Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
Top Categories > programming
#all #programming #technology #startups #history #life #science #literature #architecture #creative #design #finance #travel #comics #AI #indiehacker #cartography Muted Categories [alt+←][alt+→]
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
a year ago
22
a year ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
Grant Slatton
Writing a good design document A guide
5 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Meta’s historic growth challenge The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
over a year ago
47
over a year ago
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
Contraption Co.
Internal tools of Find AI Technical presentation at an AI meetup
9 months ago
37signals Dev
A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer...
a year ago
19
a year ago
Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer smoother page updates and a simplified broadcasting system. This is the article version of the presentation I delivered. The starting point The traditional server-side full-page...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
over a year ago
41
over a year ago
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page: "Which technology is worth learning in 2020?" And the most "upvoted" answer was: Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL Well,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Files Please Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them...
a year ago
38
a year ago
Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A range of apps can edit a single file in a single...
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024 This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
6 months ago
73
6 months ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract: Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
Yale e360
RC Week 1: Getting Unexpected Extrovert Energy The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm...
over a year ago
20
over a year ago
The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm planning to write a blog post each week about my experience at RC. They'll vary, but it'll probably be a mixture of what I did and my feelings about everything. There won't be too...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
over a year ago
47
over a year ago
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
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
TokyoDev
The Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination: My Experience Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country....
11 months ago
28
11 months ago
Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country. I started studying the Japanese language and began to wonder what it would take for me to move there and work as a software developer. While still at university, I had an...
Joel Gascoigne
Thinking about your goal with a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often reflect...
over a year ago
32
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often reflect upon the differences between my previous startup and Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and think about what changes to my mindset affected the better outcome this time compared with...
Remains of the Day
Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
over a year ago
44
over a year ago
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
11 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
over a year ago
19
over a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
37signals Dev
The gift of constraints One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
9 months ago
19
9 months ago
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite. I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
Confessions of a...
CPython Internals: What Happens Before Bytecode Execution Starts Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading...
10 months ago
MMapped blog
Static types are for perfectionists
3 months ago
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
over a year ago
39
over a year ago
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014). At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding...
5 months ago
80
5 months ago
At the core of Uber’s service migration strategy (2014) is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a system model representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number of...
Steve Klabnik
DayZ
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential tips for Customer Success teams on PostHog While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
While PostHog is obviously useful for product managers, engineers and analysts, there’s a lot it can do for other teams too — including customer…
37signals Dev
A vanilla Rails stack is plenty If you have the luxury of starting a new Rails app today, here’s our recommendation: go...
6 months ago
53
6 months ago
If you have the luxury of starting a new Rails app today, here’s our recommendation: go vanilla. Fight hard before adding Ruby dependencies. Keep that Gemfile that Rails generates as close to the original one as possible. Fight even harder before adding Javascript dependencies....
macwright.com
Recently Busy month! In January, I wrote about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of features...
a year ago
27
a year ago
Busy month! In January, I wrote about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of features in Val Town. I also hacked around enough to make Placemark Play available again, the “free-as-in-beer” Placemark UI. It still has some warts, but it’s there. Want to improve...
Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time....
5 months ago
66
5 months ago
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Machine Learning: An Overview The three major branches of ML
over a year ago
Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
a year ago
35
a year ago
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
over a year ago
21
over a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
over a year ago
33
over a year ago
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
a year ago
52
a year ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
over a year ago
37
over a year ago
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
over a year ago
33
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
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...
a year ago
18
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...
macwright.com
Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
a year ago
102
a year ago
If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
over a year ago
Charles Chen
Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
a year ago
86
a year ago
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
Seldo.com
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
5 months ago
Sometimes It Works...
The waning reach of Twitter I'm really frustrated with Twitter lately... I have developed an unhealthy reliance upon...
a year ago
9
a year ago
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...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
a year ago
59
a year ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Connect Local with CodeKit Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with...
over a year ago
27
over a year ago
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
a year ago
51
a year ago
note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
David Heinemeier...
HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone! Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the...
a month ago
16
a month ago
Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the defining moments of my career. It was the kind of test that calls you to account for what you believe and asks what you're willing to risk to see it through. Well, we risked...
Yale e360
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
over a year ago
23
over a year ago
Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
The Changelog
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
over a year ago
19
over a year ago
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
The History of the...
Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
a year ago
26
a year ago
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
TokyoDev
Entry Level Jobs in Japan *Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in...
over a year ago
37
over a year ago
*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
Marco.org
In-App Purchase Rules A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s...
over a year ago
32
over a year ago
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app. Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
MMapped blog
Three degrees of validity
2 months ago
Liz Denys
Black coiled bowl, 2023 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, glossy blue glaze
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Little Swarming Gnats of Data Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer...
a week ago
10
a week ago
Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of emails I get when I fly, e.g.: Check in now Track your bags Your flight will soon depart Your flight will soon...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
a year ago
David Crawshaw
2014-12-11 shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
over a year ago
Quentin Santos
Linux always toggles DTR & RTS In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically...
2 months ago
12
2 months ago
In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically resetting the board when the UART pin DTR (or RTS) transitions from electrically high to low. This exploits the fact that this transition happens automatically when someone or...
David Crawshaw
2015-07-17 books.google.com/googlebooks/error.html
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s...
a year ago
57
a year ago
I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and...
James Vaughan's blog
Tote bag
11 months ago
Seldo.com
Becoming American
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
over a year ago
The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
19
over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Mix Blend Modes (tip) Learn how to create a stunning text over image effect using mix blend modes.
a year ago
macwright.com
On Web Components God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read...
a year ago
36
a year ago
God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read it Carlana Johnson’s “Alternate Futures for Web Components” had me nodding all the way. There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a...
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...
7 months ago
64
7 months ago
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.
Eric Bailey
Forbidden noodles My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware...
over a year ago
18
over a year ago
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of: Bucatini The FDA banning the import of this beloved pasta was one of the many tragedies 2020 visited on us. If there is any consolation, know that the De Cecco pasta factories have...
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
a year ago
21
a year ago
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
Grant Slatton
Culture is a set of social Schelling points Solving coordination problems in community-building
8 months ago
alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
a year ago
51
a year ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many...
over a year ago
8
over a year ago
What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time. For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
over a year ago
33
over a year ago
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
The History of the...
1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was...
2 months ago
32
2 months ago
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
the singularity is...
Three Class Society I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
a year ago
49
a year ago
I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.” I heard something similar once from a...
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
a year ago
65
a year ago
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
A Beautiful Site
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
over a year ago
41
over a year ago
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently. After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
Eric Bailey
Maralinga bomb test On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing...
over a year ago
15
over a year ago
On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing program was codenamed One Tree, and utilized a payload comparable to the horrific Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The test was part of Operation...
Jake Zimmerman
Bug squash: An underrated interview question
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Some people understand REST and HTTP
over a year ago
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
10 months ago
22
10 months ago
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
23
a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
a year ago
89
a year ago
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years. Time flies when you’re organising information! I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come. Its approach...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Betwixt Reason and Result I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
over a year ago
26
over a year ago
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
Quentin Santos
Arduino’s Automatic Reset As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
2 months ago
13
2 months ago
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
bt RSS Feed
Faking 3D Elements with CSS Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that...
over a year ago
21
over a year ago
Faking 3D Elements with CSS 2020-04-29 Although not always practical, creating the illusion that some of your web elements are 3D can be a fun experiment. I set out to see if I was able to create such an illusion with only 2 HTML elements and as little CSS as possible. This is...
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024 I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
6 months ago
76
6 months ago
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
Computer Things
What hard thing does your tech make easy? I occasionally receive emails asking me to look at the writer's new language/library/tool. Sometimes...
5 months ago
48
5 months ago
I occasionally receive emails asking me to look at the writer's new language/library/tool. Sometimes it's in an area I know well, like formal methods. Other times, I'm a complete stranger to the field. Regardless, I'm generally happy to check it out. When starting out, this is...
Epic Web Dev
Use Isolation to Solve Complex Problems (tip) When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary...
over a year ago
20
over a year ago
When faced with a complex problem, try isolating it by creating a minimal example in a temporary project directory.
alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
a year ago
63
a year ago
I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18 React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
Ognjen Regoje •...
The value of "Yes, and..." I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use...
2 months ago
12
2 months ago
I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use more frequently. I particularly took the “Yes, and…“ to heart. It is an excellent technique, or attitude really, that keeps the conversation going. Conversations often start slow but...
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book 5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
over a year ago
Blog System/5
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
11 months ago
89
11 months ago
Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
Stephen Wolfram...
Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Creating Some Noise on Behalf of Silence How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use...
11 months ago
52
11 months ago
How do you write about the value of silence? It’s kind of absurd when you think about it. Do you use words to extol the value of something whose essence is the very absence of words? It’s like making a painting of the invisible. Do you use visible means to depict something that...
Acko.net
Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
7
over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thinking Big and Small It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about...
a year ago
63
a year ago
It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then...
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
over a year ago
32
over a year ago
It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
swyx's site RSS Feed
September 11th from Singapore just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
a year ago
94
a year ago
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
a year ago
22
a year ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
Contraption Co.
Wine craft 2024 harvest season in Alsace
9 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
over a year ago
77
over a year ago
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Startups, stop treating engineers like a different species Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs –...
over a year ago
25
over a year ago
Today I’d like to rant talk about how non-engineering people at startups – especially execs – treat engineers like a fundamentally different type of…
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
over a year ago
27
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
a year ago
22
a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
A Smart Bear
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups...
4 months ago
39
4 months ago
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
over a year ago
41
over a year ago
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
Epic Web Dev
Use Fetcher Keys for Registering Remix Fetchers (tip) Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve...
a year ago
23
a year ago
Discover how to use fetcher keys in Remix 2.2.0 for optimistic theme switching with cookies. Improve user experience and eliminate network delays.
Liz Denys
A very MIT signals problem I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there....
over a year ago
27
over a year ago
I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there. Signals and systems can be used to describe many different problems because it is simply an abstraction which describes a physical, mathematical, or computational system by the way...
TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023 Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
a year ago
51
a year ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
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
Josh Collinsworth
New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
a year ago
29
a year ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
Yale e360
Procrastinating on my side project by torturing databases One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just...
a year ago
21
a year ago
One of my most insidious procrastination mechanisms is doing things that feel like work but are just a fun diversion. I ran into that recently for a side project I'm working on. It wasn't really necessary to test database options semi-rigorously, but here we are. This project is...
Remains of the Day
Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
over a year ago
36
over a year ago
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
bt RSS Feed
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
over a year ago
20
over a year ago
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
David Heinemeier...
Age is a problem at Apple The average age of Apple's board members is 68! Nearly half are over 70, and the youngest is 63....
3 months ago
27
3 months ago
The average age of Apple's board members is 68! Nearly half are over 70, and the youngest is 63. It’s not much better with the executive team, where the average age hovers around 60. I’m all for the wisdom of our elders, but it’s ridiculous that the world’s premier tech company...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
SemVer: The Tricky Parts Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
over a year ago
21
over a year ago
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be: Should you...
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
3 months ago
34
3 months ago
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Eric Bailey
The Radium Craze Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need...
over a year ago
18
over a year ago
Radium was discovered in 1898 by Polish chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie. To produce radium, you need to extract it from pitchblende, an ore that contains uranium. Radium was discovered in working with the known properties of pitchblende. Curie noticed that pitchblende in its...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I build things My process for starting new projects
7 months ago
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
over a year ago
26
over a year ago
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […] The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The essential tools used by product engineers Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
over a year ago
25
over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
HTMHell
Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where...
6 months ago
71
6 months ago
by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user’s native one. This situation is common for users navigating government portals or local service providers in a country...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
@levelsio and survivorship bias Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit. Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
over a year ago
35
over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Does unsafe undermine Rust's guarantees?
3 months ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 007: Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
8 months ago
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
6 months ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language...
over a year ago
36
over a year ago
It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language outperforming C and C++ solutions. Originally published in mid 2018, now completetly rewritten.
A Smart Bear
Pick one and own it What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will...
a year ago
43
a year ago
What if your company could have only one single advantage over the competition? This exercise will make your positioning and strategy stronger.
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
over a year ago
27
over a year ago
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022 I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
over a year ago
38
over a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records. I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that. Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2024 recap Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events...
8 months ago
64
8 months ago
Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events of last week: BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup. There is A LOT to cover, but everything is here in just one article!
Eric Bailey
#WorstWorkWednesday This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a...
over a year ago
15
over a year ago
This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a conversation how people don’t share negative things on social media, especially in the context of a professional account. #WorstWorkWednesday, the title of this post, is a hashtag coined...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
over a year ago
29
over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
Josh Comeau's blog
Announcing “use-sound”, a React Hook for Sound Effects By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps,...
over a year ago
53
over a year ago
By and large, using the web is a visual experience. This is in terrible contrast to mobile apps, which interact with three of our human senses (sight, sound, and touch, through haptic feedback). I just released a library to make it easy to add sound to your React app, and I make...
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
over a year ago
28
over a year ago
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2023 The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware!...
a year ago
39
a year ago
The Ware for December 2023 is shown below. Thanks to Cedric Honnet for contributing this ware! Unfortunately this image does have an exact hit on Google images, as it is already in Cedric’s social media feed — but I think the ware itself is functionally interesting, yet simple...
A Smart Bear
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like...
5 months ago
63
5 months ago
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
over a year ago
148
over a year ago
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
James Vaughan's blog
james.land, a place for me to share my scrappy fiddles
8 months ago
The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
23
a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
Blog of Simple...
Data retention in Google Analytics
a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust and Go vs everything else Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages...
7 months ago
103
7 months ago
Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
Code Of Honor
Twenty Years of Guild Wars So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
2 months ago
9
2 months ago
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
47
a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
A Beautiful Site
Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but...
over a year ago
31
over a year ago
I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. The weird thing is that it wasn't showing up as a broken link (no missing image icon with the infamous red 'X'). Instead, it wasn't showing up at...
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...
over a year ago
19
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
a year ago
32
a year ago
Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
over a year ago
33
over a year ago
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
over a year ago
43
over a year ago
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
bt RSS Feed
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
over a year ago
19
over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
Making software...
Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
28
over a year ago
Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
19
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. Notable improvements and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand...
a year ago
54
a year ago
Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you...
Eric Bailey
I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
over a year ago
16
over a year ago
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
bt RSS Feed
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
11 months ago
33
11 months ago
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
over a year ago
23
over a year ago
CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3 In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
over a year ago
25
over a year ago
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
The Changelog
Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
Steve Klabnik
More rstat.us refactoring
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Easy Custom Radio Inputs Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
over a year ago
23
over a year ago
Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are something designers tend to over-think when trying to customize them. Let’s walk through how to create custom radio buttons with pure CSS, while still preserving performance and...
samwho.dev
Getting an Autism Diagnosis On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism...
over a year ago
43
over a year ago
On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much detail as I can. This post would not have...
Irrational...
Diagnosis in engineering strategy. Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its...
4 months ago
40
4 months ago
Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how...
Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Machine Learning at Google ---
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Why learn about the golden-section search An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
4 days ago
8
4 days ago
An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
blag
PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
7 months ago
Dan Cowell
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet. I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline...
a year ago
34
a year ago
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast,
Vadim Kravcenko
Mental Health in Software Engineering Question: Answer: The post Mental Health in Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings “When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
over a year ago
42
over a year ago
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
Liz Denys
Hearts, stars, and trumpets: the things I 'favorite' but don't 'like' Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes". We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding...
over a year ago
31
over a year ago
Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes". We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite. It's true - not...
HTMHell
Misleading Icons: Icon-Only-Buttons and Their Impact on Screen Readers by Alexander Muzenhardt Introduction Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a...
6 months ago
63
6 months ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt Introduction Imagine you’re tasked with building a cool new feature for a product. You dive into the work with full energy, and just before the deadline, you manage to finish it. Everyone loves your work, and the feature is set to go live the next...
bt RSS Feed
My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Rules of Margin Collapse “Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets...
over a year ago
35
over a year ago
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Advice on Blogging In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog...
a year ago
77
a year ago
In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently? I gave my answer, but I wanted to expand on it. These kinds of questions are interesting to me. As readers, I think the answer we’re...
Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
over a year ago
16
over a year ago
For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask: Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)? Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
David Gerrells
how to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my...
11 months ago
James Vaughan's blog
How I Take Notes With Vim, Markdown, and Pandoc
over a year ago
Identity Designed
BERA Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Improving the User Experience of IoT Firmware Updates
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #16 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
29
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Alex Meub
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
over a year ago
39
over a year ago
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
Epic Web Dev
Preparing for a workshop with Kent C. Dodds (tip) Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step...
a year ago
20
a year ago
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step instructions, resources, and hands-on exercises to level up.
Contraption Co.
Craft in the digital era The next iteration of Contraption Company
5 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is user segmentation? User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
over a year ago
25
over a year ago
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
Steve Klabnik
The Hackety Manifesto
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
over a year ago
29
over a year ago
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
Ink & Switch
Thinking with ink, spreadsheets for exploring scenarios, and a local-first key agreement protocol A project from our programmable ink track, a spreadsheet for exploring scenarios, and a new...
4 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await) JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
Epic Web Dev
Writing Tests That Fail (article) There can be a lot of confusion and doubt when it comes to writing tests. Answering this simple...
8 months ago
69
8 months ago
There can be a lot of confusion and doubt when it comes to writing tests. Answering this simple question may help clear a lot of it out.
David Heinemeier...
Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
10 months ago
50
10 months ago
History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
Joel Gascoigne
Giving your startup a point of view * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
over a year ago
23
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post [https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup] is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
bt RSS Feed
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
over a year ago
23
over a year ago
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of insert design industry here and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I...
a year ago
27
a year ago
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way. story time Two years ago I planned to make a typical acrylic sandwich case for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
2 months ago
32
2 months ago
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
a year ago
6
a year ago
An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
alexwlchan
Using templates in Terraform to document a deployment I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the...
over a year ago
40
over a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the deployments it’s creating. In particular, I’ve started using Terraform to create README files which describe the exact infrastructure it’s just created. Here’s my latest example: a README...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the...
3 months ago
40
3 months ago
Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns white...
The Changelog
Memoirs of the Early Internet The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow...
2 months ago
13
2 months ago
The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow lingered online for decades longer than you might expect. Today I’ll take you on a tour of some parts of the early Internet. The Internet, of course, is a “network of networks” and...
macwright.com
Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
10 months ago
64
10 months ago
Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
over a year ago
34
over a year ago
In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging A simple way to decide when and what to write.
over a year ago
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
129
a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
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...
over a year ago
32
over a year ago
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...
Ferd.ca
The Review Is the Action Item 2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
a year ago
103
a year ago
2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
Blog System/5
Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
4 months ago
34
4 months ago
An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Getting an Unread Badge Count For the Docked Gmail Web App in macOS If you didn’t know already, you can now turn webpages into “apps” on your Mac. I’ve done this for a...
a year ago
29
a year ago
If you didn’t know already, you can now turn webpages into “apps” on your Mac. I’ve done this for a few apps already and it works great. I get system-level notifications, unread badge counts, and more! Except for Gmail. With Gmail I get notifications but I don’t get application...
HTMHell
#29 Randomly grouping content Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> ...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> <img src="logo.svg" alt="Logo"> </a> </header> <main> <a href="/services">Services</a> <a href="/products">Products</a> ...
Evan Jones -...
Go: Functional options are slow The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
over a year ago
40
over a year ago
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Multiple Computers I’ve spent so much time, had so many headaches, and encountered so much complexity from what, in my...
a month ago
25
a month ago
I’ve spent so much time, had so many headaches, and encountered so much complexity from what, in my estimation, boils down to this: trying to get something to work on multiple computers. It might be time to just go back to having one computer — a personal laptop — do everything....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s...
10 months ago
59
10 months ago
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website,...
Dan Slimmon
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
5 months ago
50
5 months ago
Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
What is a react component, anyways? I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write a simple component!”. But time after time I hear — “Vladimir, what’s a component, anyways?”. Bah, what a question! It’s a react thingie. React apps are made of components. Why do...
Maggie Appleton
March 2025
4 months ago
A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
over a year ago
35
over a year ago
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ejectable Defaults Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
over a year ago
27
over a year ago
Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
David Crawshaw
Remembering the LAN Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS. The network started off...
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
A Smart Bear
Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value) The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
over a year ago
32
over a year ago
I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
the singularity is...
Wireheading City I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line...
over a year ago
28
over a year ago
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line that defines civilization. Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
Stephen Wolfram...
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
over a year ago
39
over a year ago
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
People and Blogs and Me If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely...
a year ago
25
a year ago
If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely goal: to both highlight wonderful human beings and their blogs, and also to promote a healthier way to inhabit the web and show that traditional social media is not the be all and end...
Jibran’s Perspective
I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
a year ago
23
a year ago
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
37signals Dev
The radiating programmer You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems....
a year ago
21
a year ago
You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems. You dislike meetings and ceremony. Here’s what you can do to maximize what you like and minimize what you don’t: radiate information. The daily standup meetings that Scrum...
Steve Klabnik
Create a more compelling experience for your users through game mechanics
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
over a year ago
26
over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
Irrational...
Eng-Strategy-Book
a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
a year ago
79
a year ago
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility “Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and...
over a year ago
30
over a year ago
“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.
Irrational...
Navigating Private Equity ownership. In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to...
7 months ago
61
7 months ago
In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to make in 2024 when zero-interest rate policy is only a fond memory. Instead, we’re seeing a number of companies designed for rapid expansion learning to adapt to a world that...
Ink & Switch
Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools
a year ago
Max Countryman
Publish Your Drafts When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
over a year ago
53
over a year ago
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of...
a year ago
22
a year ago
My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with the SSO popups in this, namely that they just don't work at all, presumably because Electron blocks...
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
over a year ago
21
over a year ago
It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
Irrational...
Team Charters are a trap. I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email...
a year ago
31
a year ago
I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a...
alexwlchan
My Python snippet for walking a file tree I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and...
a year ago
22
a year ago
I write a lot of one-use Python scripts for quick analysis or cleaning something up on my disk, and they often involve iterating over a folder full of files. The key function for doing this is os.walk in the standard library, but it’s not quite what I want, so I have a wrapper...
Blog System/5
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
a year ago
19
a year ago
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
Yale e360
Betraying vim for the IDEs of March vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a...
over a year ago
23
over a year ago
vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a different editor. And I did it on March 15th2, the Ides of March. Or is it the IDEs of March? The betrayal happened slowly, then all at once. For the past few weeks I've been ruminating...
MMapped blog
When Rust hurts
over a year ago
macwright.com
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
a year ago
23
a year ago
I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
Nelson's Weblog
Passkey authenticators for consumers (May 2023) After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a...
over a year ago
83
over a year ago
After yesterday’s post about passkeys I got enough answers to learn how to use passkeys myself as a consumer. Here’s what I learned. If you want to try it yourself, passkeys.io is a nice demo server. Passkeys work a lot like passwords do today. You create a different passkey for...
David Crawshaw
2015-11-16 "Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal methods of measurement for how 'good' a language is, so it mostly happens by default as popular systems thrive and unpopular ones wither and...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
a year ago
6
a year ago
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s...
over a year ago
34
over a year ago
ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter. It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub. ActivityPub Under the...
HTMHell
You Don't Need ARIA For That In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
over a year ago
24
over a year ago
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some nice side effects such as supporting browser "reader" modes, SEO, graceful degradation, and exporting. Implementing semantic HTML will also greatly reduce the need for ARIA...
Steve Klabnik
Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
2 months ago
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
a year ago
31
a year ago
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Blog of Simple...
Why is my Simple Analytics data different from Google Analytics?
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our...
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Sports vs Games An aesthetic distinction
9 months ago
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q2 When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market...
over a year ago
110
over a year ago
When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market segmentation. In particular, you might be able to think about it in four segments Small Data – This refers to scenarios where companies have data problems (organization, modeling,...
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
a year ago
21
a year ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these...
8 months ago
55
8 months ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII control characters Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
18
over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
Ruud van Asseldonk
Working on a virtualenv without magic
over a year ago
Alex Meub
Controlling Wemo Smart Plugs with Arduino «««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them...
over a year ago
31
over a year ago
«««< HEAD Smart outlets are great. I’ve owned Belkin Wemo Mini smart plugs for years and used them for controlling lighting and fans. I thought it would be cool to control my Wemo plugs using a physical button (in addition to my phone). In many situations, a button is faster than...
alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our...
over a year ago
47
over a year ago
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Step 4: Profit? About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and...
over a year ago
29
over a year ago
About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of...
bt RSS Feed
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
Steve Klabnik
Living with a terrible taste in music
over a year ago
The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
Maggie Appleton
Smidgeons Welcome to the smidgeon stream. This is a new kind of content on the Garden. One that was
5 months ago
bt RSS Feed
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
over a year ago
21
over a year ago
CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Vadim Kravcenko
What is your unethical CS career’s advice? Hey there, First off, kudos to you for having the courage to ask the tough questions that many think...
a year ago
37
a year ago
Hey there, First off, kudos to you for having the courage to ask the tough questions that many think but […] The post What is your unethical CS career’s advice? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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...
a year ago
24
a year ago
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
Mach’s principle
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular PostHog alternatives, compared As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need...
over a year ago
27
over a year ago
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need quantitative and qualitative insights into user…
Dan Slimmon
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
3 months ago
35
3 months ago
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
Steve Klabnik
Better Ruby Presenters
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
over a year ago
43
over a year ago
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
a week ago
14
a week ago
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...
Grant Slatton
Rust Macros: Zero to Hero A comprehensive guide on Rust macros
10 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
Care about how the work is done High performers care deeply not just about doing the work but how it’s done.
a year ago
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
a year ago
75
a year ago
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
ByteofDev
React vs Svelte: Which is better in 2023? React and Svelte are both prevalent libraries for creating user interfaces. In this article we will...
over a year ago
13
over a year ago
React and Svelte are both prevalent libraries for creating user interfaces. In this article we will figure out which one is the better choice for new projects.
Making software...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
over a year ago
34
over a year ago
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Yale e360
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of...
a year ago
24
a year ago
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented RSA...
Tony Finch's blog
More random floating point numbers I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on...
over a year ago
21
over a year ago
I got some interesting comments about my previous notes on random floating point numbers on Lobsters, Dreamwidth, and from Pete Cawley on Twitter. Here’s an addendum about an alternative model of uniformity. There are 2^62 double precision floats between 0.0 and 1.0, but as...
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
a year ago
42
a year ago
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
David Heinemeier...
Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the...
a year ago
24
a year ago
I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to...
bt RSS Feed
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
over a year ago
22
over a year ago
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...