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Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
over a year ago
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
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Liz Denys
The crispiest chocolate chip cookies Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate...
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Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate shavings cookies didn't satisfy that craving for long - probably because I was craving deep dark chocolate in a rich buttery dough. Normally, I make chewy chocolate chip cookies that...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
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Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
samwho.dev
Memory Allocation .memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top:...
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.memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; } input[type=range]:focus { outline: none; } a[simulation] { cursor: pointer; } .size { color: #0072B2 !important; font-weight: bold; } .free { color: #009E73 !important; font-weight:...
Irrational...
Leadership requires taking some risk. At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles...
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At a recent offsite with Carta’s Navigators, we landed on an interesting topic: leadership roles sometimes mean that making progress on a professional initiative requires taking some personal risk. This lesson was hammered into me a decade ago during my time at Uber, where I...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
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It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
HTMHell
Improving SEO without knowing where to start Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast...
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Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast rules Conclusion Introduction ↑ Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-15 "The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student...
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"The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a...
Yale E360
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
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We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
Yale E360
RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions Wow, my RC batch is one-third done. I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks...
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Wow, my RC batch is one-third done. I've just finished my fourth week, and there are eight weeks left. Time is flying by. I feel like I've settled into a decent groove. Taking a step back, it is setting in how much I've learned so far and how much I've accomplished. In these four...
Charles Chen
Server Sent Events with .NET 7 An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
a year ago
Blog System/5
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Tending Evergreen Notes in Roam Research A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
I don’t want your job
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Figma variables: tips from 3 scenarios Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of...
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Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project. If you want to make a change, you update the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
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I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
Liz Denys
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
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I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
Epic Web Dev
Debug React Router Applications with Custom Logs using react-router-devtools (tip) react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus...
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react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus direct links to code origins in console logs.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs and Naming Things In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard...
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In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard problems in computer science: 1) cache invalidation and 2) naming things. Then he unapologetically says the “naming things” problem is solved with LLMs. Here’s Simon: [When asking...
Irrational...
Extract the kernel. As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication...
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As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive. I...
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
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This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
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Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
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Unsupervised Learning: Clustering Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
AmpliBox - a Self Hosted File Storage App with AWS Amplify A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company Reflecting on selling Smart Bear in 2007, offering insights for entrepreneurs facing similar...
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Lessons Learned Speaking at Conferences Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes...
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Speaking at conferences is equal parts exciting and terrifying. This article is a behind-the-scenes look at what the experience is like, and shares tips for getting started as a conference speaker.
HTMHell
The underrated &lt;dl&gt; element by David Luhr The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
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by David Luhr The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized. It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
samwho.dev
Scale is Poison It's March 9th 2021 and Google Calendar still doesn't have a dark mode. The iOS app update notes for...
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It's March 9th 2021 and Google Calendar still doesn't have a dark mode. The iOS app update notes for the Just Eat app are still boasting about the app now supporting contact-free delivery, and have done for all 25 releases in the last 11 months that I can see on the App Store....
Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
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One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
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Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
Making software...
Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
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Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not. Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn't changed in years....
A Beautiful Site
Lessons from my 20s: a presentation by Ryan Allis Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the...
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Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the world. We all have goals, but sometimes they seem hard to reach. Really hard. Life happens and things get tough, but don't let it get you down. It's not impossible. It just means you'll...
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
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CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Confessions of a...
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM...
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Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM instructions and object memory access patterns.
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
MMapped blog
Rust at scale: packages, crates, and modules
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
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Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on AMP Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP...
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Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat. A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own...
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Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own personal “reading list” of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
over a year ago
Irrational...
Constraints on giving feedback. Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my...
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Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my management chain about issues in our organization. My intentions were good, but I alienated my management chain without accomplishing much. I also shared my concerns with my team, which I...
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
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over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Liz Denys
Adding Open Graph to Pelican I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when...
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I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
Oxide Computer...
A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69 We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
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We’re very excited to have announced the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that can allow for...
Contraption Co.
A mini data center Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini
5 months ago
David Heinemeier...
We tried that, didn’t work In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
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In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible. That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
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Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
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First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
David Crawshaw
2015-01-10 what-if.xkcd.com/124/
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2025 The ware for January 2025 is shown below. Thanks to brimdavis for contributing this ware! …back in...
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The ware for January 2025 is shown below. Thanks to brimdavis for contributing this ware! …back in the day when you would get wares that had “blue wires” in them… One thing I wonder about this ware is…where are the ROMs? Perhaps I’ll find out soon! Happy year of the snake!
MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Genius of Apple's Name An excerpt from Becoming Steve Jobs that made me stop in my tracks.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
I'm going writeonly on Twitter for a while
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
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In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
Maggie Appleton
Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat
over a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
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It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing issue2pr
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Yale E360
I'm moving my projects off GitHub It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating...
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over a year ago
It's time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I'm not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to consider it. I also don't expect this post to... matter, if that makes sense1. I'm not a...
dthompson
Haunt 0.3.0 released Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many...
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Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
MMapped blog
Three degrees of validity
2 months ago
Cognitive...
Built with Dolphin I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a...
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I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a list here of products or projects that use Dolphin. If you would like to be listed here please reach out to me and I'll add...
David Crawshaw
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swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
7 months ago
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
a year ago
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
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9 months ago
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
Yale E360
Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint" If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It...
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If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It seems like every team practices it differently, but there are certain commonalities that run through all teams I've seen. One of those is the term used for each time-delimited...
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Side Street Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket,...
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Joelle Hoverson designed another blanket that follows a similar construction as the Library Blanket, so I figured I'd make another color picking tool for the new Side Street Blanket. The varied blocks in this blanket are also made by holding different pairs of yarns together, so...
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
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a year ago
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
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over a year ago
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
12 months ago
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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9 months ago
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
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over a year ago
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.   If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
the singularity is...
A Way Forward “For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense...
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“For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
So why write a blog? I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
Maggie Appleton
JSX is a Lovechild Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot...
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over a year ago
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me. To me most important thing is: lowest possible friction in adding new notes fast way of...
Computer Things
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
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New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
Josh Comeau's blog
The End of Front-End Development Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a...
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over a year ago
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the...
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (tip)
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
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over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
37signals Dev
Solid Queue 1.0 released We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
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9 months ago
We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
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over a year ago
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
Maggie Appleton
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
On AI doomerism So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed,...
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So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes. "I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you...
David Crawshaw
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
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Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
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For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
The Changelog
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including...
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Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more. See it for the most current information. Sometimes you might want to run Docker...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
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Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin 2018-09-20 I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I'd like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS. Check out the CodePen below...
Making software...
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
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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...
Joel Gascoigne
How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn] just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker [http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
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Making software...
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk's post, How to Create...
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk's post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I'm a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
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an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries I just found a funny failure mode in the garbage collector and thought readers might be...
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I just found a funny failure mode in the garbage collector and thought readers might be amused.Whippet Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked list. Allocation fills the...
Liz Denys
Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit....
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When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit. Viewing permission is straightforward, just view access, but by default, editors have the ability not just to edit the content of the document but also to edit sharing permissions. If...
Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
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Maggie Appleton
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
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Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
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No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Making software...
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
Eric Bailey
Comic Sans is a good typeface, actually body { font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", "ChalkboardSE-Regular", "ChalkboardSE",...
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body { font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", "ChalkboardSE-Regular", "ChalkboardSE", sans-serif; } In my ongoing, inadvertent quest to alienate myself from the design industry, I must now tell you all that Comic Sans is a good typeface. A lot has been written about...
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
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Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
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When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
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A review of the blog in 2023 2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in...
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2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately. It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing. In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023: Targets for 2023 ❎ Publish at least 40 posts 14 ✅ Reach at least 150k...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2022 The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how...
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The ware for November 2022 is a Keithley 2110-240. I’ll give Rodrigo F. the win, but I’m curious how he knew it was the -240 version; I did not expect someone to discern the line voltage rating from the photos! Also, thank you Ian Mason for the lucid explanation of the exposed...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Background Image Opacity in CSS The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background...
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The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background images to an element, e.g. <div> My content with background images. </div> <style> div { background-image: url(image-one.jpg), url(image-two.jpg); ...
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
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この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
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Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
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Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
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My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
Liz Denys
Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024 Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
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The Codist
Learn Something New Every Day You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early...
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You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early 80s, learning new things was a fundamental requirement to being a programmer—almost everything you did was new, both to you and often to everyone else. I started
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
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My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Books I can remember 📚 The best part of reading is forgetting. This is why I struggle with book reviews—it’s hard to...
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📚 The best part of reading is forgetting. This is why I struggle with book reviews—it’s hard to know how valuable a book is until later. But sometimes you find yourself declaiming a book’s key point long after you’ve forgotten most of it. That’s when you know a book is...
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How to Contribute to Open Source Frameworks One of the best ways to level up in programming is to contribute to a high quality open source...
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One of the best ways to level up in programming is to contribute to a high quality open source project, especially a framework.
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
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Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 001: On Embark and Lude Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish...
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Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish granted! In this first dispatch, we want to share some of our recent work on Malleable Software with Embark, talk a bit about our Researchers-in-Residence program, and introduce you to...
Liz Denys
xoxo You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces...
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You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces into moments and memories and bonds to hold onto beyond those polygons, yellow, orange, and red.
Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
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One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
A Smart Bear
The mid-market briar patch Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
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Seldo.com
The case for frameworks
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.14.0 Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
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Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
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In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
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In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster. I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with complexity This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post Dealing with complexity appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
The Pragmatic...
Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they...
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This year, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all suffered comparable regional outages. How did they respond, and why do Azure’s processes stand out compared to its rivals?
Marco.org
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
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over a year ago
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram …Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
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over a year ago
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
Julia Evans
Entering text in the terminal is complicated The other day I asked what folks on Mastodon find confusing about working in the terminal, and one...
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The other day I asked what folks on Mastodon find confusing about working in the terminal, and one thing that stood out to me was “editing a command you already typed in”. This really resonated with me: even though entering some text and editing it is a very “basic” task, it took...
Steve Klabnik
Rails has two default stacks
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Idea for code editors Added a daily notes section to the blog. It’s the one you’re reading right now. Data stored in...
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Added a daily notes section to the blog. It’s the one you’re reading right now. Data stored in \daily_notes.md file. Trying Obsidian for editing markdown files I’m always looking for that perfect note taking / markdown editor. I’m even writing one (but it’s web based so not...
Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
Josh Comeau's blog
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
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Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
The Codist
Puzzled Why Instagram Fails on Safari I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI...
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I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI art, but today on Safari, all I get for every page is: It works on every other browser I have. But why? In the console are two errors, found and placed there
blag
Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
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When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
David Crawshaw
2015-12-27 www.insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com/blog/design-for-slm-topology-optimisation-of-metallic-struc...
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www.insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com/blog/design-for-slm-topology-optimisation-of-metallic-structural-nodes-in-architecture-applications
Darek Kay
Prevent data loss on page refresh It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
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It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience. Browser behavior Most...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
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When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
Irrational...
What can agents actually do? There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can...
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There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these...
Ferd.ca
Counting Forest Fires 2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
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2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
Eric Bailey
Consider the Tomato
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David Crawshaw
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How we do customer support at our open source devtool company Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the...
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Thinner docs, better products The highest priority for support at any company is shortening the feedback loop between your customers and your product…
alexwlchan
Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own...
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Last week Julia Evans posted Writing Javascript without a build system, and it resonated with my own experience. A lot of my websites (including this one) are content sites with just a bit of interactivity sprinkled on top, where I prefer writing vanilla JS over using complex...
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
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Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
A Beautiful Site
Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage...
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Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. Last week, I soft launched Surreal CMS 7. This new version is a complete rebuild from scratch using Node.js + Vue.js. I worked on this new...
David Crawshaw
Under the heel of the spirit "Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the...
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over a year ago
"Everybody thought Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon were spending four-and-a-half percent of the federal budget each year to prove that America owned Science. This was all a fiction. The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the...
Joel Gascoigne
It takes hard work. Do the hard work. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
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This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
37signals Dev
Exploring server-side diffing in Turbo We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails...
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a year ago
We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails World. One of those experiments included diffing in the server instead of in the client. The idea The inspiration for this idea came, again, from Phoenix Live View, a library I find...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
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11 months ago
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2023 The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the...
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a year ago
The Ware for June 2023 is a Sony TR-733 “7-transistor radio” from the mid 1960’s. I’ll give the prize to Pedro Rodrigues, because even though the model number isn’t correct, as far as I can tell the portion of the electronics shown is identical between the TR-729 and the TR-733....
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
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a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Eric Bailey
Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers...
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a year ago
I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent. There is another browser extension called “Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss”. It is made by the highly suspicious Firefox user...
Ognjen Regoje •...
When am I "allowed" to quit and not be labeled a quitter? There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps...
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There’s a type of startup that stays alive but doesn’t achieve meaningful growth. One that keeps raising bridge rounds but whose valuation stagnates. Anecdotally, their founders belong to two groups: They’re still convinced that the business will work and are unflappable in their...
Josh Comeau's blog
The styled-components Happy Path styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've...
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styled-components is a wonderfully powerful styling library for React, and over the years I've learned a lot about how to use it effectively. This article shares my personal “best practices”.
Eric Bailey
Accessibility auditing and ego At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital...
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At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital experience. It takes a snapshot of a website, app, kiosk, or other digital experience and provides a summary of: What isn’t working, How numerous the problems are, How severe the...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
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Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
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For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
Eric Bailey
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
over a year ago
Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people' I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
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I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives: Mr....
alexwlchan
Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough...
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Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished. One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
Founder's blog
No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior" I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3...
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During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I tell — […] The post Product Owner vs Project Managers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are taken into account.
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*This article is a translation of [a Japanese article](https://michi.sociarise.co.jp/recruiting-tips/working-visas/) by Takumi Nakamura, the CEO of [Sociarise](https://sociarise.co.jp), a consultancy for hiring global talents.* When considering hiring foreign nationals, their...
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Although still rare in the industry, companies like Netflix and Shopify let employees choose how much of their total compensation is stock. What are the approaches to take?
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Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated approved. It’s not a stretch to say that a California ski resort has naively combined two M’s to form a crown but to outright copy a symbol used repeatedly by one of the highest selling...
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When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
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The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
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As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary. Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...
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Yesterday we concluded the live session on live coding a bytecode compiler and interpreter (VM) for a tiny subset of Python in Python. Even though I said I will not be sharing the recording, I think the session went quite smooth so I am sharing it here.
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I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party. The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris gets at this in his recent post, “Why aren’t logical...
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Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve found difficult to completely embrace, but which understanding has been super important, is the idea that there is a ratio for everything. I’ve started to call this Ratio Thinking,...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
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I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
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The dream forms over time In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great...
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In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
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Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
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Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
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As silly as it sounds, system design interviews are about systems and design Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and...
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Over the past year or so I’ve done about two dozen systems design interviews (as an interviewer) and have two somewhat subtle observations that would help some candidates. 1. The word system has two meanings The definition most engineers reach for immediately is the one relating...
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Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
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As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
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"Finally we decided to design the processor ourselves, because only in this way, we thought, could we obtain a truly complete display processor. We approached the task by starting with a simple scheme and adding commands and features that we felt would enhance the power of the...
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Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever they're needed. Queues are spontaneously occurring phenomena, just like a waterfall or a thunderstorm.
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The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
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This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
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Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces. The implied web is based on the idea...
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A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
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Learn to test for absent events in React using inverse assertions and waitFor. Avoid false positives in time-dependent tests without using sleep.
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Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now. I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
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I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
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all the ways to css I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
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I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
TokyoDev
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**Recruiters, Consultants, Career Advisors, Headhunters.** I've heard so many names from different people that I've talked to, but all in all, the bulk of the work is the same -- they receive information on what kind of employee a client wants to hire, and start looking for...
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The state of plugins on PostHog Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
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Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
Remains of the Day
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I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
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Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
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Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
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Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”. Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
37signals Dev
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We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
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I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
The Pragmatic...
Uber’s engineering level changes Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time...
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Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time to change, and what were they? I’ve collected details.
Yale E360
Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my...
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Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites. It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier. And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
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What Are Software Developers For At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is...
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At the time of writing this, the perceived potential for AI based tools for software development is at an all time high. Devin, claims to offer a “fully autonomous AI software engineer”. Other tools like Marblism have less ambitious claims but can still create a working web...
Programming in the...
Writing Video Games in a Functional Style When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games...
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When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games be written in a functional style?" These are programs heavily based around mutable state. They evolve, often drastically, during development, so there isn't a perfect up-front...
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Delusional dreams of excess freedom Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
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Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
Alex Meub
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I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket. The command would hang for a really long...
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The waning reach of Twitter I'm really frustrated with Twitter lately... I have developed an unhealthy reliance upon...
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I'm really frustrated with Twitter lately... I have developed an unhealthy reliance upon Twitter When I'm not on it, I'm thinking about it. When my phone is in my hand, my thumbs default to Twitter I've been thinking about this for a while now and yesterday when on the train back...
Alex Meub
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I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
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8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
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General Robots
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020 Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
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A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
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Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
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Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
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Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
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I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself. It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
macwright.com
Takeaway from using CO₂ monitors: run the exhaust fan For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly...
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For the last few years, I’ve had Aranet 4 and AirGradient sensors in my apartment. They’re fairly expensive gadgets that I have no regrets purchasing – I love a little more awareness of things like temperature, humidity, and air quality, it’s ‘grounding’ in a cyberpunk way. But...
Josh Collinsworth
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will...
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The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
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When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
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What is SSO and why you should enable it for PostHog Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used...
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Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday…
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What drives Optimal Overhead? The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
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A Smart Bear
Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. "MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...
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a year ago
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
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a year ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
8 months ago
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog` A snippet I use all the time
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EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
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An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
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Blog of Simple...
Meta loses key privacy battle
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Steve Klabnik
Using the Oxide Console
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Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
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Array 1.30.0 Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation...
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Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation analysis, saving insights for future use and a fully revamped recordings playback experience and more than 350 improvements/fixes more.
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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
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Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
HTMHell
Past HTML, Future HTML? by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML...
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by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1996-01//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p class="Author"> <h1></h1> <P> <P> <H2></H2> <P> <UL> <LI> <LI> ...
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
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over a year ago
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify(). Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
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My 2024 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
8 months ago
David Crawshaw
COPY Relocations "put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y()...
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over a year ago
"put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y() { x(); } $ cc -c symY.c $ readelf -r symY.o Relocation section '.rela.text' at offset 0x518 contains 1 entries: Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name +...
Yale E360
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
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over a year ago
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast? This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
a year ago
TokyoDev
Bringing Your Pets to Japan This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan!...
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a year ago
This is the post in forums that always makes me wince: “I’ve just been hired and am moving to Japan! Can I bring my dog with me?” The reason it causes me pain is that I know the poster is already too late. If they wanted to relocate to Japan with their dog, they needed to start...
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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a year ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
Stephen Wolfram...
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible...
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a year ago
The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s always just one path, defined by evolution from one state to the next. But in a...
Paolo Amoroso's...
DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I'm working on DandeGUI, a Common Lisp GUI library for simple text and graphics output on...
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm working on DandeGUI, a Common Lisp GUI library for simple text and graphics output on Medley Interlisp. The name, pronounced "dandy guy", is a nod to the Dandelion workstation, one of the Xerox D-machines Interlisp-D ran on in the 1980s. DandeGUI allows the creation...
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Curried pumpkin soup Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
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over a year ago
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
Irrational...
High-Context Triad. The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High...
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a year ago
The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High Context Triad.” Those are Layers of context, Navigating ambiguity, and Tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. One of my background projects, probably happening in 2025 or 2026 after I’ve...
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
Making software...
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
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The 9 best GDPR-compliant analytics tools The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use...
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The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use tools like Google Analytics to track and collect user…
MMapped blog
IC internals: the ICP ledger
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The Changelog
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
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over a year ago
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
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over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...