...
A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform...
over a year ago
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn
Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is.
But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
The Pragmatic...
Should you optimize for all-cash compensation, if possible?
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how...
a year ago
Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of...
a month ago
I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS
periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed.
This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few
minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
over a year ago
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
Epic Web Dev
What does “Full Stack” mean for Epic Web
a year ago
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version).
If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
The Codist
Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become?
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my...
a year ago
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my internet connection at sea. Reading a relatively lightweight site like Google News generally gave me time to get an ice cream cone before the page appeared.
Has everyone abandoned...
bt RSS Feed
ET-Jekyll Theme
ET-Jekyll Theme
2018-01-14
ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
over a year ago
ET-Jekyll Theme
2018-01-14
ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte.
The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS
It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
10 months ago
It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
over a year ago
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite.
If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
sancho.dev
Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
over a year ago
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...
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers.
That is just mind boggling scale to me.
It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in.
They are paying a lot of engineers.
Some of them do very...
TokyoDev
Why I sold Doorkeeper
この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。
I can pinpoint the exact time when I...
over a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。
I can pinpoint the exact time when I decided to sell [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp), the event management platform I helped launch in 2010, incorporated in 2013, and made profitable in 2016. It was a Friday...
Don Melton
How not to blog
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
over a year ago
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
Alex Meub
How to Add IPv6 Support to CloudFront and S3 Websites
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have...
over a year ago
If you host your website on Amazon CloudFront or directly on Amazon S3, you may not currently have it configured to support IPv6. This means that visitors won’t be able to access your content with IPv6-only enabled which is not good. On top of that, I think its important to...
Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people'
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
over a year ago
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives:
Mr....
dthompson
Guix for development
This wonderful
article by
Marius Bakke (thanks for using
Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...
over a year ago
This wonderful
article by
Marius Bakke (thanks for using
Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment
to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone
asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
over a year ago
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
Darek Kay
Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are...
a month ago
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are displayed when sharing a link on social media or messaging apps. Here's an example from WhatsApp:
For each photo that I publish, I create a WebP thumbnail for the gallery. I wanted...
Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
over a year ago
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City!
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
over a year ago
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images:
The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it:
Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15...
a year ago
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s
idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it.
So I asked people on Mastodon:
what git jargon do you find...
Josh Collinsworth
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8 months ago
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
a year ago
One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
Maggie Appleton
Pattern Languages in Programming and Interface Design
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
4 days ago
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
Irrational...
Notes on The Crux
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing...
a year ago
The Crux by Richard Rumelt is a fantastic follow on to his Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, providing many of the same core ideas but in a more readable format, and a clearer target to take down: the incoherent outputs of process and goal-driven strategy.
Recently, I’ve been looking...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything.
You create...
a year ago
The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything.
You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file.
It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
7 months ago
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
Maggie Appleton
Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
a year ago
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
a year ago
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
Cognitive...
Fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware - background
I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need...
a year ago
I want to write about fine-tuning Alpaca 30b 4-bit on consumer hardware, but before I can, I'll need to give a little background. My basic goal was to figure out "what's the most powerful AI I can customize and run on my shiny new 4090."
The answer right now is LLaMA 30b....
dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores
compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
over a year ago
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores
compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5.
Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes
on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and
more naive...
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to...
3 months ago
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential
feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research.
I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
over a year ago
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
over a year ago
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it!
When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
TokyoDev
What if We Had a Party, but the Entertainment was a Conference: Tokyu RubyKaigi 14 Recap
[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in...
a year ago
[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in Tokyo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the event, the last Ruby conference I went to was [RubyKaigi](/articles/rubykaigi-2023-recap), but since this event attracted a similar...
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
a year ago
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page:
"Which technology is worth learning in 2020?"
And the most "upvoted" answer was:
Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL
Well,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites
Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
over a year ago
Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team members travelled from America, Estonia, The…
The Pragmatic...
Inside Pollen's Software Engineering Salaries
What was the compensation philosophy of the events tech startup, and how much were devs, EMs and PMs...
a year ago
What was the compensation philosophy of the events tech startup, and how much were devs, EMs and PMs paid?
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,...
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
a year ago
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
Irrational...
Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping.
In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy,
I’ve finally reached the point where...
3 weeks ago
In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy,
I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to
consider including into a topic that I either do or do not include.
The first step on that line is getting much deeper at...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Impressionist Blogging Movement
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI...
4 months ago
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI and the future of design (emphasis mine):
Now, what actually is AI? The Italian philosopher and technology ethicist Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t...
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
4 months ago
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
ntietz.com blog
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong.
With...
8 months ago
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong.
With great logs, you can see what your application is doing.
And without them?
Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out.
Instead, you wonder why your customers...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from?
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my
computer get the time from?
The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the
talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough
and...
Acko.net
Fuck It, We'll Do It Live
How the Live effect run-time is implemented
In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
a year ago
How the Live effect run-time is implemented
In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful.
I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
sancho.dev
query-json: jq written in Reason
over a year ago
Making software...
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
over a year ago
Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback
2020-12-04
Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be "injected" via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one's hands. So, the least I can do is...
Founder's blog
I really wanted to like Tailwind CSS
TL;DR
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS!
First, a...
a year ago
TL;DR
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Me: Here's what I think about Tailwind CSS!
First, a tip of the hat
Let's get one thing out of the way: Tailwind CSS is great.
For starters, Tailwind is a very polished and well-thought-out product. As a fellow bootstrapper - I...
David Heinemeier...
Et tu, Zoom?
The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom! The...
a year ago
The corporate cause for return-to-office just claimed its perhaps most ironic victim: Zoom! The company that literally lives to sell us all on the wonders of remote collaboration wants its own people back into the office again. Which I guess is just a regression to the mean of...
blag
Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
a year ago
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
Neil Panchal
How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory
When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
over a year ago
When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/.
There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
PostHog's RSS Feed
When and how to run group-targeted A/B tests
A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However,...
a year ago
A/B tests are a powerful tool for measuring how product changes impact user behavior. However, sometimes changing how one user interacts with your…
Nelson's Weblog
My racism at accents
Interesting NPR segment today: A
powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
a year ago
Interesting NPR segment today: A
powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on earth.
What’s remarkable is it’s a PhD candidate talking to an NPR host about
solar flares, completely in two Southern Black accents. Two women, at
that.
I am dismayed at my own involuntary...
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
over a year ago
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Situations in which TDD is the way to go
While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s...
a year ago
While I’m not a fan of using TDD all the time, here are a few situations where it’s effective.
Bugfix
Starting a bugfix by writing the broken test case is often very practical, especially with issues that show up somewhere in the front end, but the fix is somewhere deep in the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel
Alex Lakatos interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he put together
over a year ago
Alex Lakatos interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he put together
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer: Cyber Monday Deals
It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The...
2 weeks ago
It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Here they are:
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: 20% off, for the first year, for annual subscriptions. Claim it here. See more details, and read reviews...
Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language
over a year ago
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...
Copper • A blog...
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
over a year ago
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in
Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing.
I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
a year ago
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable database from scratch.
Greg Brockman
Recurse Center
Coding requires collaboration. As Andrew Bosworth said recently: doing anything meaningful past a...
over a year ago
Coding requires collaboration. As Andrew Bosworth said recently: doing anything meaningful past a certain point requires more than one person. So if you want to build, it’s important to do so as part of a welcoming, collaborative environment.
One environment I’ve long admired is...
The Pragmatic...
Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The...
a year ago
I asked software engineers to recommend domain registrars and more than 250 people responded. The most popular are Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun. Why do devs like them?
Maggie Appleton
Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
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over a year ago
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This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
Irrational...
Navigators
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is...
a year ago
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes:
Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.33.0
Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity...
over a year ago
Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity Cloud support for ClickHouse, configuring your instance from the PostHog UI and 290+ improvements/fixes.
Acko.net
I is for Intent
Why your app turned into spaghetti
There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him...
10 months ago
Why your app turned into spaghetti
There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him Stanley.
Stanley has been around for a while, and has his fair share of war stories. The common thread is that poorly conceived and specced solutions lead to disaster, or at least,...
Liz Denys
Notes on pandemic eats, March to mid-October 2020
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian...
over a year ago
I became vegetarian in February. It was a really, really long time coming, and becoming vegetarian before the start of a pandemic was really convenient. Few things beat having a bunch of dried beans, lentils, and veggies plus a bunch of rice on in my pantry while you're figuring...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Beware The Fallacy of Composition
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
over a year ago
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
3 months ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.”
Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.”
And in...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
over a year ago
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
a year ago
Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass.
Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing.
He mentioned nesting media queries,...
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
6 months ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall?
Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
ntietz.com blog
Where is the source code for ping?
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
over a year ago
Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Confessions of a...
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood
Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous...
5 months ago
Ever wondered how your CPU handles two tasks at once? Discover the magic of Simultaneous Multithreading and see what’s really going on inside.
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal)
Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
over a year ago
Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
a year ago
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0 has been released
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
When to use cute names or descriptive names
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive.
That post talks about...
9 months ago
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive.
That post talks about services and does not talk at all about modules or variables.
It's different in the latter context: those names should often be descriptive.
What's the difference, and how do you...
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
over a year ago
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔
The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python
I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs.
There are lots of ways to do...
a year ago
I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs.
There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with.
I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's...
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
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Array 1.7.0
This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data...
over a year ago
This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much…
A small freedom area...
From roots to polynomials
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are
those I call the "sum of...
over a year ago
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are
those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the
"root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are
the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
a year ago
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
A Beautiful Site
I should have been asking my users this from the start
Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users...
over a year ago
Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users don't tell you? It seems obvious, but here is something I should have been asking my users from the start.
Getting the right feedback is critical #
When someone signs up for my...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Cities need more trees
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
5 months ago
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reading Recursion via Pascal
<_
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale.
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
a year ago
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email,...
over a year ago
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Ferd.ca
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
2023/06/20
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
This post contains a transcript of the...
a year ago
2023/06/20
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
This post contains a transcript of the talk I wrote for and gave at QCon New York 2023 for Vanessa Huerta Granda's track on resilience engineering.
The official talk title was "Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback...
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
over a year ago
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included.
I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
TokyoDev
The rise and fall of D&D in Japan
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
9 months ago
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
a year ago
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
alexwlchan
create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images
I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images.
I need...
4 months ago
I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images.
I need image thumbnails in a lot of projects, and I wanted a single tool I could use in all of them rather than having multiple copies of the same code.
It takes three arguments:
Your...
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
over a year ago
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup
Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog vs LogRocket
LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one...
a year ago
LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one platform. In this article we’ll explain some of the…
Maggie Appleton
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis
9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #17: The personal traits that can't be taught
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
9 months ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives
I've added an
archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the
way back to...
a year ago
I've added an
archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the
way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for
any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will
have a grey background because I wasn't...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
10 months ago
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Confessions of a...
What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals
CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
8 months ago
CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 348
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 23, 2016: street harassment
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride:
Content warning:...
blag
Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2)
I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
over a year ago
I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
Julia Evans
Some notes on nix flakes
I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now.
For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring...
a year ago
I’ve been using nix for about 9 months now.
For all of that time I’ve been steadfastly ignoring flakes, but everyone keeps
saying that flakes are great and the best way to use nix, so I decided to try
to figure out what the deal is with them.
I found it very hard to find simple...
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
3 months ago
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
over a year ago
You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […]
The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
Using templates in Terraform to document a deployment
I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the...
a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the deployments it’s creating.
In particular, I’ve started using Terraform to create README files which describe the exact infrastructure it’s just created.
Here’s my latest example: a README...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: CPython Memory Management Internals
Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter...
7 months ago
Last week we concluded the live session on the internals of the CPython’s main bytecode interpreter (the VM), and the response from the attendees has been very encouraging. Next, I want to talk about how CPython implements memory management in its runtime. Most programming...
Engineer’s Codex
Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized,...
10 months ago
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
over a year ago
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
Liz Denys
The shape is everything: sun-dried tomato and pesto pane bianco
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry...
over a year ago
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry side of things. While I've been enjoying making fresh sourdough from fresh sourdough starter and love the end results, I sometimes find that basic breads are a lot of kneading (read:...
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
Charles Chen
Nuxt 3 with SSR on Google Cloud Firebase Functions (2023)
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no...
a year ago
If you're seeking a no-cost, low-ops, low-friction solution for deploying SSR workloads then look no further!
James Vaughan's blog
Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
5 months ago
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
2 weeks ago
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
3 months ago
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
Irrational...
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering.
There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen...
a year ago
There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen engineering leaders start with a giant, doomed migration, marketing leaders who accelerate expenses until they necessitate a round of layoffs, and a number of executives fired in their...
Making software...
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-11-04
Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
over a year ago
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-11-04
Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although...
over a year ago
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home
after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the
Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a...
over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic.
The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
macwright.com
About Placemark.io
Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source...
9 months ago
Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project. I have no qualms with sharing the answers publicly, so here they are:
I stopped Placemark because it didn’t generate enough revenue and I lost faith that there was a...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
over a year ago
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me?
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over a year ago
Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
over a year ago
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
– Thomas Sowell
I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article)
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
9 months ago
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
a year ago
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes
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over a year ago
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
David Heinemeier...
Bad Therapy
This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So...
8 months ago
This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So many kids with a diagnosis of one sort or another, so much monitoring of children's every move, so much anxiety over the most trivial things, like the sugar content of a cupcake....
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
over a year ago
Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
David Heinemeier...
The curing value of creation
It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a...
a year ago
It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a product, an organization, or a community, or all three at once. Like exercise, it's one of those rare avenues of human endeavor that almost invariably will make anyone feel better....
bt RSS Feed
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
a year ago
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Alex Meub
Use the Natural CSS Box Model
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the...
over a year ago
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree. It determines how the content area, padding, border and margin of an element will be displayed. There are two types.
The W3C Box Model
x
...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2024
The Ware for May 2024 is shown below. This is a guest ware, but I’ll reveal the contributor when I...
6 months ago
The Ware for May 2024 is shown below. This is a guest ware, but I’ll reveal the contributor when I reveal the ware next month, as the name and link would also lead to the solution.
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
over a year ago
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website.
Scroll to a specific element #
Here's how to...
Irrational...
How should you adopt LLMs?
Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably...
7 months ago
Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably been pushed to consider using Large Language Models (LLM) to extend your product or enhance your processes. 2023-2024 is an interesting era for LLM adoption, where these...
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Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript'
_[Slides...
over a year ago
_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
3 months ago
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
swyx's site RSS Feed
Static Svelte: JavaScript Blogging with 93% less JavaScript
This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where...
over a year ago
This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where it [previously used React & Gatsby](https://5d7699e172ae430007210374--scout-videos-51664.netlify.com/writing/moving-to-novela). This is achieved through [Sapper's `sapper export`...
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down:
I've...
Joel Gascoigne
Experimenting with a 7 day work week
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For the first...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new
routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine.
The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
swyx's site RSS Feed
Digital Garden Terms of Service
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
over a year ago
This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and when?
swyx's site RSS Feed
To Understand Concurrent React, Look Outside React
## Table of Contents
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Yet Another Rust Resource (or YARR!)
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why...
a year ago
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it.
Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way.
Introducing Yet...
Vadim Kravcenko
🎭 Owning up to your mistakes
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
over a year ago
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […]
The post 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Importing Common Lisp Files in Medley with TextModules
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