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Seán Barry
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
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What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
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over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
Maggie Appleton
December 2023
a year ago
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024 Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
a year ago
Making software...
My Raspberry Pi Desktop My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's...
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over a year ago
My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
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I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
alexwlchan
Creating a Python dictionary with multiple, equivalent keys In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times...
over a year ago
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In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together. I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs: pairs = { 'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …}, 'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
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a year ago
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
blag
Now This is a /now page. Work I work at Turso Database. Learning Rust and C.
a year ago
alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task. I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts. Each...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, Griff. You were a good boy. A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend.
5 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s...
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a year ago
That’s a quote from Cindy Li — “We're all just temporarily abled”. I first heard it in Sarah’s course and it’s been on repeat in my mind ever since June 6th. June 6th I was on vacation at the beach with my family and tried something that, looking back now, maybe I’m too old for....
MMapped blog
Scaling Rust builds with Bazel
over a year ago
The Changelog
So Many Caring People In This World When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the...
over a year ago
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that...
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
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over a year ago
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
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a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
Ink & Switch
00 · Keyhive Background Contextualizing Keyhive
11 months ago
Blog of Simple...
Meta fined $102 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission
8 months ago
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
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Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our new objective: Nail Self Serve The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate...
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over a year ago
The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate strategy as 'Nail X', where X is the thing we need…
PostHog's RSS Feed
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
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over a year ago
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023 The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode? This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
The Pragmatic...
Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud - Exclusive An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud...
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over a year ago
An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud strategy, and whether or not to onboard to the cloud.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev’s 2024 Recap: Challenges, Milestones, and the Road Ahead In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my...
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In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my plate, but while I’ve succeeded at passing off responsibilities to others, I somehow didn’t gain any more free time. This is because working with new people also created new ideas...
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
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October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
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Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
Blog of Simple...
Web analytics for nonprofits
a year ago
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
5 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new
over a year ago
dthompson
Guile-Websocket 0.1 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an...
over a year ago
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. source tarball: https://files.dthompson.us/guile-websocket/guile-websocket-0.1.tar.gz signature:...
A Smart Bear
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...
a year ago
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
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Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
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over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
Florian Bellmann |...
Processes don't create ownership, people do Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
a year ago
Charles Chen
Merging Objects in Google Cloud Storage with Compose and C# Manage large sets of data using a nifty feature of Google Cloud Storage
a year ago
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
a year ago
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a year ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall? Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not...
10 months ago
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How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did. I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
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over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […] The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maggie Appleton
Leaving Elicit Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave
a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Best Rust books for 2024 There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are...
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There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
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When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
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Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
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Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
HTMHell
Adding Complementary Performance Data to Your Site Getting performance data from real users can transform assumptions about how a user experiences a...
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over a year ago
Getting performance data from real users can transform assumptions about how a user experiences a site into objective, actionable information. In the last two years, there has been increased awareness of web performance thanks to Google's Core Web Vitals (CWV) metrics. These...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
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This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
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Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
Blog of Simple...
The path to 1M ARR - May Update
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for...
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Simple Does Not Mean Ugly 2019-03-26 I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for designers to keep their products as simple as possible - and I couldn’t agree more. A lot of designers tend to think they need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to UI concepts that...
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
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From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems: You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties. This is specifically in the context of...
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It...
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a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a plunger will temporarily fix it. We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary wall sprayer both controlled by the...
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
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There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Laying myself off from Amazon Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize...
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Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental…
Liz Denys
Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023 Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
a year ago
Computer Things
State and time are the same thing Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints.1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two...
Maggie Appleton
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
2 months ago
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8 Available Today We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on...
7 months ago
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We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on several high-quality computers! With OS 8, we’ve focused in on: Creating a new Secure Session that ensures applications respect your privacy and require your consent A brand new...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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over a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
the singularity is...
A disgusting playbook So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started...
a year ago
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a year ago
So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started comma, and I probably will fail because of this. Cruise Automation is a good example here. If they told the truth, they would be out of business. In 2016, they were bought by GM for...
Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
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3 months ago
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
Epic Web Dev
A Deep Dive in Tailwind Font Settings (tip) Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with...
11 months ago
Alex MacCaw
AGI, agents, and timelines AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
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AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines. The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
A Beautiful Site
When To Create CSS Parts I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS...
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over a year ago
I was recently asked a really good question on Twitter: when shouldn't an element be a CSS Part? I've spent a lot of time building web components, most of which are intended for design systems, and my answer is pretty straight-forward. Every part you expose is an API that you're...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in...
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Here’s what I learned about calling LLM APIs from the browser when building AI chat functionality in my note taking app Edna. The API I care about is getting LLM response to a question in a streaming way. OpenAI pioneered this and created...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: October 2023
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021 Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits...
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Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits as of July 2021. "Um… what?" I know, I know. You…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
HTMHell
#1 button disguised as a link Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website"...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website" src="logo.jpg" title="Name of website"> </button> Issues and how to fix them Wrong usage of the button element. There’s an element for linking to external sites (<a>). Do not change...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - October update
a year ago
macwright.com
About Placemark.io Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project. I have no qualms with sharing the answers publicly, so here they are: I stopped Placemark because it didn’t generate enough revenue and I lost faith that there was a...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
David Crawshaw
2015-03-01 gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
Steve Klabnik
What comes after open source
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Positioning Elements & Scrollytelling in CSS Notes on how to use the position property in CSS to make scrollytelling stories
over a year ago
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
a year ago
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
For Sale: Used Domain (**Clean Title**) Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Bryan Braun has an interesting post about his experience with what he calls a “haunted domain”: He buys a domain that seems fine on the surface. When he begins using it, he notices some things aren’t right (organic search traffic, for example, is dead). After some investigation,...
Confessions of a...
What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Searching for GA4 Alternatives? Top 10 Reliable Options for Google Analyticss
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The open source gift exchange I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
Maggie Appleton
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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a year ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
Yale E360
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With...
a year ago
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a year ago
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong. With great logs, you can see what your application is doing. And without them? Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out. Instead, you wonder why your customers...
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TLDR: Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one). ••• On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
David Heinemeier...
Waiting on red Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little...
5 months ago
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Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little red man to turn green before crossing an empty intersection, in the rain, even at night. Nobody is coming! Why don't you just cross?! It seems silly, but the underlying philosophy is...
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React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state lives in useState, useReducer or in this.state of a class component, and changing it updates your app. But then there's a vast ocean of state not managed by React. This includes...
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I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on reading specifications. I normally emphasize writing specs, so this one will need a different approach. While working on it, I had an idea that might make teaching TLA+— and other...
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Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
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Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
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We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
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New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here. Some notes on for loops I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
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On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
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We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA. It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
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I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore, so I set it up in my office. It's got 61 keys and you can hook up a pedal to it, too! But when you hook it up to the computer, you can't type with it. I mean, that's expected—it...
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It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer. The good ol' days # You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
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In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
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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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Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut 2022-11-14 It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
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OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
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Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme 1 of things. I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it. Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way. Introducing Yet...
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Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
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It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative, so your website wins, and you can be proud of it.
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When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
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Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that sentence is at best unclear and at worst nonsense. "Auth" can mean at least two things: authentication or authorization1. Which do we mean for an "auth system"? It's never perfectly...
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There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online. Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
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> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
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Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
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What we've learned about multi-product pricing (so far) PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large...
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PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large extra features thrown in – session replay, feature…
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I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow outside. I’m visiting New York to see Operation Mincemeat on Broadway – I was at the dress rehearsal yesterday, and I’ll be at the opening preview tonight. I’ve seen this show more...
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Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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Observability for Frontend Developers Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
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An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
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Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
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"While the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did not. In its place arose a new, more promising basis for justice and equality, the 14th Amendment, ensuring protection of the life, liberty, and property of all persons against deprivations without due process, and...
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What are the Rosettas of formal specification? First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
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First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1 I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
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Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
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I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
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Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
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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...
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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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I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
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It’s the future — you can stop using JPEGs For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software...
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For the past several months, after leaving Amazon I have been hard at work building a software product. I anticipate probably another 1-…
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A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
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I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself. It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
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We didn’t used to need an explanation for having kids. That was just life. That’s just what you did. But now we do, because now we don’t. So allow me: Having kids means making the most interesting people in the world. Not because toddlers or even teenagers are intellectual...
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ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
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I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
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I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
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In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
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This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
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I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
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There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
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Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
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I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
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During a difficult conversation, remember to take a minute One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a...
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One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten is to take a minute, or a week, after you’ve had a difficult conversation. By and large, people are not unreasonable. They’re not out to get you. They’re not trying to make your life miserable. They’re probably trying to do what...
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Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
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If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
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Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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Running an Effective Book Club at Work Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
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Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning. And they're great for group learning, too! We've run a book club at work a few times. Some sessions were more successful than others. The main way our book clubs faltered...
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The Perils of Hydration A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug....
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A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
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A Golden Era of Blogging Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
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Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit. He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
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Automated Data Scraping with Github Actions A neat trick I discovered from Mikeal Rogers
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Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
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One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
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From Mongolia to Japan as a Software Engineer I’d love to share my journey of almost six years of experience as a Mongolian software engineer in...
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I’d love to share my journey of almost six years of experience as a Mongolian software engineer in Tokyo. My path to securing a job in Japan was somewhat unconventional in that I applied for jobs in Japan through career fairs at my graduate school, the Indian Institute of...
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Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
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"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
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Shameless green: TDD in Go Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start with quick-and-dirty...
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Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called “Shameless Green”.
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System tests have failed When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In...
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When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In theory, system tests, which drive a headless browser through your actual interface, offer greater confidence that the entire machine is working as it ought. And because it runs in...
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Starting Today Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but...
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Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of positivity towards the rest of my life. The first 30 years have been filled with growth, learning, angst, pressure and a bundle of other wonderfully...
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An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
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Our unhealthy fixation with emulating #1 Being "undefeated" or "#1" might be more luck than you know.
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Representation Matters
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Pensieve: 10 Mar 2024 - Band of Brothers Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum...
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Ben dunphy continues to be a great conference business partner for me even though today was a glum call where we made some concessions. I wish he were better able to take things off my hands but also I need to step up
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Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
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Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
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Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
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People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
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Source Code for Life v0.1 Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
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My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
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We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
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datalists are more powerful than you think by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
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by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field. It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
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Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
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Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I...
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Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I understand how you feel. I […] The post Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog,...
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I’ve been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I’m announcing ThriftyName. What is...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
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I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
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I'm scared, and hopeful, and you can help Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and...
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Tomorrow, I'm boarding an airplane to attend a work event. It's my first time flying since 2018, and I'm excited to meet all my coworkers in person. The travel is, on whole, going to be a good experience. But there is a lot surrounding the travel that is stressful and scary. I'm...
Yale E360
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking...
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I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
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Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
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Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
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The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
Maggie Appleton
Gathering Structures How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
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Chris Nicholas
Building an AI toolbar for text editors I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some...
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I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some details on how it was created.
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3 Reasons to Upgrade Git For The First Time Ever Relatively new Git features that actually have me excited
over a year ago
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Equivalent Experiences: What Are They?
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Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
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Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
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Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
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Reasons I still love the fish shell I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day...
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I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to...
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Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
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At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
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“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
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The Best Games Ever Made This is a list of the top five computer games ever made. These are games that you should most...
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This is a list of the top five computer games ever made. These are games that you should most definitely play if you have any interest in playing games. Fallout 2 (1998) Fallout 2 is my favorite game of all time. It’s truly a masterpiece. It expanded on everything good about...
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My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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TokyoDev
How I obtained a J-FIND visa in Japan The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business...
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The J-Find Visa enables recent graduates to engage in activities such as job hunting, business startup, and other income-generating endeavors within Japan — opportunities that were previously inaccessible to do so. I was one of the first recipients of this visa, which provided me...
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Thoughts on Qutebrowser
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The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
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One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen What’s not in Lumen A Ghost in the Shell MaaM: Module as a...
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A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen What’s not in Lumen A Ghost in the Shell MaaM: Module as a microservice Packages all the way down ¶A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen If you use Laravel, you’ve probably heard of Lumen. In case you haven’t: Lumen is the micro-framework to...
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Community Versions for Rust
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Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
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Privacy Monthly: August 2023
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Go 1.13: xerrors Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection...
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Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection proposal The error inspection proposal adds several features to errors that have been tried elsewhere (in packages such as ), with some new implementation tricks. The proposal has...
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
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For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
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Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
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Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
HTMHell
DOM Clobbering Motivation When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection...
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Motivation When thinking of HTML-related security bugs, people often think of script injection attacks, which is also known as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). If an attacker is able to submit, modify or store content on your web page, they might include evil JavaScript code to modify...
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
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Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
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ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
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p(doom) Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
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Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices. I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
Julia Evans
Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend" Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time: a free guide to...
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Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time: a free guide to implementing your own DNS resolver in a weekend. The whole thing is about 200 lines of Python, including implementing all of the binary DNS parsing from scratch. Here’s the...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
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Basta’s Notes
Microwaves piss me off If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about...
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If you’ve spent enough time around me, you’ve probably already heard this rant. I’m upset about microwaves.
Eric Bailey
Building a Good Download… Button?
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Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016 Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work: A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
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Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
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What drives Optimal Overhead? The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
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The Little Coder's Predicament
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn’t shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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Implementing Netlify’s Image CDNz tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a...
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tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a pretty drastic decrease in overall bandwidth. Here are the numbers: Page Requests Old New Difference Home 60 1.3MB 293kB ▼ 78% (1.01MB) Colors 84 1.4MB 371kB ▼ 74%...
Eric Bailey
Dot website I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to...
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I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to my RSS feed (and thank you if you do!), the new URL is: https://ericwbailey.website/feed/feed.xml Before this website was .design it was a .com. I’m not a company, and my...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
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The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
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Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
blag
Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
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Eric Bailey
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
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I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
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Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
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I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
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The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Ink & Switch
05 · Syncing Keyhive How we sync Keyhive and Automerge
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A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
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Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
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For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Liz Denys
A quick hop across the southern border Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
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One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
Yale E360
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
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While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace. But that had me asking: why is it...
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
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whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
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Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
alexwlchan
Fast and random sampling in SQLite I was building a small feature for the Flickr Commons Explorer today: show a random selection of...
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I was building a small feature for the Flickr Commons Explorer today: show a random selection of photos from the entire collection. I wanted a fast and varied set of photos. This meant getting a random sample of rows from a SQLite table (because the Explorer stores all its data...
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What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
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I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
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[Renovated] Logic programming in C++ When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
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When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
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Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex...
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Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better 2021-12-17 Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
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[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
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Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
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We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
Blog of Simple...
CJEU: cookie-based analytics collects sensitive data
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
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We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Network Security What is Traffic Engineering?
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023 The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
Making software...
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
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over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...
A Smart Bear
Not disruptive, and proud of it I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about...
a year ago
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I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
Patrick Kayongo
When You Die the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust...
a year ago
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the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust who’ll rush to see them, as soon the time allows. your workplace will send an email and all your colleagues will be saddened whatsapp broadcasts will flood phones of those time...
Yale E360
Decaf is good, actually We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give...
a year ago
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a year ago
We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give me the good stuff." "Death before decaf." "Decaf isn't coffee." It has this reputation that it's bad and that coffee people avoid it. And yet, if you drink decaf, you're a true...
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
over a year ago
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A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all) made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
macwright.com
Roll I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent! My Olympus XA-2 is my default...
a year ago
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a year ago
I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent! My Olympus XA-2 is my default walking-around camera. I love it, but its age is showing and I’m envious of the crisp photos that people get out of later-era SLR film cameras. Thinking about getting a lightweight...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Family Tree Wisdom Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chris: My grandpa used to say that if you climb a rope every day, you’ll never not be able to do it. Ha, I love it! It got me thinking: I’d love to hear more folks’ “wisdom from the family tree”. Stuff like Chris shared, “My grandpa used to say…” I immediately had a few family...
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
Grant Slatton
AI follows auditability An essay about the order AI will move through the economy
11 months ago
Yale E360
Starting my (overkill) homelab I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was right. The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge. Naturally, that leads to a few questions: What's a home lab? Why do you want one? And what is the shiny...
Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
a year ago
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a year ago
This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Collaboration for PostHog PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your…
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Use class instead of className with Preact and TypeScript ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
Yale E360
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Routing How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
8 months ago
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
Irrational...
Rough notes on learning Wardley Mapping. In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to consider including into a topic that I either do or do not include. The first step on that line is getting much deeper at...
David Heinemeier...
Paranoia and desperation in the AI gold rush I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI....
a year ago
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a year ago
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the...
Eric Bailey
Centerless My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I don’t know what to do about it. Some personal events recently transpired, ones that made me extremely aware of my mortality. They’ve also caused me to reevaluate my self-perception...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Compressing for the browser in Go Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP request to a web server, it includes the following header: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd This tells the server that the response can be compressed using one of the...
Eric Bailey
What they don’t tell you when you translate your app Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most difficult things you can do with software. There’s plenty of content out there about how to perform the basic design and development aspects of translation and localization work....