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Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
10th Nov 2024
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Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan

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

10th Nov 2024
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more. I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I’m a big...
3rd Oct 2022
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

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

3rd Oct 2022
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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Migrating a Create React App project to Vite Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It...
15th Jun 2021
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Migrating a Create React App project to Vite

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2021
Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It is great for beginners, as you don't need to care about configuring your toolset. However, I've encountered more and more limitations without "ejecting", mostly due to the...
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
3rd Nov 2021
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist

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

3rd Nov 2021
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
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GitHub is anarchy for programmers
1st Oct 2011
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GitHub is anarchy for programmers

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

1st Oct 2011
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An introduction to economics under capitalism
10th Mar 2015
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An introduction to economics under capitalism

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

10th Mar 2015
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What I'm up to - August 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
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What I'm up to - August 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
7th Feb 2019
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Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need

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

7th Feb 2019
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two weeks is all you need two-weeks I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines...
21st Nov 2024
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two weeks is all you need

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

21st Nov 2024
two-weeks I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines of code written by me. Why I did this So a couple weeks back I had a computer vision midterm and i was allowed a single page of notes. I decided to use Claude to generate a cheat...
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Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
8th Sep 2023
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Meeting philosophy

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

8th Sep 2023
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible. Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager). Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
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Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
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Using User-Select

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

4th Jun 2019
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...
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Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022
31st May 2022
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Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022

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

31st May 2022
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Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
25th Nov 2020
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Getting localized month and day names in the browser

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

25th Nov 2020
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
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Kubernetes at Work Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren...
20th Jun 2020
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Kubernetes at Work

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jun 2020
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
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What the hell is a Webmention? If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
1st Aug 2025
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What the hell is a Webmention?

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

1st Aug 2025
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Fab Boombox
18th Dec 2011
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Fab Boombox

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

18th Dec 2011
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Job Interviews By Zombies The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the...
18th Jan 2022
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Job Interviews By Zombies

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

18th Jan 2022
The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the moment, we’re hiring. As I’m interviewing people, I’m struck by how hard some folks make it for me to give them a “yes.” Candidates tend to murmur things like, “we decided to move...
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Wait, IPython Can Do That?! Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides...
7th Jul 2019
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Wait, IPython Can Do That?!

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

7th Jul 2019
Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides before each conference to incorporate any new ideas that come to my mind and make sure they are up to date, if you are interested in a particular version of the slides, just send me an...
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For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
7th Jun 2024
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For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech

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

7th Jun 2024
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
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Strategic choices: When both options are good Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
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Strategic choices: When both options are good

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

22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
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Zero Trust Networks Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next...
10th Sep 2019
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Zero Trust Networks

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

10th Sep 2019
Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to...
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Review: Red Rain
27th Jun 2025
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Review: Red Rain

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

27th Jun 2025
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Japan Needs International Developers No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
11th Oct 2024
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Japan Needs International Developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
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The Gift Economy Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
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The Gift Economy

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

3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
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Meta fined $102 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission
12th Nov 2024
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Meta fined $102 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission

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

12th Nov 2024
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How we built Buttondown's new docs We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
6th May 2024
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How we built Buttondown's new docs

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

6th May 2024
We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
16th Sep 2007
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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname

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

16th Sep 2007
Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

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

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
13th Aug 2020
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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)

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

13th Aug 2020
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I’ve officially switched back over to Jekyll. I’m not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I’ll...
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PCG64 DXSM random number generator Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It...
21st Jun 2023
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PCG64 DXSM random number generator

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

21st Jun 2023
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered, called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about it. (I have...
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Cool desktops don’t change 😎 Tools can be a subtle trap. – Neil Gaiman, The Sandman My ThinkPad X220 in all its glory Working on...
15th Jun 2022
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Cool desktops don’t change 😎

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

15th Jun 2022
Tools can be a subtle trap. – Neil Gaiman, The Sandman My ThinkPad X220 in all its glory Working on my old ThinkPad x220 feels easy because I’ve used the same software for over a decade. And while it’s tempting to switch to one of the endless new apps out there, there are good...
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I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
30th Dec 2023
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I have not failed enough

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

30th Dec 2023
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer

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

1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles Here are a couple of things I did yesterday! some logging improvements I was having a problem on my...
2nd Feb 2021
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2021
Here are a couple of things I did yesterday! some logging improvements I was having a problem on my server where I was logging in 3 different ways: Rails was logging to a file called production.log my Go proxy was logging to Docker Compose’s default log thing (whatever that...
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I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
9th May 2024
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I’m sorry

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

9th May 2024
Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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What I'm up to - October 2026 Hello from 10 kilometers over somewhere in the Midwest, as I sit in a tiny airplane seat and...
3 weeks ago
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What I'm up to - October 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
Hello from 10 kilometers over somewhere in the Midwest, as I sit in a tiny airplane seat and appreciate the privacy screen on my laptop. I've been writing a monthly newsletter here about what I am up to for the last four years.
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

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

8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element's height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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Naming Variables the Right Way I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming...
1st Apr 2021
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Naming Variables the Right Way

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

1st Apr 2021
I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming more than one might suspect. For example, a developer uses a rateLimit variable expecting it to be denominated in seconds while it represents minutes, resulting in a 6x slower...
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Things to consider when choosing a community ceramics studio, partial list I've worked out of a handful of different community studios at this point, so I figured I'd share a...
10th Mar 2026
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Things to consider when choosing a community ceramics studio, partial list

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

10th Mar 2026
I've worked out of a handful of different community studios at this point, so I figured I'd share a (probably incomplete) list of you might want to consider when picking a community ceramics studio for your practice. Cost, location, value: I'm not going to comment too much on...
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups

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

4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
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Boots, a Wizard Bear that Codes Boots is the heart and soul of Boot.dev. Not only is he capable of helping you through any lesson on...
8th Jun 2023
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Boots, a Wizard Bear that Codes

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

8th Jun 2023
Boots is the heart and soul of Boot.dev. Not only is he capable of helping you through any lesson on Boot.dev, but he’s a friendly wizard bear with a charming personality. Some things you should know about Boots:
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What I'm up to - June 2022 I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the...
1st Jun 2022
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What I'm up to - June 2022

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2022
I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the first version of Postcard, which is a personal website + mailing list tool I'm building. (If you w...
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Twitter subscriptions I don’t need anything more than human support.
9th Feb 2021
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Twitter subscriptions

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2021
I don’t need anything more than human support.
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Safari bug with ruby tag *Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
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Safari bug with ruby tag

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ） which renders as ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ） If you control click...
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The systemic decay of tech hiring Complaining about tech interviews is the favorite pastime of software engineers. We know they're...
22nd Jun 2026
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The systemic decay of tech hiring

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2026
Complaining about tech interviews is the favorite pastime of software engineers. We know they're broken, we've seen exactly how they're broken, but, despite a decade of collective hand-waving, we haven't fixed them. In fact, we haven't even understood why they're broken:...
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A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
8th Oct 2012
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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2012
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...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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

11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my...
7th Nov 2024
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The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2024
For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my first two decades in this country, I went from one extreme to the other: from seeing English as important here, to regarding it as a niche, inessential aspect of Japanese life. My...
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Refactoring internal documentation in Notion In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most...
5th Feb 2026
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Refactoring internal documentation in Notion

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

5th Feb 2026
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments. This is a writeup of the concrete steps I took to see how much progress one person could make on improving the organization’s documentation while holding myself to a high...
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How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
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How to change custom domain on Substack

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

17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
30th Jul 2024
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites

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

30th Jul 2024
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
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Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in...
18th Sep 2024
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Technology & The Hollowing Middle Class

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

18th Sep 2024
IT systems within large enterprises have done wonders to improve the efficiencies, resulting in great cost-savings, yet with unquestioned social effects. In his book Rhodes & His Banker, Richard Steyn narrates the founding and the early years of the bank we now know as Standard...
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Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like...
14th Jul 2025
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Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

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

14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation. RSS has its own place in...
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Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11th Jan 2024
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Handmade Seattle 2023

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2024
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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Hello world “Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life...
27th Dec 2015
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Hello world

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

27th Dec 2015
“Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life when I check it off. There are some things I have been wanting to talk about for a while now, in a way that’s less ephemeral than twitter. Like how the tech industry […]
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Counting the days, revisited Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts...
9th Aug 2026
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Counting the days, revisited

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

9th Aug 2026
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down date-time into linear time_t. I recently...
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Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
2nd Jan 2025
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Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.

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

2nd Jan 2025
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of the three core strategy refinement techniques, this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least. Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it highlights how...
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Fast Rails tests with CanCan
12th Dec 2011
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Fast Rails tests with CanCan

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

12th Dec 2011
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft

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

7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
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Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
6th Jun 2024
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Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable

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

6th Jun 2024
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”. Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
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Which blend mode? This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
22nd Oct 2021
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Which blend mode?

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2021
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
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July 2024
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July 2024

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

1st Jul 2024
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
25th Feb 2022
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer

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

25th Feb 2022
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
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Trolley Problems as a Service Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard. ...
30th May 2020
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Trolley Problems as a Service

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

30th May 2020
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it?  💔 Ethical problems are hard.  Even the ones that seem straightforward on the face of them get stickier the closer you look at them.  There are more stakeholders, more caveats, more cautionary tales, more...
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Visit for a surprise Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility...
1st Sep 2022
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Visit for a surprise

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

1st Sep 2022
Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Success Criterion 2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context) instructs us to ensure that a link’s accessible name makes sense when separated from its surrounding context. It’s why...
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Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
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Moving to Node.js

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

6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
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Abstract vs concrete
14th Nov 2013
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Abstract vs concrete

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

14th Nov 2013
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Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
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Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources

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

2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
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How Copy-on-Write Works with Memory-Mapped Files Let’s step inside the kernel and understand how it implements copy-on-write and what are its...
3 weeks ago
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How Copy-on-Write Works with Memory-Mapped Files

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
Let’s step inside the kernel and understand how it implements copy-on-write and what are its implications for the performance of user-space systems
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LLMs and performative productivity It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we...
5th Jun 2026
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LLMs and performative productivity

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

5th Jun 2026
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
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Using the Oxide Console
17th Feb 2024
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Using the Oxide Console

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

17th Feb 2024
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In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
1st Jun 2022
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In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo

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

1st Jun 2022
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
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Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost A free, open-source project for blogs
3rd Jan 2026
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Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2026
A free, open-source project for blogs
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Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
16th Aug 2018
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Cocoa brownies

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

16th Aug 2018
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
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A Simple Guide for Calm UI Read the post here.
17th Sep 2026
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A Simple Guide for Calm UI

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

17th Sep 2026
Read the post here.
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?

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

18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
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How to 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...
4th Feb 2022
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit

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

4th Feb 2022
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.
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs? Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

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

11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
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Joining ellipses with matching tangents In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg, using curcular arcs that join...
5th Feb 2024
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Joining ellipses with matching tangents

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

5th Feb 2024
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...
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SQLite commits are not durable under default settings SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
24th Aug 2025
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SQLite commits are not durable under default settings

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2025
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / 　 づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
9th Jul 2025
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Single-Use Disposable Applications

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

9th Jul 2025
As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
8th Dec 2020
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error

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

8th Dec 2020
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
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Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
2nd Nov 2018
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Kill the crunch time heroics

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

2nd Nov 2018
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
4th Nov 2018
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking

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

4th Nov 2018
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
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Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
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Critical Trade Theory

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

10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
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What I'm up to - June 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jun 2025
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What I'm up to - June 2025

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
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Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
8th Jan 2025
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Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook

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

8th Jan 2025
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
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Yet another alternative to floating point numbers This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
31st Oct 2020
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Yet another alternative to floating point numbers

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2020
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
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The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
17th Oct 2022
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The Future of Shoelace

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

17th Oct 2022
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
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What I'm up to - September 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
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What I'm up to - September 2023

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
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America’s Future It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America...
27th Oct 2024
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America’s Future

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

27th Oct 2024
It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America is not in decline, I want to believe America is not in decline. If America is in decline, I want to believe America is in decline. So let’s ask, what does the future look like for...
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A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code...
11th Oct 2022
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A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack

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

11th Oct 2022
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this...
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TouchClock
30th Dec 2010
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TouchClock

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

30th Dec 2010
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content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
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content slop

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

5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and...
1st Sep 2020
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Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast - 25% of Our Time Refactoring

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

1st Sep 2020
My team has been spending less of our “free” time working on bugs and features from the backlog, and more time refactoring our code and tests. As a result, and perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve noticed a significant increase in our throughput of features and bug fixes.
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(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024) I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
11th May 2023
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(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)

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

11th May 2023
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
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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...
1st Jun 2023
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Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools

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

1st Jun 2023
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...
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Name that Ware, April 2025 The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various...
30th Apr 2025
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Name that Ware, April 2025

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

30th Apr 2025
The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various reasons I think this is sufficient for someone to guess at least the type of ware this came from, if not the exact make/model. There’s a particularly interesting bit about this...
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
1st Nov 2019
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

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

1st Nov 2019
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2018
This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy sell, full API docs and tutorial are already available at glom.readthedocs.io. met me at PyCon, this 5-minute talk. The Spectre of Structure In the Python world, there's a...
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how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant,...
23rd Oct 2025
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how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks

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

23rd Oct 2025
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant, obtuse, bloated beast only used by those who have no other choice because some enterprise corporate believed the hype train of the 90s. But is that all still true today?
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
9th Jan 2014
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2014
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
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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....
28th Dec 2011
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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich

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

28th Dec 2011
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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How to solve it (with raycasting) In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math...
1st May 2024
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How to solve it (with raycasting)

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

1st May 2024
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the...
4th Jan 2023
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions

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

4th Jan 2023
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye. Geometry and trigonometry were my two best math areas in school (I am not an Algebra person and generally did not enjoy...
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

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

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
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The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS...
30th Apr 2024
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The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work

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

30th Apr 2024
I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS application, doing general maintenance work, which led me down an interesting rabbit hole. I could’ve used an online knowledge tool such as the various LLM-based tools available now. But...
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How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
3rd May 2025
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How to filter out old email from inbox

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

3rd May 2025
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
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Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a...
27th Jul 2025
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Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console

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

27th Jul 2025
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a miniature version of the Super Famicom and I love how it makes the Playdate look like a little game cartridge when it’s charging. Making one yourself is pretty straight-forward, you’ll...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
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Getting Closure on React Hooks

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

11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
19th Aug 2024
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
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Tote bag
20th Jul 2024
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Tote bag

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

20th Jul 2024
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Announcing CalVer It's about time. Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current laptop has more...
22nd Jun 2016
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Announcing CalVer

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2016
It's about time. Technologists expect things to get better with time. Your current laptop has more RAM than the last, your current car is safer than its predecessor, and the latest version of your code is certainly the best ever. What if the same be said of versioning...
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I Love You Truly [Ukulele Mp3] I arranged and recorded 'I Love You Truly' on electric ukulele for Chelsea.
10th Feb 2012
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I Love You Truly [Ukulele Mp3]

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

10th Feb 2012
I arranged and recorded 'I Love You Truly' on electric ukulele for Chelsea.
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My Hacktoberfest 2019 Hardest I've ever worked for a free t-shirt.
26th Oct 2019
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My Hacktoberfest 2019

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

26th Oct 2019
Hardest I've ever worked for a free t-shirt.
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Sandcastles Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
17th Apr 2023
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Sandcastles

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

17th Apr 2023
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
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A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
1st Nov 2020
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A History of Cyborgs

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

1st Nov 2020
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
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Debugging running server applications So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
2nd Aug 2012
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Debugging running server applications

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

2nd Aug 2012
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
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Guile-Websocket 0.1 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an...
12th Nov 2022
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Guile-Websocket 0.1 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2022
I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. source tarball: https://files.dthompson.us/guile-websocket/guile-websocket-0.1.tar.gz signature:...
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
14th Jan 2024
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A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET

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

14th Jan 2024
Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
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Implementing HATEOS with presenters

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

6th Jan 2012
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Community Versions for Rust
23rd Aug 2015
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Community Versions for Rust

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

23rd Aug 2015
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

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

19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
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Software Praxis The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
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Software Praxis

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

27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
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Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
7th Sep 2018
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Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them

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

7th Sep 2018
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
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The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism Greetings everyone! You might have noticed that it's September and I don't have the next version of...
4th Sep 2025
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The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism

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

4th Sep 2025
Greetings everyone! You might have noticed that it's September and I don't have the next version of Logic for Programmers ready. As penance, here's ten free copies of the book. So a few months ago I wrote a newsletter about how we use nondeterminism in formal methods. The...
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My experience with burnout as a startup founder Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way...
28th Oct 2019
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My experience with burnout as a startup founder

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

28th Oct 2019
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge. I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
17th Apr 2025
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

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

17th Apr 2025
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
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August 2026
18th Aug 2026
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August 2026

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

18th Aug 2026
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Polar Pong
10th Jun 2012
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Polar Pong

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

10th Jun 2012
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
3rd Mar 2021
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2021
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
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Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
5th Feb 2021
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Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications

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

5th Feb 2021
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even before starting to write code.
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Gif to MP4 encoding in the browser, the terminal & everywhere else TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the...
6th Nov 2025
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Gif to MP4 encoding in the browser, the terminal & everywhere else

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2025
TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it. My kids enjoy building cute (and...
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Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
2nd Jan 2013
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Focus on the line, not the dot

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

2nd Jan 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
17th Dec 2024
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

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

17th Dec 2024
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
3rd Feb 2024
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise

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

3rd Feb 2024
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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On becoming a day person My biggest game-changer
19th Mar 2026
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On becoming a day person

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

19th Mar 2026
My biggest game-changer
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The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a...
27th Aug 2013
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The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team

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

27th Aug 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision [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...
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
14th Sep 2026
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

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

14th Sep 2026
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
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IRIS (Infra-Red, in situ) Project Updates A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a...
9th Mar 2024
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IRIS (Infra-Red, in situ) Project Updates

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

9th Mar 2024
A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a multi-year project of mine to deliver a full-stack verifiable “from logic gates to Rust crates” supply chain for security-critical applications such as password managers. At this...
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What I'm up to - August 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the...
1st Aug 2022
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What I'm up to - August 2022

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the entire month traveling. It was great to be back in LA and Denver for a bit. - For coffee on the road, I...
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. Highlights for this release are: New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
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how to be authentic Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind...
24th Aug 2026
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how to be authentic

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

24th Aug 2026
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind when I try to understand why I have such admiration for and disgust with mainstream pop, hip-hop, and rap music.
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

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

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
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Digital Trees Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow...
1st Jul 2024
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Digital Trees

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

1st Jul 2024
Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow fruit, and they’re aesthetically pleasing. What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI). It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
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Focus Management and Inert
19th Oct 2020
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Focus Management and Inert

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

19th Oct 2020
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
1st Jan 2023
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022

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

1st Jan 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
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Colophon Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
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Colophon

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation details than the first post of a...
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GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for...
4th Mar 2024
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GTK 4 Porting And A Bit Of Whimsy

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

4th Mar 2024
I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
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I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
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I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

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

7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it. The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
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Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure...
8th Mar 2023
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Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon

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

8th Mar 2023
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure elements. But how do we come to trust our secure elements? I have been searching for solutions to this thorny supply chain problem. Ideally, one can directly inspect the...
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Tunes
1st May 2009
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Tunes

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

1st May 2009
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Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
1st Oct 2024
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Recently

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

1st Oct 2024
Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing

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

6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please… Google has created one of the best operating systems designed...
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement My AI homelab named Daddy
27th Apr 2026
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement

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

27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
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The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
3rd Mar 2019
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The Federation Fallacy

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

3rd Mar 2019
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
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Austria 2022 Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We had a lovely time although...
27th Oct 2022
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Austria 2022

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Oct 2022
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,...
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Progressions Composing sound-generating tools
12th May 2026
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Progressions

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

12th May 2026
Composing sound-generating tools
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Playing with Streamlit and LLMs. Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools...
19th Jun 2023
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Playing with Streamlit and LLMs.

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

19th Jun 2023
Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against their internal usecases. I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

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

10th Oct 2017
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero

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

4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
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My Favorite Web Apps and Tools I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
26th Dec 2018
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My Favorite Web Apps and Tools

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

26th Dec 2018
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
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April updates Another great month, with lots of updates!
4th May 2018
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April updates

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

4th May 2018
Another great month, with lots of updates!
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2024 Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s...
31st May 2024
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2024

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

31st May 2024
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s some photos that give a better idea of what the device is about. Above are the main parts of the device. The construction is simple and straightforward: big battery, screen with...
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I don’t want to repeat repeat myself Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale...
3rd Jul 2026
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I don’t want to repeat repeat myself

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2026
Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale CLI”. After the typo was fixed, I wanted to find other cases of accidentally repeated words or phrases. I used two regular expressions to search every codebase for unnecessary...
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023 Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
1st Oct 2023
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023

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

1st Oct 2023
Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
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Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
20th Jun 2022
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Clickable Links Inside XML

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

20th Jun 2022
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

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

2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
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Improving Github's New Design Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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Improving Github's New Design

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

7th Jul 2020
Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
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Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
1st Apr 2025
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Systems model of API deprecation

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

1st Apr 2025
In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
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Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic...
8th Dec 2024
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Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2024
Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety (testing the irrelevant)?
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What I'm up to - January 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jan 2026
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What I'm up to - January 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...
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Building Custom React Hooks Illustrated notes on building custom React hooks
2nd Nov 2019
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Building Custom React Hooks

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

2nd Nov 2019
Illustrated notes on building custom React hooks
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Optimizing memory use in markdown parser I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which...
22nd Aug 2026
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Optimizing memory use in markdown parser

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

22nd Aug 2026
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which I mean: my friend Claude does the porting, I’m just directing. It uses markdown-rs (a CommonMark + GFM parser) markdown parser so I ported it too. Then I optimized it. This post...
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How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a...
22nd Sep 2019
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How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects

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

22nd Sep 2019
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unknown depth, such as a JSON object, and that’s often best solved recursively. Even though recursion is rare, it is...
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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content...
8th Mar 2022
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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

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

8th Mar 2022
h2 span {color: #a5a5a5;} table.InCell { margin-left: -0.27rem; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents { background-color: #ebf9f8; border: solid 1px #89cac7; } #blog .post_content .inline-table-of-contents div a { color: #783f19; } #blog...
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If composers were hackers
1st Apr 2023
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If composers were hackers

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

1st Apr 2023
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Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
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Battery Status API: We need to talk

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

13th Jan 2016
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External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
15th Nov 2007
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External popup links using jQuery

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

15th Nov 2007
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
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Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined
5th Jul 2015
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Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined

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

5th Jul 2015
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
4th Apr 2024
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire

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

4th Apr 2024
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
24th Jul 2020
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2020
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
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Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
6th Dec 2023
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Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B

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

6th Dec 2023
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
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Recently A little late on this one, but I got around to it! Reading I got stuck on two books: books that I...
6th Jun 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2025
A little late on this one, but I got around to it! Reading I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century by Ross Barkan,...
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[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
11th Jan 2020
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[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2020
Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
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OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
6th Aug 2018
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OpenAI Five intro

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

6th Aug 2018
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
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Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8th Apr 2024
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Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months

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

8th Apr 2024
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.
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Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
24th Aug 2023
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Getting our focus back

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2023
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
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Password Rules Are Bullshit Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If...
10th Mar 2017
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Password Rules Are Bullshit

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

10th Mar 2017
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules. If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv — Jeff Atwood
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The origins of my computing journey <![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX...
24th Aug 2026
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The origins of my computing journey

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

24th Aug 2026
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned. At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session...
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
2nd May 2024
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales

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

2nd May 2024
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
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Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the...
9th Dec 2020
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Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser

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

9th Dec 2020
Technical breakdown of how the NPM module ani-cursor converts .ani files into CSS animations in the browser.
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
20th Jul 2024
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here

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

20th Jul 2024
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
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Dreams of Late Summer Here on a summer night in the grass and lilac smell Drunk on the crickets and the starry sky, Oh...
6th Sep 2025
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Dreams of Late Summer

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

6th Sep 2025
Here on a summer night in the grass and lilac smell Drunk on the crickets and the starry sky, Oh what fine stories we could tell With this moonlight to tell them by. A summer night, and you, and paradise, So lovely and so filled with grace, Above your head, the universe has hung...
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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
7th May 2026
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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech

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

7th May 2026
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Park Games As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin...
17th Sep 2022
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Park Games

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

17th Sep 2022
As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
1st Dec 2024
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2024
I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
5th Dec 2022
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How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App

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

5th Dec 2022
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
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