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How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
15th Aug 2022
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How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23

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

15th Aug 2022
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
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It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of...
5th Feb 2023
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It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2023
It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of unit tests. But how does that work in practice? Is Python fast to ship?
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#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
25th Oct 2021
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#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Oct 2021
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development: 🔥 the burger button. 🔥 The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
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GNU Autotools Links https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install configure.ac Writte...
25th May 2016
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GNU Autotools

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

25th May 2016
Links https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install configure.ac Written in m4sh (m4 + shell) Program initialization: AC_INIT macro—needs name, version, maintainer Initialize automake: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE Make sure that C-compiler exists:...
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Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
28th Jul 2024
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Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2024
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Why linting errors should cause tests to fail Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
16th Sep 2016
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Why linting errors should cause tests to fail

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

16th Sep 2016
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
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No More Blue Fridays In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve...
21st Jul 2024
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No More Blue Fridays

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

21st Jul 2024
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been...
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2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
7th Jul 2015
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2015-07-07

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

7th Jul 2015
"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026 A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were...
11th Feb 2026
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026

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

11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
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How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
3rd May 2014
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How we're trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup

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

3rd May 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
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Unshackling Artificial Minds Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product...
23rd Nov 2023
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Unshackling Artificial Minds

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

23rd Nov 2023
Humans, by nature, seem to be drawn to pessimism. It's a tendency rooted deep within us, a product of Entropy, the law of nature that dictates it is easier to destroy than to create. And here we are, on the cusp of creating not just something new, but
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
2nd Feb 2021
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

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

2nd Feb 2021
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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A designer developing for Android
8th Nov 2018
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A designer developing for Android

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

8th Nov 2018
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What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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What I'm up to - November 2023

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

1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
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How to fix Sanity Error: Uncaught error - Could not resolve jsonType of undefined. No parent type... Read the post here.
25th Oct 2023
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How to fix Sanity Error: Uncaught error - Could not resolve jsonType of undefined. No parent type found

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

25th Oct 2023
Read the post here.
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Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
7th Feb 2024
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Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024

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

7th Feb 2024
Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
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Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
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Vicuna

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
13th May 2020
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020

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

13th May 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
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Titles matter Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the...
26th Aug 2025
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Titles matter

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

26th Aug 2025
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?
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Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
20th Nov 2019
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Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django

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

20th Nov 2019
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
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The Last Battle
26th Jul 2023
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The Last Battle

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

26th Jul 2023
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups

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

4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
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About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
10th Apr 2017
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About the Apple Captive Network Assistant

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

10th Apr 2017
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
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WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
31st Dec 2015
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WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough

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

31st Dec 2015
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production" The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"

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

9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
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Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
11th Apr 2021
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Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript

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

11th Apr 2021
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and generally enjoying the...
19th Jan 2016
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Command-Timing-Bash-Prompt

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

19th Jan 2016
A few years ago I was using ZSH with Sindre Sorhus’s Pure prompt and generally enjoying the experience. The big, dumb, obvious caveat of using ZSH is that it’s not Bash. As a result, when you SSH into production machines that only have bash installed, you feel a...
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Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
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Power dynamics in web specifications

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

19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
16th Dec 2025
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks

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

16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
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Strings do too many things No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual...
8th Feb 2024
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Strings do too many things

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

8th Feb 2024
No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual basis types email1 I wrote this about strings: We use strings for identifiers, human writing, structured data, and grammars. If you instead use symbols for identifiers then you can...
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. –...
22nd Apr 2023
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Towards better 1-on-1s: an awkward manifesto

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

22nd Apr 2023
It is unimaginably hard to […] stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. – David Foster Wallace, This is Water At the heart of my management philosophy lies a simple belief: people are working as hard as they can. It’s a lazy assumption to assume people are...
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Enough with the "expert" guilt Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe...
22nd Feb 2010
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Enough with the "expert" guilt

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

22nd Feb 2010
Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe become a "success?" Maybe you don't.
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An early-morning trip to Exeter A very early-morning trip to Exeter, Devon, with my camera.
16th Oct 2014
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An early-morning trip to Exeter

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

16th Oct 2014
A very early-morning trip to Exeter, Devon, with my camera.
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence

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

11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
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Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks. One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief...
12th Apr 2026
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Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.

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

12th Apr 2026
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and...
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The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
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The optics of pair programming

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

17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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Get in Zoomer, We're Saving React Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
22nd Sep 2022
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Get in Zoomer, We're Saving React

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2022
Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are. I find this bizarre for two...
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UNIX Permissions for Dummies (“Dummies”, AKA, future me) I know all this information for some value of the word...
12th Jan 2020
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UNIX Permissions for Dummies

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

12th Jan 2020
(“Dummies”, AKA, future me) I know all this information for some value of the word “know”. Epistemologically speaking, “knowing” in the age of ubiquitous broadband is tantamount to knowing what search term will find the answer you need. In a hypothetical post-apocalyptic dystopia...
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Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
13th Jan 2024
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Making Generative Art

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

13th Jan 2024
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and...
8th Jun 2022
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The "Talk vs Walk" framework

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

8th Jun 2022
This exercise we invented at WP Engine is surprisingly useful in engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.
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The next iteration of Contraption Company From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
6th Sep 2024
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The next iteration of Contraption Company

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

6th Sep 2024
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
9th Dec 2012
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Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support

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

9th Dec 2012
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise.  It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers. After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
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Overcast 5.1 with Instant Search ▶️ The first thing someone does in a podcast app is add some podcasts, and most active Overcast...
28th Jan 2019
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Overcast 5.1 with Instant Search

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

28th Jan 2019
▶️ The first thing someone does in a podcast app is add some podcasts, and most active Overcast users add at least two new podcasts each month. Over 80% of podcasts are added to Overcast by searching, with the vast majority as searches for a specific podcast by name (rather...
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3D Rotation Design
22nd Jun 2017
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3D Rotation Design

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

22nd Jun 2017
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#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
9th Jan 2017
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#define CTO OpenAI

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

9th Jan 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
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Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
2nd Nov 2023
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Embeds and Quotations in Writing

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

2nd Nov 2023
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
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Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating...
7th Mar 2016
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Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children

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

7th Mar 2016
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating webcams on student laptops1. When they were at home. In their bedrooms. They captured photos while students were in private spaces, where they never expected to be watched. A few days...
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Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
5th Dec 2024
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Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails

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

5th Dec 2024
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
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How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
6th Nov 2022
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How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions

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

6th Nov 2022
We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
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Solving the board game Quoridor Algorithmic and optimization playtime
25th May 2026
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Solving the board game Quoridor

from Grant Slatton's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th May 2026
Algorithmic and optimization playtime
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Next.js: Integrating Contentful and TypeScript (App Router) Read the post here.
14th May 2023
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Next.js: Integrating Contentful and TypeScript (App Router)

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

14th May 2023
Read the post here.
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Please put units in names
20th Mar 2022
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Please put units in names

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

20th Mar 2022
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Backgrounds Are Important I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶...
15th Sep 2025
1

Backgrounds Are Important

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2025
I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶ ̸[̶r̷e̶c̶e̴n̷t̵l̷y̷ ̷a̶v̵a̸i̷l̸a̷b̷l̴e̷ ̸o̷n̸ ̵Y̴o̷u̶T̴u̴b̶e̸]̴(̵h̸t̵t̷p̴s̸:̴/̸/̴w̸w̴w̶.̵y̶o̶u̵t̵u̴b̶e̸.̴c̷o̷m̷/̵w̵a̴t̷c̴h̵?̷v̴=̵G̵f̶H̶4̵Q̷L̸4̸V̸q̴J̵0̴)̷,̴ ̴b̴u̵t̷ ̴I̴ ̸c̷o̸u̸l̶d̴n̸’̴t̷ ̷g̷e̷t̵...
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Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
25th Sep 2021
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Network Latencies in the Data Center

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

25th Sep 2021
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024 One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June....
10th Jul 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024

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

10th Jul 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
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TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
3rd Dec 2024
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TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2024
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
5th Nov 2018
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components

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

5th Nov 2018
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
7th Jan 2020
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook

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

7th Jan 2020
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
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When is my Cake Day? Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.
20th Nov 2015
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When is my Cake Day?

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Nov 2015
Using praw and prawoauth2 to find when is my cake day on Reddit.
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Shoelace 2.0 It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
24th Jan 2023
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Shoelace 2.0

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

24th Jan 2023
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project. And that was just the beta version. Today, I'm happy to announce that...
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Gig Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in...
2nd Jun 2020
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Gig

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

2nd Jun 2020
Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in February earlier this year, before the pandemic had really hit in the UK. Feels like a lifetime ago now. I miss it.
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Magical Rainbow Gradients If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible....
13th Jan 2020
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Magical Rainbow Gradients

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

13th Jan 2020
If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients, using CSS Houdini, CSS variables,...
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A letter to John Ternus As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who...
1st Apr 2026
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A letter to John Ternus

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

1st Apr 2026
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers. That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today. Immense scale, soulless...
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
2nd Jul 2025
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Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility

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

2nd Jul 2025
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
5th Aug 2025
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2025
Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

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

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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Setting intentions and goals for 2020 Last year I took a mindfulness course led by a former team lead who had switched careers at...
2nd Jan 2020
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Setting intentions and goals for 2020

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

2nd Jan 2020
Last year I took a mindfulness course led by a former team lead who had switched careers at Microsoft. We had four in-person all day sessions and at the end of each session we would set intentions for the next few months between classes. Intentions are different than goals, as...
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
16th Feb 2024
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2024
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
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Captain's Log #1 In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
11th Nov 2022
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Captain's Log #1

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

11th Nov 2022
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
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The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
9th Nov 2022
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The Age of PageRank is Over

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

9th Nov 2022
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
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The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
11th Jun 2023
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The Surprising Power of Documentation

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

11th Jun 2023
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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React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)
22nd Apr 2025
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React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)

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

22nd Apr 2025
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What I'm up to - October 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
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What I'm up to - October 2022

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

1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
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Ray tracing with M-reps
11th Feb 2022
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Ray tracing with M-reps

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

11th Feb 2022
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Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
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Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
4th Jul 2023
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Building personal and organizational prestige

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

4th Jul 2023
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
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Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload

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

1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉). That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two Which is very similar...
8th Dec 2025
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2025
You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two Which is very similar to my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and coffee cups. hand carved wooden spoon It’s hard to find a finish...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again

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

5th Jul 2019
Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
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A language for designing slides
27th Apr 2017
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A language for designing slides

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

27th Apr 2017
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5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s a long time...
1st Apr 2013
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5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without

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

1st Apr 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s a long time ago now, however I still remember it very well. When I first went about creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product] for Buffer,...
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The Yoto Mini is Perfect The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
24th May 2024
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The Yoto Mini is Perfect

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

24th May 2024
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package. I have no affiliation with Yoto, I’m just a happy customer with kids who love it. If you aren’t aware, Yoto...
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Be Kind in Code Review We have a “book” club at work. I say “book” because it’s more of a media club – we discuss books,...
10th Dec 2019
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Be Kind in Code Review

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

10th Dec 2019
We have a “book” club at work. I say “book” because it’s more of a media club – we discuss books, articles, videos – anything that’s topic is related to engineering productivity. We recently read Google’s Engineering Practices doc How to do a code review. The guiding principles...
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Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
12th Jun 2024
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Disqus - An Apology

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

12th Jun 2024
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
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#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser...
9th Feb 2020
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#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2020
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine"> <div> <img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg"> </div> </div> </a> Issues and...
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Building Elm with Stack
21st Sep 2017
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Building Elm with Stack

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

21st Sep 2017
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Making sense of TypeScript using set theory I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
23rd Jan 2023
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Making sense of TypeScript using set theory

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

23rd Jan 2023
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me: Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false? I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
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Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
20th Feb 2024
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Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills

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

20th Feb 2024
In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
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Approximating strace with Instruments.app
9th Oct 2024
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Approximating strace with Instruments.app

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
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Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
20th Apr 2022
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Benefits as a Reflection of Values

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

20th Apr 2022
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
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[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
12th Feb 2021
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[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations

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

12th Feb 2021
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
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Systems Software in the Large Software is hard (yes, even in an era of vibe coding), and systems software — the silent engine room...
18th Sep 2025
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Systems Software in the Large

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

18th Sep 2025
Software is hard (yes, even in an era of vibe coding), and systems software — the silent engine room of modern infrastructure — is especially so. By design, systems software provides an abstraction for programs, insulating programmers from the filthy details that lie beneath;...
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

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

2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
3rd Mar 2019
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The Federation Fallacy

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

3rd Mar 2019
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
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Breaking Barbarian This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160),...
7th Aug 2022
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Breaking Barbarian

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

7th Aug 2022
This week in a [Svelte Radio recording](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1555596996744028160), @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" [^1]. I responded that I've been calling this...
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My productivity rules A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do...
8th Oct 2025
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My productivity rules

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

8th Oct 2025
A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do is write a post about it. That way, it might help more people too. So here we go. Before we start, there are two things you need before any productivity advice will work: Be...
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
18th Nov 2022
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

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

18th Nov 2022
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
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Toasts are Bad UX Read the post here.
17th Jul 2024
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Toasts are Bad UX

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

17th Jul 2024
Read the post here.
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Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
17th Oct 2024
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Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates

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

17th Oct 2024
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
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Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
5th May 2012
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Hotel Guest User Agent Data

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

5th May 2012
I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
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Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum I have written a lot about the pendulum swing between engineering and management, so I often hear...
24th Mar 2022
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Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum

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

24th Mar 2022
I have written a lot about the pendulum swing between engineering and management, so I often hear from people who are angsting about the transition. A quick recap of the relevant posts: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Engineering Management: the Pendulum or the Ladder If Management...
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July 2022
1st Jul 2022
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July 2022

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

1st Jul 2022
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Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
2nd Aug 2021
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Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js

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

2nd Aug 2021
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
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Fibonacci Goals

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

1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc....
a week ago
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there...
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Quadratic Error Functions Explainer
17th Nov 2018
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Quadratic Error Functions Explainer

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

17th Nov 2018
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Go fix your bugs An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
4th May 2023
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Go fix your bugs

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

4th May 2023
An exploration of some bugs you might not have known that you had
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Transaction models are programming paradigms
16th Aug 2024
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Transaction models are programming paradigms

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

16th Aug 2024
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Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
10th Oct 2022
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Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform

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

10th Oct 2022
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
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Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
24th Sep 2019
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Welcome, Prashanth!

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2019
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
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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 subscribed on email!), I started a separate AI...
30th Dec 2022
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone

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

30th Dec 2022
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were subscribed on email!), I started a separate AI blog, L-space Diaries, this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2) create a focused feed on a topic rather than a person (I also started DX Tips for devtools/devrel writing,...
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Is Computer Science Really that Hard? Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
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Is Computer Science Really that Hard?

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

5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
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Dashboard and Archives downtime Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
1st Sep 2026
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Dashboard and Archives downtime

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

1st Sep 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
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kokopelli
1st May 2013
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kokopelli

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

1st May 2013
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Alt-Numpad for Linux In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am...
26th Jul 2011
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Alt-Numpad for Linux

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

26th Jul 2011
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a major stumbling block for me since I am annoyingly picky about typography. After spending way too much time Googling I found that these steps work: Hold Ctrl+Shift+U Release the “U” key (while still holding...
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend...
18th Aug 2025
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation

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

18th Aug 2025
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around. While I've enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy binge I started during this pregnancy, it feels like a work week ritual -- something to put on in the background or pay half...
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Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
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Naked Emperors in Tech

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

6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
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Flat in-order binary trees
13th Aug 2023
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Flat in-order binary trees

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

13th Aug 2023
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
2nd Aug 2023
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack

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

2nd Aug 2023
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
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The path to 1M ARR - April 2023
2nd May 2023
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The path to 1M ARR - April 2023

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

2nd May 2023
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C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make...
6th Jul 2024
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C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels

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

6th Jul 2024
For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make it easy.
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

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

6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
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Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
12th Mar 2024
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Implicit Assertions (article)

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

12th Mar 2024
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
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Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
2nd Oct 2023
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Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide

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

2nd Oct 2023
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
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How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
8th Nov 2024
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How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half

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

8th Nov 2024
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
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You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an...
12th Jul 2026
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You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail

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

12th Jul 2026
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from? Letting an agent rip on full auto is basically doom scrolling. Even worse if you're doom scrolling while the agent runs. We humans love frying our dopamine receptors. This feels great until...
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Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
3rd Jan 2024
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Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by

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

3rd Jan 2024
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
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The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
4th Oct 2023
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The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared

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

4th Oct 2023
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
22nd Sep 2023
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Sep 2023
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
8th Apr 2024
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A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner

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

8th Apr 2024
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
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Dynamic Bézier Curves A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as...
23rd May 2018
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Dynamic Bézier Curves

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

23rd May 2018
A deep dive into Bézier curves in React. We'll look at how to build dynamic effects such as scroll-to-flatten using SVG path instructions, and how to architect our components for maximum readability and reusability.
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher

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

4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
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In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
14th Sep 2023
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In a git repository, where do your files live?

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

14th Sep 2023
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023 We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over...
3rd May 2023
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023

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

3rd May 2023
We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform! I hope your learnings are going well, and that everything we’re building is helping you, even if it’s in a small way.
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What I'm up to - August 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2025
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What I'm up to - August 2025

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

1st Aug 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Back to eating solid foods after my jaw surgery. - Playing with gpt-oss on my com...
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
8th Mar 2024
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency

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

8th Mar 2024
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
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Send automations based on email addresses Send automations based on email addresses
1st Nov 2023
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Send automations based on email addresses

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

1st Nov 2023
Send automations based on email addresses
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“’S Wonderful” by George Gershwin Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano
13th Nov 2025
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“’S Wonderful” by George Gershwin

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

13th Nov 2025
Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano
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Working on a virtualenv without magic
2nd Oct 2016
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Working on a virtualenv without magic

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

2nd Oct 2016
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Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
24th Aug 2023
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Getting our focus back

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

24th Aug 2023
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
24th Feb 2015
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry

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

24th Feb 2015
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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Quietly quantum-resistant blogging Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable...
9th Apr 2026
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Quietly quantum-resistant blogging

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2026
Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable of breaking classical public-key cryptography algorithms are much closer than previously believed. What was thought to be years away might now be months. I found Filippo Valsorda’s...
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable...
28th Jun 2025
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine

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

28th Jun 2025
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable housing, and sometimes people ask me how they can do the same and what to expect. I decided to make a mini-zine that tries to demystify speaking up at public meetings: All text in the...
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Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours... On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
9th May 2022
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Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours to capitalize on the news.

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

9th May 2022
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
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Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
9th Feb 2026
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Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents

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

9th Feb 2026
Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
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What the hell is a Webmention? If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
1st Aug 2025
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What the hell is a Webmention?

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

1st Aug 2025
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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How I Keep Up With Concerts
11th Nov 2019
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How I Keep Up With Concerts

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

11th Nov 2019
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Partial order and non-Boolean logic Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
26th Dec 2020
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Partial order and non-Boolean logic

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

26th Dec 2020
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
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How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
19th Oct 2020
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How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies

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

19th Oct 2020
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
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Apollo Vampire V1200 Review After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
21st Jul 2020
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Apollo Vampire V1200 Review

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

21st Jul 2020
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
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Tools ≠ skills A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software...
4th Aug 2025
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Tools ≠ skills

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

4th Aug 2025
A couple of years ago at Jenni we spent time breaking down retention strategies of software products. One pattern we found is where ability to use a tool becomes a synonym for the skill it supports (e.g. Photoshop/ Illustrator). The term we coined internally was ‘product as a...
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Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?
8th Mar 2026
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Do AI-enabled companies need fewer people?

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

8th Mar 2026
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A Useful Bash Function for Debugging Flaky Tests Read the post here.
24th Nov 2025
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A Useful Bash Function for Debugging Flaky Tests

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

24th Nov 2025
Read the post here.
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The numeric tower fiasco
22nd Nov 2023
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The numeric tower fiasco

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

22nd Nov 2023
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pre-tenuring in v8 Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code that touched : allocating...
5th Jan 2026
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pre-tenuring in v8

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2026
Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code that touched : allocating objects directly in the old space instead of the nursery. I knew the theory here but I had never looked into the mechanism. Today’s post is a quick overview of how...
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Gradients are the new intervals
14th May 2025
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Gradients are the new intervals

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

14th May 2025
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How PyTorch Generates Random Numbers in Parallel on the GPU A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
18th Dec 2025
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How PyTorch Generates Random Numbers in Parallel on the GPU

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

18th Dec 2025
A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
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Redesigning the Cakedesk Website Read the post here.
30th Dec 2025
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Redesigning the Cakedesk Website

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

30th Dec 2025
Read the post here.
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Sketches I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces...
31st Jan 2026
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Sketches

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

31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face. Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024 ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024

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

5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
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Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
4th Aug 2024
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Double your productivity without more work or stress

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

4th Aug 2024
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
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Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
5th Apr 2022
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Crypto Twitter

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

5th Apr 2022
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
2nd Jul 2025
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit

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

2nd Jul 2025
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
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Servers can last a long time We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
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Servers can last a long time

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

7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
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How autonomous vehicle simulation works When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
7th Jun 2024
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How autonomous vehicle simulation works

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

7th Jun 2024
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2024 Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much...
3rd Apr 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2024

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

3rd Apr 2024
Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much rejoicing. Happy coding.
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
14th Mar 2025
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?

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

14th Mar 2025
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
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Typing instance variables in mixins
14th Apr 2025
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Typing instance variables in mixins

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2025
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Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
7th Dec 2021
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Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode

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

7th Dec 2021
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
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Alchemy Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways,...
9th Nov 2025
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Alchemy

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

9th Nov 2025
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
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Hello world... 8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However,...
8th Jul 2019
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Hello world...

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

8th Jul 2019
8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However, all that blogging over the years has been focused on fashion, lifestyle and travel over on another URL and lately, I've been wanting to dig into more design and front-end focused...
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Exercise: a requirement for sleep? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have...
21st Nov 2010
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Exercise: a requirement for sleep?

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

21st Nov 2010
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8 and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it is vital that I wake up refreshed
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My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

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

3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
6th Jun 2021
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

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

6th Jun 2021
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
16th Jan 2023
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea

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

16th Jan 2023
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have...
30th Jul 2024
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The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media

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

30th Jul 2024
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.
1st Feb 2021
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

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

1st Feb 2021
Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.
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What I'm up to - July 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
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What I'm up to - July 2022

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

1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate...
12th Sep 2025
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

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

12th Sep 2025
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate to mlx
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The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
15th Aug 2022
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The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR

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

15th Aug 2022
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
9th Jan 2023
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee

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

9th Jan 2023
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
2nd Oct 2018
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?

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

2nd Oct 2018
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Notes on switching to Helix from vim Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I...
10th Oct 2025
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Notes on switching to Helix from vim

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

10th Oct 2025
Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor, and so I decided to give it a try. I’ve been using it for 3 months now and...
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet “OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios,...
2nd Sep 2022
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Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

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

2nd Sep 2022
“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of… USB drives?” Well, yes. In fact, I’ve already done it. What is sneakernet? Normally, “sneakernet” is a sort of...
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[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
11th Jan 2020
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[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates

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

11th Jan 2020
Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
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Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
9th Nov 2025
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Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto

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

9th Nov 2025
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

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

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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Python Versions Management With pyenv Using the latest version of Python is always a good idea. First of all - you get the new features...
3rd Feb 2021
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Python Versions Management With pyenv

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

3rd Feb 2021
Using the latest version of Python is always a good idea. First of all - you get the new features like the f-strings (Python 3.6), ordered dictionaries (officially guaranteed from Python 3.7, but already present in Python 3.6), or the union operator (Python 3.9). But even if you...
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4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
9th May 2024
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4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job

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

9th May 2024
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What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
18th May 2023
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What are passkeys?

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

18th May 2023
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
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We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!

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

6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
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Representation Matters
15th Dec 2020
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Representation Matters

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

15th Dec 2020
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A reality check about cloud native DevOps Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and author of ‘Cloud Native...
3rd Feb 2020
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A reality check about cloud native DevOps

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

3rd Feb 2020
Wojtek Cichoń from Semaphore speaks with John Arundel, consultant and author of ‘Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes’, about how adopting DevOps destroys walls, builds bridges, and influences company cultures for the better. “Sometimes all it takes to put the light back in...
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Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child' I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add...
1st Dec 2024
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Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child'

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

1st Dec 2024
I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add some padding between them, as one does, and was preparing to apply padding to the left of each icon so the final icon on the right remained aligned right. On smaller screens, when...
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
1st Feb 2019
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines

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

1st Feb 2019
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
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You're underusing Underscore Ten common mistakes people make when using Underscore, and a linting tool to detect them.
18th Feb 2016
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You're underusing Underscore

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

18th Feb 2016
Ten common mistakes people make when using Underscore, and a linting tool to detect them.
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026 We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons...
13th Jan 2026
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026

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

13th Jan 2026
We’re off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons completed and 82,578 training grounds challenges completed during the month! In January, I’m writing this on the 13th, and we’re already at 1,657,581 lessons and 47,795 challenges...
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