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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
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Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population? As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
2nd Jul 2021
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Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2021
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
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Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really,...
2nd Nov 2020
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Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream

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

2nd Nov 2020
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking...
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Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
21st Mar 2021
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Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions

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

21st Mar 2021
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
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Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
8th Oct 2024
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Credit where credit is due

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

8th Oct 2024
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels,...
16th Feb 2026
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Take a hard game, and make it shorter

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

16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024 The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024

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

7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
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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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How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
4th Aug 2012
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How coffee shops helped my startup

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

4th Aug 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
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What I'm up to - November 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
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What I'm up to - November 2024

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

1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
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Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell...
4th Jul 2023
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Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell

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

4th Jul 2023
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
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Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
10th Apr 2012
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Must-have Windows Apps

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

10th Apr 2012
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC) IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats Media Player Classic -...
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Good names form Galois connections
1st Apr 2024
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Good names form Galois connections

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

1st Apr 2024
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
13th Jul 2015
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[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier

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

13th Jul 2015
I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update) Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
6th Nov 2017
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)

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

6th Nov 2017
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7 devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1 Virtual Suica...
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search

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

4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the...
7th Dec 2025
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

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

7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
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I Like Makefiles I like makefiles. I first used a makefile more than ten years ago. Even back then, it looked like...
18th Sep 2024
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I Like Makefiles

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

18th Sep 2024
I like makefiles. I first used a makefile more than ten years ago. Even back then, it looked like some ancient technology used by the graybeard Linux wizards. Years passed, and new build tools came and went, but I kept seeing makefiles still used here and there. I got used to...
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Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
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Agents are commoditizing the complement

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

3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.
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New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
2nd Jan 2018
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New Site, New Theme for 2018

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

2nd Jan 2018
Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
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offer up is the tinder of marketplaces OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
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offer up is the tinder of marketplaces

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

24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
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Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
31st Jul 2018
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Low Power Mode on the Mac

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

31st Jul 2018
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
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Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
1st Mar 2025
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Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree

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

1st Mar 2025
An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
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Tearing down the Rewind app Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
25th Dec 2022
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Tearing down the Rewind app

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

25th Dec 2022
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different...
1st Dec 2025
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects

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

1st Dec 2025
Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different organizational systems. Sometimes I have to change them due to actual life circumstances changing; other times, due to the old one just wearing off[1]. Well, my life circumstances...
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JS13K 2018 Retrospective In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
15th Oct 2018
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JS13K 2018 Retrospective

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

15th Oct 2018
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!” Concept A couple of years ago I came up with...
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Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
24th Jul 2021
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Sharing The Things We Use

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

24th Jul 2021
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a “uses” page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
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Abstraction, not syntax
12th Oct 2025
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Abstraction, not syntax

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

12th Oct 2025
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React.js: The Documentary & Q&A In 2022 I had the great pleasure to chat with Ida Bechtle (https://twitter.com/BechtleIda) as part...
19th Feb 2023
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React.js: The Documentary & Q&A

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2023
In 2022 I had the great pleasure to chat with Ida Bechtle (https://twitter.com/BechtleIda) as part of a retelling of the early story of the creation of the React.js JavaScript library (I wrote about this previously here). The documentary is now available to watch for free on...
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can...
30th Apr 2025
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2025
AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can also generate full-stack GPU flame graphs for providing new insights into gaming performance, especially when coupled with FlameScope (an older open source project of mine). Here's an...
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gRPC is easy to misconfigure Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
14th Mar 2021
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gRPC is easy to misconfigure

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2021
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
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xoxo You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces...
16th Sep 2014
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xoxo

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

16th Sep 2014
You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces into moments and memories and bonds to hold onto beyond those polygons, yellow, orange, and red.
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My portable ergonomic setup In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
3rd Jun 2024
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My portable ergonomic setup

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

3rd Jun 2024
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids. That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally. One guaranteed trigger...
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
8th Jan 2024
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Six

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

8th Jan 2024
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
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Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
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Recently

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

1st Jun 2023
Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
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Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
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Postleaf: reimagined

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

26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
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[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
3rd Mar 2023
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[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter

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

3rd Mar 2023
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
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Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
7th Nov 2023
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Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire

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

7th Nov 2023
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices. One of...
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How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
20th Apr 2021
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How I Built My Blog

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

20th Apr 2021
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
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Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
5th Jul 2022
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Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System

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

5th Jul 2022
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
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Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023 Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
13th Sep 2023
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Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023

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

13th Sep 2023
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
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Understanding Bazel remote caching A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with...
5th Sep 2025
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Understanding Bazel remote caching

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

5th Sep 2025
A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with a remote cache but without remote execution
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10x engineers talk to users I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
6th Mar 2023
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10x engineers talk to users

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

6th Mar 2023
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
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Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy...
14th Nov 2009
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Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths

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

14th Nov 2009
Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy chords.
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The Epic Stack Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
10th May 2023
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The Epic Stack

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th May 2023
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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How To Google Your Errors ---
4th Jan 2018
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How To Google Your Errors

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

4th Jan 2018
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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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Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value) The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
7th Oct 2013
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Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value)

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

7th Oct 2013
The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
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Windows 98 Icons are Great In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
26th Feb 2015
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Windows 98 Icons are Great

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

26th Feb 2015
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing. Why are they so good? Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
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Bulk actions take tag_id, not tag The tag key in a bulk action's metadata is renamed to tag_id
2nd Jan 2025
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Bulk actions take tag_id, not tag

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

2nd Jan 2025
The tag key in a bulk action's metadata is renamed to tag_id
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A website for everyone In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. The...
18th Aug 2026
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A website for everyone

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

18th Aug 2026
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. The post A website for everyone appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project

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

12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
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ckBTC internals: event log
1st May 2023
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ckBTC internals: event log

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

1st May 2023
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
a week ago
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

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

a week ago
What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

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

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
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How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
8th Oct 2024
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How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool

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

8th Oct 2024
Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
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Recently Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned...
3rd Oct 2022
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Recently

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

3rd Oct 2022
Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned off, the humidifiers on. The A/C off, the heat on. I’m still, more than a year after leaving the west coast, grateful for the presence of seasons to keep me aware of time...
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10 Myths of Enterprise Python (Originally posted on the PayPal Engineering blog, reproduced here with minor updates, link fixes,...
25th Aug 2015
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10 Myths of Enterprise Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2015
(Originally posted on the PayPal Engineering blog, reproduced here with minor updates, link fixes, etc.) PayPal enjoys a remarkable amount of linguistic pluralism in its programming culture. In addition to the long-standing popularity of C++ and Java, an increasing number of...
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Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens? No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
26th May 2024
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Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens?

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th May 2024
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
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Servers can last a long time We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
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Servers can last a long time

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
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PreSonus Eris speakers PreSonus makes good computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100 for a...
8th Jun 2024
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PreSonus Eris speakers

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

8th Jun 2024
PreSonus makes good computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100 for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube videos, compressed music, games. ...
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Daily Notes Pages Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
4th May 2022
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Daily Notes Pages

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

4th May 2022
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
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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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You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust
14th Sep 2018
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You can't "turn off the borrow checker" in Rust

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

14th Sep 2018
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Because web development used to be **FUN!** I still remember the exact moment when I discovered **jQuery**. It was a revelation: Can I suddenly...
18th Sep 2023
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Because web development used to be **FUN!**

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Sep 2023
I still remember the exact moment when I discovered **jQuery**. It was a revelation: Can I suddenly add logic to my pages in the same way I add styling? I surely can — this must be huge!
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Saved draft recipients We're making it easier to keep track of who you're collaborating with on your newsletters
30th Jun 2020
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Saved draft recipients

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

30th Jun 2020
We're making it easier to keep track of who you're collaborating with on your newsletters
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eBPF Documentary eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it...
9th Mar 2024
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eBPF Documentary

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2024
eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it accepted had so far been an untold story of strategy and ingenuity. The eBPF documentary, published late last year, tells this story by interviewing key players from 2014 including...
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025 Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025

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

11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
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Drawing mandalas with JavaScript and canvas Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
2nd Jan 2015
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Drawing mandalas with JavaScript and canvas

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

2nd Jan 2015
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
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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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You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
1st May 2023
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You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap

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

1st May 2023
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal. They should be universal, though. Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible. They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
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Incredible Vitest Defaults (article) Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results,...
2nd Sep 2025
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Incredible Vitest Defaults (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2025
Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results, letting you write reliable tests with less effort.
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June 2023
1st Jun 2023
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June 2023

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

1st Jun 2023
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Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option? Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
7th Aug 2009
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Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option?

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

7th Aug 2009
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
1st Dec 2022
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
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3 Years of Extremely Remote Work In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two...
21st May 2025
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3 Years of Extremely Remote Work

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st May 2025
In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two weeks, followed by my usual 7am start, Monday to Saturday. I'm working remotely from Australia for a US firm (Intel) who does not have a local office here. I'm not complaining. I...
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Electric Geek Transportation Systems I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
20th Aug 2019
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Electric Geek Transportation Systems

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

20th Aug 2019
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
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Compilers and AI 'cyber' defense
10th Jul 2026
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Compilers and AI 'cyber' defense

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

10th Jul 2026
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Working on a virtualenv without magic
2nd Oct 2016
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Working on a virtualenv without magic

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

2nd Oct 2016
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A list of programming playgrounds I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about...
17th Apr 2023
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A list of programming playgrounds

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

17th Apr 2023
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking the other day about how I didn’t have a great list of playgrounds to refer to. So I asked on Mastodon for links to cool playgrounds. Here’s what I came up with. I’d love to know what I...
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SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
22nd Feb 2018
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SIGCSE 2018 notes

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

22nd Feb 2018
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
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Writing tests with Claude Code - part 1 - initial results In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and...
9th Mar 2026
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Writing tests with Claude Code - part 1 - initial results

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2026
In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and then perform a refactoring action, using hand-written tests as the safety net. In that post, I wrote that I didn’t want Claude to touch the tests themselves, and why. I was still...
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Why you need a physical address in your newsletter Providing a real address is important for compliance.
1st Mar 2020
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Why you need a physical address in your newsletter

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

1st Mar 2020
Providing a real address is important for compliance.
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My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

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

3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
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LambdaQ v2; now with optional task tokens! Want to use SQS without Step Functions? Now LambdaQ supports SQS without Step Functions.
9th May 2024
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LambdaQ v2; now with optional task tokens!

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

9th May 2024
Want to use SQS without Step Functions? Now LambdaQ supports SQS without Step Functions.
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as...
5th Apr 2025
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive

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

5th Apr 2025
The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as one of their embedded media players
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Extreme #include discipline for C++ code C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive...
12th Apr 2022
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Extreme #include discipline for C++ code

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

12th Apr 2022
C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive re-parsing of the same .h header files. In SumatraPDF I’m using an extreme #include discipline to keep compilation times in check. The rule is simple: a .h file cannot #include...
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Czech localization Czech localization
1st Oct 2025
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Czech localization

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

1st Oct 2025
Czech localization
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Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
2nd Sep 2024
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Reasons to write design docs

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

2nd Sep 2024
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communication as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
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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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The Two Classes of Software Engineer “Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer

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

5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
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What is Backend Web Development? The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of...
7th Aug 2023
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What is Backend Web Development?

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

7th Aug 2023
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications. It primarily focuses on handling the logic, data processing, and communication between the user’s web browser and the server.
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Grab browser links and titles in one click When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
3rd Jan 2025
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Grab browser links and titles in one click

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

3rd Jan 2025
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the... “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An...
23rd Jan 2021
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?”

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

23rd Jan 2021
“How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An Engineering Manager Hey, real quick: how long have you been managing? If it’s less than two years, honey, the answer is “you don’t.” Your feelings about your performance don’t mean much in...
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A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
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A clever way to style the <mark> element

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

1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
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Moon Jar
22nd Sep 2018
1

Moon Jar

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

22nd Sep 2018
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On the software supply-chain doom spiral .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} Hackers are pwning...
24th Apr 2026
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On the software supply-chain doom spiral

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

24th Apr 2026
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} Hackers are pwning packages at an exhausting clip. But the hacks are hackneyed. What’s new is the doom cycle: Code that steals keys to publish code to steal more keys. A zombie army of infected code. And AI...
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Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
2nd Oct 2012
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Maximize your excitement

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

2nd Oct 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024 Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024

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

5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
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Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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Querying through shadow roots

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

4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have...
13th Jan 2026
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter

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

13th Jan 2026
A while back I wrote about the linear rate limit algorithms leaky bucket and GCRA. Since then I have been vexed by how common it is to implement rate limiting using complicated and wasteful algorithms (for example). But linear (and exponential) rate limiters have a...
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Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
5th Sep 2023
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Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic

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

5th Sep 2023
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
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Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
17th Apr 2023
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Finally!

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

17th Apr 2023
I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
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Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games A gauntlet thrown
8th Sep 2025
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Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games

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

8th Sep 2025
A gauntlet thrown
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Childcare Options in Japan Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available....
8th May 2024
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Childcare Options in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2024
Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available. Services will vary greatly depending on your location, the ages of your children, and the time of year. This article explores all of the most common childcare offerings, to get you...
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the...
9th Apr 2026
1

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

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

9th Apr 2026
A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the path. A third sentence that tantalizes and alludes to content to follow. Following is an initial explanatory paragraph. It serves to help back up the previous paragraphs, and start to...
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An update on leap seconds It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been...
4th Dec 2022
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An update on leap seconds

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

4th Dec 2022
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick around, so I’ll aim to...
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November 2022
1st Nov 2022
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November 2022

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

1st Nov 2022
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Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
4th Dec 2022
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Grit Multipliers

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

4th Dec 2022
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
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Website Workflow
1st May 2012
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Website Workflow

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

1st May 2012
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Computer Use Models Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
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Computer Use Models

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

18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line. I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
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Checking for True or False How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways: One "bad" way: if variable ==...
1st Oct 2020
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Checking for True or False

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

1st Oct 2020
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways: One "bad" way: if variable == True: Another "bad" way: if variable is True: And the good way, recommended even in the Programming Recommendations of PEP8: if variable: The "bad" ways are not only frowned upon...
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I see a future in jj
22nd Oct 2025
1

I see a future in jj

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

22nd Oct 2025
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Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
20th Aug 2022
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Mammon

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

20th Aug 2022
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
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Linux Pipes are Slow Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
25th Aug 2024
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Linux Pipes are Slow

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

25th Aug 2024
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
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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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Back to the office Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
7th Oct 2022
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Back to the office

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

7th Oct 2022
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
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Whispering gallery
14th Apr 2026
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Whispering gallery

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

14th Apr 2026
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That Bullshit Income-Inequality Meme Memes can be fun and sometimes even informative, but when memes contain numbers — and particularly...
17th Jun 2024
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That Bullshit Income-Inequality Meme

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

17th Jun 2024
Memes can be fun and sometimes even informative, but when memes contain numbers — and particularly numbers without a source — memes can be deceptive and just plain wrong. For example, here’s a meme that’s been floating around that purports to illustrate income inequality in the...
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Annual Review 2025 As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox...
2nd Jan 2026
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Annual Review 2025

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

2nd Jan 2026
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox coffee shop in Shaxi, the sky is pure blue and the farmers fields below are a dusty yellow. My fingers are freezing as I type but the pain is negated by the joy of wearing a...
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Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
2 weeks ago
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Most Software Was Already Slop

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

2 weeks ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
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Protological Control: an introduction
13th Aug 2012
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Protological Control: an introduction

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

13th Aug 2012
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
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What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon

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

28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
14th Mar 2025
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?

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

14th Mar 2025
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
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More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell! Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get...
6th Oct 2025
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More Apps, More Features, More Cowbell!

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

6th Oct 2025
Hot off the release of OS 8.0.2, we’ve got a great new batch of feature updates for you as we get closer to the release of elementary OS 8.1! Maps The first stable release of elementary Maps is now available for download on any Linux OS. For now we’ve focused on some of the...
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Squash and Stretch Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore...
13th Apr 2026
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Squash and Stretch

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

13th Apr 2026
Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.
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Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
13th Mar 2019
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Prescription Form UI Improvements

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

13th Mar 2019
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn't bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
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Getting A Local Mastodon Setup In Docker This is the first in probably a series of posts as I dig into the technical aspects of mastodon. My...
2nd Jun 2024
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Getting A Local Mastodon Setup In Docker

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2024
This is the first in probably a series of posts as I dig into the technical aspects of mastodon. My goal is to get a better understanding of the design of ActivityPub and how mastodon itself is designed to use ActivityPub. Eventually I want to learn enough to maybe do some...
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Compare to None How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you...
23rd Feb 2023
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Compare to None

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

23rd Feb 2023
How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you would write is literally the same as the above question: if something is None: It reminds me of this joke: - How do you turn pseudocode into Python? - You add .py at the end of the...
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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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Abstract Syntax Trees by example Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
5th Jan 2021
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Abstract Syntax Trees by example

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

5th Jan 2021
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
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Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds ---
2nd Dec 2017
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Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds

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

2nd Dec 2017
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article) What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
30th Jun 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023

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

30th Jun 2023
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025 This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up...
9th Jul 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025

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

9th Jul 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
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Announcing Rust Contributors
12th Jan 2017
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Announcing Rust Contributors

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

12th Jan 2017
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Galloping Search I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used...
7th Dec 2024
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Galloping Search

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2024
I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbounded items
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Reasons to use your shell's job control Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me...
3rd Jul 2024
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Reasons to use your shell's job control

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

3rd Jul 2024
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
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Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
25th Dec 2022
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Finding Fulfillment

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

25th Dec 2022
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
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Keeping your job board legal in Japan I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
10th Jan 2023
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Keeping your job board legal in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2023
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
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Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
12th Jul 2023
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Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex

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

12th Jul 2023
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448...
29th Sep 2025
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2025
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448 characters void main(){vec3 c,p,K=vec3(3,1,0);for(float...
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A cautionary tale about continuity
12th Apr 2025
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A cautionary tale about continuity

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

12th Apr 2025
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Hello Internet
9th May 2020
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Hello Internet

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

9th May 2020
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2014-03-08 www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
8th Mar 2014
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2014-03-08

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

8th Mar 2014
www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
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constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
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constantly divisionless random numbers

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

5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
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2015-01-10 what-if.xkcd.com/124/
10th Jan 2015
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2015-01-10

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

10th Jan 2015
what-if.xkcd.com/124/
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"Lazy Afternoon" Barbershop Tag I wrote and recorded a barbershop tag for Chelsea.
29th Jun 2009
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"Lazy Afternoon" Barbershop Tag

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

29th Jun 2009
I wrote and recorded a barbershop tag for Chelsea.
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How Binary JSON Works in YDB Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
8th Jun 2022
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How Binary JSON Works in YDB

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

8th Jun 2022
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

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

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
31st Jan 2023
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats?

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

31st Jan 2023
Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
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#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
3rd Dec 2019
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#12 accessible poll yes/no

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2019
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
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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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Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
12th Feb 2018
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Stay Hungry

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

12th Feb 2018
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
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I'm glad I factored out jQuery I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
13th Dec 2014
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I'm glad I factored out jQuery

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

13th Dec 2014
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
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How I Update and Deploy this Site I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and...
5th Sep 2023
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How I Update and Deploy this Site

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

5th Sep 2023
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to a halt. I used to love running my own servers, but I don't have the time to do it for my personal site - I just want it to...
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Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
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Middle management roles are also a trap.

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

8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made being...
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Arc Reactor & Repulsor
30th Oct 2012
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Arc Reactor & Repulsor

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

30th Oct 2012
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Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
14th Mar 2009
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Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda

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

14th Mar 2009
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
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What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive... Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
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What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive structure

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

11th Aug 2016
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
29th Aug 2007
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Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php

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

29th Aug 2007
When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
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Some blogging myths A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was...
5th Jun 2023
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Some blogging myths

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

5th Jun 2023
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post. here are the myths: myth: you need to be original myth: you need to...
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the...
2nd Nov 2021
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas

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

2nd Nov 2021
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the most important part of any product-focused organization. I think there is a misconception in the software industry that product managers have a good sense of “what users want”,...
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August 2021
1st Aug 2021
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August 2021

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

1st Aug 2021
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What I'm up to - April 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Apr 2025
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What I'm up to - April 2025

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

1st Apr 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 - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...
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Stroustrup's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
11th Dec 2024
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Stroustrup's Rule

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

11th Dec 2024
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrup's Rule I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
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Explain Like I'm Five: React This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
29th May 2021
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Explain Like I'm Five: React

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

29th May 2021
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
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My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
16th May 2016
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My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned

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

16th May 2016
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
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It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
16th Jul 2024
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It’s hard to grow without trust

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

16th Jul 2024
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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

16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
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What I'm up to - February 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
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What I'm up to - February 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
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What's next As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is...
2nd Aug 2023
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What's next

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

2nd Aug 2023
As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is closed. It was chaotic and tumultuous. But it was also fun and I learned loads about myself, what I'm capable of achieving, and perhaps most importantly what matters to me when it comes...
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I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient...
15th Oct 2025
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I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

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

15th Oct 2025
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file. Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work. Christmas Lights Diarrhea Most color themes...
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Information is still free Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it...
7th Jan 2026
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Information is still free

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

7th Jan 2026
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely. The post Information is still free appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
8th Jan 2023
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models

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

8th Jan 2023
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
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Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
4th Aug 2024
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Double your productivity without more work or stress

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

4th Aug 2024
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

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

10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
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Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
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Humanity's Last Exam

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

20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
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PostHog × Vercel: feature flags, minus the plumbing If you’re building on Vercel and using PostHog for feature flags and experiments , you’ve...
2nd Feb 2026
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PostHog × Vercel: feature flags, minus the plumbing

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

2nd Feb 2026
If you’re building on Vercel and using PostHog for feature flags and experiments , you’ve probably had some version of this setup: flags defined in…
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

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

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
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The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
11th Feb 2024
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The vastness of the ocean

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

11th Feb 2024
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
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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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Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3rd Sep 2024
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Recently

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

3rd Sep 2024
Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
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Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
8th Jul 2023
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Open sourcing the nginx playground

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

8th Jul 2023
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are...
12th Sep 2019
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter

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

12th Sep 2019
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an
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Building an Arcade Stick I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
3rd Jun 2019
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Building an Arcade Stick

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

3rd Jun 2019
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product: Materials and Components I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
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Review: The Lost Room
6th Aug 2023
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Review: The Lost Room

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

6th Aug 2023
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Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
8th Aug 2023
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Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2023
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
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Documentation Belongs in Engineering Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
29th Aug 2023
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Documentation Belongs in Engineering

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2023
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
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Recomposed: Spring 1 A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about...
1st May 2023
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Recomposed: Spring 1

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

1st May 2023
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth. I am not an engineer and I don't pretend to be one. I have web development chops, but I loathe JavaScript and lean into my design background (CSS...
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Don’t forget to localize your icons Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing...
11th Nov 2024
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Don’t forget to localize your icons

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

11th Nov 2024
Former United States president and war criminal George W. Bush gave a speech in Australia, directing a v-for-victory hand gesture at the assembled crowd. It wasn’t received the way he intended. What he failed to realize is that this gesture means a lot of different things to a...
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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
22nd Jun 2022
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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2022
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
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The best product analytics tools for startups, compared A tale as old as time: a founding team ships their MVP, installs Google Analytics , watches...
4th Mar 2026
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The best product analytics tools for startups, compared

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

4th Mar 2026
A tale as old as time: a founding team ships their MVP, installs Google Analytics , watches pageview numbers go up, and feels good about themselves…
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Data and acquired consent Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's...
4th Nov 2025
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Data and acquired consent

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

4th Nov 2025
Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's okay...until it's not. If you're a brand, a content creator, or just someone on the internet, and you come across someone sharing their email on a platform for the purpose of being...
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Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
31st Aug 2023
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Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments

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

31st Aug 2023
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
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Breaking Into Tech on Hard Mode: A Supply/Demand Analysis of Career Options Markets are efficient, right? I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
23rd Nov 2025
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Breaking Into Tech on Hard Mode: A Supply/Demand Analysis of Career Options

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

23rd Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right? I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
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Leaving Delaware This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
5th Feb 2025
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Leaving Delaware

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

5th Feb 2025
This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
2nd Dec 2021
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Fave New Podcasts in 2021

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

2nd Dec 2021
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
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Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
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Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
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