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Words and Buttons...
Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine...
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This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine and Taylor series work all with animated plots in arctangent scale.
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 ways to improve your product analytics data This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at...
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This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at cybersecurity company Snyk . She is currently an…
Blog System/5
Links: December 2023 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s a long time...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s a long time ago now, however I still remember it very well. When I first went about creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product] for Buffer,...
Alex MacCaw
The Toad
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Upload (short story) My first attempt at bringing back the short story in ~30 years.
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
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Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
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I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
David Heinemeier...
Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
Engineer’s Codex
A simple software engineering productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These...
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a year ago
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
The Changelog
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I...
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Like many young programmers of my age, before I could use the Internet, there were BBSs. I eventually ran one, though in my small town there were few callers. Some time back, I downloaded a copy of Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary. You might know Jason Scott from textfiles.com and...
Marc Astbury
Annual Review 2024 Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the...
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6 months ago
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the cool 15 degree climate. This year, I’m in freezing cold Sapporo drinking a carton of the delicious local milk. For simplicity, I’m largely sticking to the format from my 2023 annual...
A Beautiful Site
Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
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over a year ago
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa.  There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production. #...
Liz Denys
French onion soup redux If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
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over a year ago
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me. But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
Joel Gascoigne
Feeling like a fraud while doing startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any success with Buffer, I helped many startups with their ideas. I attended events, spoke at events and even created my own meetup for startups. These were not particularly big...
Maggie Appleton
Joining Ought A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
over a year ago
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs. There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
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There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
HTMHell
#7 multiple duplicate ids and table layout Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr...
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Bad code <table> <tr id="body"> <td id="body"> <table id="body"> <tr id="body_row"> <td id="body_left">…</td> <td id="body_middle">…</td> <td id="body_right">…</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> ...
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
a year ago
Yale E360
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
The Codist
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
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2 months ago
Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Rust Contributors
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Fast compilers for fast programs Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the...
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Fast compilers for fast programs Compiler author incentives Aside: languages get caught in the middle The "medium-sized project" moment 2019-04-14 Compiler authors face a tradeoff between compiler speed and executable speed. Take longer to build a binary and you can build a...
Steve Klabnik
Narratives
over a year ago
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
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Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
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Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
blag
Introducing CaskDB – a project to teach you writing a key-value store CaskDB is an educational project which aims to guide you in writing a persistent, embeddable...
over a year ago
HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
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When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone. Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function. Three options are: Alternative Text Long...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Seven habits of bad interviewers I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes...
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I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes further than that. Bizarre questions like “what’s the difference between a number and an array” are just a symptom of deeper issues. Let’s take a step back — why are we...
Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
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The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for Developers: will smooth space/open source suffice to save us?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example:...
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a year ago
There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is...
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Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned. I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post about it. These introductory sections...
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
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When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Making software...
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.6.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 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. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Paying for content after you've consumed it Platforms like Patreon created a new paradigm. By billing periodically they created predictability...
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Platforms like Patreon created a new paradigm. By billing periodically they created predictability for content creators allowing them to switch to full-time. But, might it be better for content creators, and consumers, if they were paid a flexible amount after the content was...
MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy. Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
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Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform. This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs, as one component in understanding the company’s strategy. In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
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We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
a year ago
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a year ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
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A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven...
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Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is a good idea at the time. But in retrospect my rationales are quite often specious. At one point in the past, I decided that I...
samwho.dev
API Design: Optional Parameters When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases....
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When we write functions, it's common to want to give the user options to suit a range of use-cases. There are good ways and bad ways of doing it, and this post is going to explore them. › Guiding principles API design is hard. A good API needs to be: Easy to change without...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Distraction-free writing: a failed experiment This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing device. Maybe that’s why I...
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This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing device. Maybe that’s why I never use it. AlphaSmart3000 in its Bondi-blue glory Before the term “distraction-free” made sense, there was AlphaSmart. Oozing with early-aughts Apple aesthetics, the...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
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Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Making software...
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
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Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
David Heinemeier...
Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
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For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 3: Related work
a year ago
Making software...
Easy Custom Radio Inputs Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
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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...
Acko.net
Use.GPU Goes Trad Old is new again I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative...
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Old is new again I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative WebGPU framework, now at version 0.8. My goal is to make GPU rendering easier and more sane. I do this by applying the lessons and patterns learned from the React world, and...
Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
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Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
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...
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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...
Tony Finch's blog
Moaning about YAML frontmatter As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site is generated from a file...
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As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site is generated from a file containing markdown with YAML frontmatter. Neither markdown nor YAML are good. Markdown is very much the worse-is-better of markup languages; YAML, on the other hand, is more like...
bt RSS Feed
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
ByteofDev
The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023 We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
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Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
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,...
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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:...
PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog teams up with Altinity That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the...
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That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the launch of the PostHog Marketplace . Double…
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles] Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
8 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Put down the compiler until you learn why they're not buying Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just...
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We are a place of business After the disastrous launch of their Gemini AI, which insisted that George Washington was actually...
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After the disastrous launch of their Gemini AI, which insisted that George Washington was actually Black and couldn't decide whether Musk's tweets or Hitler was worse, Google's response was timid and weak. This was just a bug! A problem with QA! It absolutely, positively wasn't a...
Blog - Bitfield...
Best Rust books for 2024 There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are...
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There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look...
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over a year ago
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
Yale E360
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in...
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a year ago
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years. The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people. It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
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a year ago
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps: 1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
Basta’s Notes
That time I broke login at Box and what it says about business logic and code re-use
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees with children under three. However, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act was amended in May 2024, with some of the new provisions coming into effect April 1 or October 1,...
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...
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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...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
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over a year ago
Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank. What is the tiny corp? The...
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over a year ago
Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank. What is the tiny corp? The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
alexwlchan
Creating a Python dictionary with multiple, equivalent keys In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times...
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In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together. I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs: pairs = { 'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …}, 'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
sancho.dev
Hello Internet
over a year ago
General Robots
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics (An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong...
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(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
Irrational...
Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
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One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
A Beautiful Site
SVG has a logo HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together...
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over a year ago
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together matching logos for CSS. But did you know that SVG also has an official logo, and it's—flowery? The W3C describes it as: The flower-like structure of the SVG logo evokes creativity and...
Eric Bailey
Yes, accessibility is also a backend concern There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what...
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There is a prevailing notion in web development that the frontend—the discipline of creating what someone can see and do on a website or web app—is the only place you need to consider accessibility. This simply isn’t true. Accessibility is a holistic practice that touches every...
A Beautiful Site
PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in...
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I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in convenient PHP functions. // Returns only the file extension (without the dot) function file_ext($filename) { return preg_match('/\./', $filename) ? preg_replace('/^.*\./', '',...
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
Steve Klabnik
thank u, next
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my startup [https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with] is that I get the...
TokyoDev
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
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2 months ago
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
Neil Panchal
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU...
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over a year ago
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU Model Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo) CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189 Motherboard Supermicro...
samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
Engineer’s Codex
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
a year ago
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
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We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
David Heinemeier...
We'll always need junior programmers We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're...
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2 months ago
We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're going through all of them by hand and by human. No AI screening here. It's a lot of work, but we have a great team who take the work seriously, so in a few weeks, we'll be able to...
MMapped blog
Universal domain types
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Future is Flutter Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and...
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a year ago
Despite my departure from Google, I am not leaving Flutter — the great thing about open source and open standards is that the product and the employer are orthogonal. I've had three employers in my career, and in all three cases when I left my employer I continued my job. With...
Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
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Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
Tinloof - Blog
How to integrate Fathom Analytics into your Remix App When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your...
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over a year ago
When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
Liz Denys
Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
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a year ago
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about...
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I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom. I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla. Most of that is gone now. Links rot quickly,...
Steve Klabnik
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
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
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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...
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Making software...
Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve been learning some new things. None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought about them...
Contraption Co.
Behind the scenes of the Find AI API We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs...
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8 months ago
We recently released a Search API for Find AI, and announced its integration with Clay.com. APIs allow developers to interact with a product using code. There are many different ways to build an API, and many tools to make it easier for customers to adopt. In this post, I&
A Beautiful Site
SVG Repo I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images. Check it out over at SVG repo. Looks like they have a sister site for fonts, too. Lots of 'em.
MMapped blog
When Rust hurts
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Slow, flaky, and failing Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
Making software...
February 2022 Update February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
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over a year ago
February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
Eric Bailey
My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I probably should not, and then rush to address the gap so I don’t look strange on a Zoom call or at the grocery store. This is to say that quarantine has melted my brain. Speaking of...
Tinloof - Blog
The SEO scam: $62,000 later Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads. Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search engines place your website...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta *Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit. He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
A Smart Bear
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
6 months ago
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
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The Perfect Restaurant This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search: template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp> It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
Epic Web Dev
.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article) A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their differences, use cases, and best practices
Blog of Simple...
Cookie banners: How to stay GDPR compliant?
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
Chart of Accounts for Startups and SaaS Companies Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Accounting is fundamental to starting a business. You need to have a basic understanding of accounting principles and essential bookkeeping. I had to learn it. There was no choice. For filing taxes, your CPA is going to ask you for an Income Statement (also known as P/L...
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
a year ago
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a year ago
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
blag
Recurse Center Day 6: B Tree Root B Tree Root: how would you design it?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recent [End of Localhost](https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost) piece on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762) came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into [blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1 Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues...
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over a year ago
Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues and how to fix them The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1. The heading is...
The History of the...
It’s Lists All the Way Down When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that's kind of what it was meant...
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9 months ago
When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that's kind of what it was meant for. The post It’s Lists All the Way Down appeared first on The History of the Web.
somenice
Cloth Simulation with Procedural Plaid This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This was fun, because how can you have too much plaid?Thanks to Ryan King Art on Youtube for the Blender tutorial series on material nodes. His tutorials are great and I appreciate the effort in his editing. Support him if you can. I often joke that I’ve learned Blender 3D every...
Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
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over a year ago
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
The Codist
Good Programmers Can Be Anyone, But Not Everyone In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my four decades as a programmer, I've worked with hundreds of programmers, and I can say that no single type of person is good at programming. I've seen young people who could do amazing work and those without a clue. I've seen programmers
A Smart Bear
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an...
a year ago
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a year ago
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
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4 months ago
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
Stephen Wolfram...
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described...
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See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see...
Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.24.0 Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP...
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Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP 🏆 This release cycle's Community MVP goes to…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts You want
over a year ago
Yale E360
Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
Irrational...
Friction isn't velocity. When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows...
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a year ago
When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows down. The air will flow in, the wind will get louder, and the sensation of moving will intensify. Your engine will start working a bit harder–and louder–to maintain the same...
A Smart Bear
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies A contrarian look at logical "fallacies" that maybe aren't so illogical after all.
9 months ago
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
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Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Making the fish shell more forgetful For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool...
a year ago
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a year ago
For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history. As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before. I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
David Heinemeier...
The law of the land Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
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over a year ago
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
Confessions of a...
How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
a year ago
macwright.com
How to set headers on objects in R2 using rclone How do you set a Cache-Control header on an object in R2 when you’re using rclone to upload? I...
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a year ago
How do you set a Cache-Control header on an object in R2 when you’re using rclone to upload? I burned a lot of time figuring this out. There are a lot of options that look like they’ll do it, but here it is: --header-upload='Cache-Control:...
Steve Klabnik
Returning to Free Software, a guide
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
The five types of people who produce inaccessible code There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They are: People who create inaccessible code, but do not realize they are doing so. People who create inaccessible code and realize they are doing so, but do not know how to fix it. People...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
a year ago
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.36.0: Introducing AND/OR filtering, timezone support and universal search PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard...
over a year ago
TokyoDev
All code is technical debt Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
Irrational...
Management
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
System tests have failed When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In...
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When we introduced a default setup for system tests in Rails 5.1 back in 2016, I had high hopes. In theory, system tests, which drive a headless browser through your actual interface, offer greater confidence that the entire machine is working as it ought. And because it runs in...
The Changelog
Recommendations for Tools for Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and archived. Backups and archives are often thought of as similar. And indeed, they may be done with the same tools at the same time. But the goals differ somewhat: Backups are...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Blog - Bitfield...
Iterators in Go Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we...
11 months ago
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Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
TokyoDev
Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
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over a year ago
Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
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Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
Making software...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
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How to run finance at your startup without hiring a finance person We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step...
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We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to do just that. If you implement…
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How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
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One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
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A love letter to Apache Echarts In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place...
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In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them. I know this because I even wrote one. When you find a gem...
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JavaScript's ...spread Operator Illustrated notes on how JavaScript's spread operator works
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The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
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This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
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The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4...
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In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) or another provider. This hasn't proved a…
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Smaller Go 1.7 binaries blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
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Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
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Paleolithic Nostalgia Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
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How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
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As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
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CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
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How to transfigure wireframes into HTML Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
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Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
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2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
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Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
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SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
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My work at early Twitter I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm...
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I worked at Twitter part-time starting June 2007. I've never talked much about this in public. I'm revisiting it because of the complete disaster Elon Musk has made of Twitter. His sabotage of the company has felt personal to me. It hurts to watch him destroy something I helped...
Max Countryman
Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
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I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
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Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
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In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
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Why I prefer rST to markdown I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on...
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I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here. This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable...
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Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable to a cognitive bias known as results-oriented thinking. But to optimize for success, we should avoid this bias and strive to replace it with sound strategy.
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We Need To Talk About Vercel Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
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Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
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We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to...
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After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on...
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Open source licenses as a reflection of values I'm the kind of nerd that has a favorite software license. For a while that favorite license was the...
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I'm the kind of nerd that has a favorite software license. For a while that favorite license was the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Right now, it's the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). Licenses are really important on all code, and they're critical to the open source...
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Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
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Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
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Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
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How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
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This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
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Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
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If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
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Lessons in DDD from building an e-commerce platform In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off...
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In a recent conversation with some colleagues, we were talking about how startups make the trade-off between design, domain-driven specifically, in favor of speed. They intentionally take on debt, technical and otherwise, to move faster. I wasn’t in favour of employing DDD in a...
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Wokeism There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
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There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this. When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got: The first...
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Eternal Robustness "Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
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Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers) Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
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Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
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Array 1.0.8 Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be...
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Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be doing weekly tagged releases from now on so the…
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Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
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Twitter Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life
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Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
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We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
macwright.com
Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
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A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...
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Array 1.26.0 PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4...
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PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4 new team members we've onboarded.
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Progressive enhancement brings everyone in Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
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Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement. The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
Eric Bailey
In defense of Mega Man boss lairs Mega Man games are light on plot, but do a lot of showing not telling. This happens to be my...
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Mega Man games are light on plot, but do a lot of showing not telling. This happens to be my favorite form of storytelling, so of course I spent too much time thinking about the Mega Man universe. If you’re not familiar, Mega Man is a popular video game franchise, as well as the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Networking as an introvert CTO There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like...
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There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish […] The post Networking as an introvert CTO appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Irrational...
Should we decompose our monolith? From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a...
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From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make. Even migrating to a...
Steve Klabnik
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Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles...
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In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
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How to apply Hilltop's Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 English patch on Linux Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for...
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Haven't blogged in awhile, so here’s a quickie. Last week, Hilltop released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, which finally makes the Japan exclusive PS2 game accessible to us English speaking folks. The README explains how to apply the patch on Windows or via a web...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
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Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo
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Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text I played a lot of the pen-and-paper roleplaying game in high school and college. I’m now...
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I played a lot of the pen-and-paper roleplaying game in high school and college. I’m now conceptually more into Dungeon World’s approach, but I digress. Unlike Tom Hanks, I avoided turning into a delusional murderer. Instead, I deepened some friendships, had a lot of big laughs,...
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How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
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Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
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Revisiting the DOS memory models At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
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At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
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Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
TokyoDev
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
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My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
MMapped blog
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Let’s Talk About Speech CSS
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I could have been happy with Windows After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
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After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
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Simply explained: Where do programming languages come from? Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the...
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Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the plane to the game consoles. They can do so many things, but how do we tell them what to do? This involves programming, and people writing the program in specific languages made to...
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Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
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A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Computer Things
Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
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I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
A Smart Bear
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Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
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Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer...
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Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer). You can also watch the video on YouTube. The content itself...
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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
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CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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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...
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
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My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely...
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Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely my own. Early in my career, I did…
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
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Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
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Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
Vadim Kravcenko
How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of...
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Hello Torb, So I’ve seen this question pop out several times, and I understand the frustration of not being considered […] The post How to get programming experience when you can’t find a job? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
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I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
TokyoDev
How to buy a house in Japan Since moving to Japan on a J-Find visa, I’ve been curious about buying a home in Japan. This is a...
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Since moving to Japan on a J-Find visa, I’ve been curious about buying a home in Japan. This is a big topic with lots of details to consider, and so after having discussions with several experts, Emil Gorgees from RealEstate.jp, James Howell from Kanachu, Masaru Takeyama from...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
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Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in...
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We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in Western media or online discourse. Indeed, there is a growing sentiment that ‘the system isn’t working’, ‘the system is rigged’,  and that ‘
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
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This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
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Spinning Diagrams with CSS
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
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In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
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Dangerous Misinformation When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
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When I Google myself, I get this infobox: As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4” Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
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Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
General Robots
Tech Debt When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that...
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When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future Proof. They have grand visions and world changing ambitions. Those make it seem like they should be building grand software, to...
TokyoDev
How I Obtained a Business Manager Visa in Japan Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa...
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Back in August of 2017, I was facing a tough situation. Newly divorced, I had lost my spousal visa and thus my permission to stay in Japan as well. I was in my late 40s and, although I had significant work experience, I had no university degree. I wanted to remain in Japan but I...
Marc Astbury
Place Your Bets Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect...
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Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect information. The Market Bet Your foundational bet isn’t just picking a market, it’s betting that you understand how that market will evolve. This bet shapes everything downstream: If...
David Heinemeier...
Imperfections create connections The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a...
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The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the most iconic sports car ever made. This fundamental imperfection is part of how it creates the connection. This is true of mechanical watches...
Making software...
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
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(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
Joel Gascoigne
How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
Jake Zimmerman
Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
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Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Finding The Last Editor Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever...
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Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on their system? They'll make it work. Using a different framework or language every few years? No problem. I envy that level of versatility, but I've come to accept it just...
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
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Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
Maggie Appleton
Ambient Co-presence Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
a year ago
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
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English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
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On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
Cognitive...
Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
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Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
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The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
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What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
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Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
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I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple...
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Binstack is the best way to select a “single most impactful” solution when there are multiple dimensions to evaluate, even when those dimensions cannot be compared to each other. People often reach for the “rubric” for such puzzles, but rubrics often do not clearly identify a...
David Crawshaw
2015-12-04 www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
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TokyoDev
Guesstimating Your Lifestyle in Japan One common question in our Discord community is, “How much money do I need to make to live...
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One common question in our Discord community is, “How much money do I need to make to live comfortably in Japan?” This question can be difficult to answer in a way that is both broadly useful and personally meaningful. Here, I will explain what goes into living expenses in Japan,...
Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
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This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Computer Things
Write the most clever code you possibly can I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
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I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead! New Logic for Programmers release! v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
Basta’s Notes
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Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (tip)
a year ago
TokyoDev
Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
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Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job. If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
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If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work. Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray. Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
Charles Chen
A Practical Guide to Modular Monoliths with .NET Feeling too much friction from your microservices architecture? It's time to revisit monoliths.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
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Yale E360
A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website,...
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January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website, chess.com1. Their service has been experiencing an unprecedented amount downtime because of a huge influx of users2. There have been days where it's all but unusable. It's frustrating as...
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The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks,...
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The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
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...
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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...
Liz Denys
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
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A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District: Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull But she wasn't...
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
Julia Evans
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies...
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Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Here’s the video, as...
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...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
3 months ago
MMapped blog
2024 retrospective
5 months ago