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2023: The Rollercoaster
Job hunting
Freelancing
Side Projects
NativePHP
Spred
Veliance & Laradir
Streaming
Personal...
29th Dec 2023
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...
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
13th Dec 2024
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
10th Jan 2024
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
24th Sep 2023
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
15th Dec 2023
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on...
21st Aug 2022
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
Eric Bailey
A designer developing for Android
8th Nov 2018
Blog System/5
Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
8th Jul 2026
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
5th Aug 2023
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
12th Apr 2021
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
Buttondown's blog
Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly...
2nd Apr 2024
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly newsletter about design, typography, and creativity.
Josh Comeau's blog
Persisting React State in localStorage
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
24th Feb 2020
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 11–15
11th Jan 2025
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Toward a More Useful X Keyboard
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend
as much time as necessary...
23rd Jan 2015
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend
as much time as necessary perfecting my keyboard configuration. It’s one
of those things that you know you can make absolutely
perfect—given enough time and energy. On Linux, when you spend enough
time bashing...
Josh Collinsworth
A decade of code
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
10th May 2024
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
ntietz.com blog -...
What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust?
I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with...
6th Feb 2023
I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers.
Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory.
The difference between...
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
1st Oct 2020
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Making software...
The Death of Personality
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
1st Nov 2017
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
The Web Witch's Blog
A Year at Igalia
March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia. It simultaneously feels like the blink of an...
17th Mar 2025
March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia. It simultaneously feels like the blink of an eye and also decade. I suspect that's just the way life goes.
It has been a busy year of rebuilding my self-confidence in my career. Despite it being 2 years since relocating to...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list”
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p>...
13th Jan 2022
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item.
The “list”...
ntietz.com blog -...
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009.
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way.
Most...
1st Jan 2024
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way.
Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
Blog System/5
Bazel and action (non-) determinism
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
21st Jul 2025
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
8th Mar 2023
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
24th Dec 2022
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
sancho.dev
Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
3rd Dec 2025
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
wingolog
ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed...
6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel
The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel
itself:
Then run a quick check with :hello, world
Now give a check...
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
25th Dec 2022
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
macwright.com
Bandcamp wrapped
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside...
6th Dec 2024
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s
great and has been working well for me.
Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games
(?) and then acquired...
somenice
Hummingbird at the feeder
With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not...
10th Apr 2024
With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
Chris Nicholas
How to animate multiplayer cursors
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are...
5th Jul 2022
Smoothly rendering live cursors is more difficult than it sounds when real-world conditions are taken into account.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Markdown Today: Journal from any browser
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
7th Apr 2017
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
wingolog
free trade and the left, ter: mises and my apostasy
Good evening. Let’s talk about free trade!
Last time, ,
which looks at how the cause of free trade...
6th Mar 2026
Good evening. Let’s talk about free trade!
Last time, ,
which looks at how the cause of free trade was taken up by a motley crew
of anti-imperialists, internationalists, pacifists, marxists, and
classical liberals in the nineteenth century. Protectionism was the
prerogative of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
Dan Slimmon
Is ops a bullshit job?
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
11th Feb 2025
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works!
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine
is FINALLY done! It...
3rd Jun 2024
Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine
is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday!
You can get it for $12 here:
https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get
an 14-pack of all my zines here.
Here’s the cover:
the table of contents
Here’s the table...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now
It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the...
22nd Sep 2025
It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the details about what’s new since OS 8.0.1, make sure to check out our posts from May until now. In this post I’ll just be covering our progress over the last month up until the release...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
29th May 2021
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React?
We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
Joel Gascoigne
Questioning and adjusting our goals
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9th Jan 2011
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People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and
doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In
addition to making things systematic, I...
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
24th Jan 2023
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project.
And that was just the beta version.
Today, I'm happy to announce that...
Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator?
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
5th Oct 2021
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online:
I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-11-04
Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero
2022-11-04
Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Sedimental
Enterprise Software with Python
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a...
22nd Mar 2016
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of
reactions. Some I expected:
Surprise at Python in the enterprise space.
Relief at more attestation of Python's use in the enterprise.
And, as with all the best, a few...
A Beautiful Site
How I Use GitHub Issues
I like using GitHub issues for actionable things such as bugs and backlog items I've committed to...
4th Aug 2025
I like using GitHub issues for actionable things such as bugs and backlog items I've committed to doing. Non-maintainers are encouraged to open issues only for bugs, whereas everything else is a discussion.
Bug Report 👉 Issue
Help/support 👉 Discussion
Ask a question 👉...
Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising
Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
sancho.dev
4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
9th May 2024
Epic Web Dev
Simple Apps Without package.json - Problem (tip)
5th Dec 2025
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why I switched from Vundle to Plug
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
10th Sep 2014
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
Sebastian Witowski
My Favorite Macbook Tools
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here.
I could spend...
9th Jan 2020
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here.
I could spend days just tweaking things on my computer. Actually, I do. Whenever I see something annoying, I want to drop everything and try to fix it right away. It can be anything. From a...
Confessions of a...
How PyTorch Generates Random Numbers in Parallel on the GPU
A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
18th Dec 2025
A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
swyx's site RSS Feed
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2021 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI in Software Development
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how...
20th Apr 2026
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how we create, solve problems, and bring ideas to life.
I didn't always feel this way.. But these days, I use AI regularly in my work and I expect that to continue.
We may not have...
Liz Denys
Blooms and roots embroidery
I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am...
26th Aug 2022
I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am often wont to do, I deviated from the prescribed stitches, especially in the roots section so the different flowers had distinct roots. Here's the finished piece:
wingolog
whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with...
7th Aug 2025
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with muddled results, then a slog through heuristics.my Immix-inspired garbage
collector
My mostly-marking collector’s main space is called the .
Its name comes from its historical...
Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
23rd Nov 2021
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
6th Oct 2019
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
ByteofDev
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023?
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
5th Feb 2023
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it?
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
30th Jun 2020
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
15th Apr 2019
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2:
“Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day.
First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
Boot.dev Blog
Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
24th Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
Marco.org
Overcast summer update
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low...
21st Jul 2019
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
The Web Witch's Blog
The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 13 May 2022
15 May 2022
My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I...
15th May 2022
15 May 2022
My life has been a bundle of joy since I moved into Seattle from Redmond in March, and I couldn't be happier. I've managed to get out and paddle board a few times though the weather has been largely abysmal. It's still snowing in the mountains but the snowpack is well...
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
8th Jan 2019
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
bt RSS Feed
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
9th Jan 2023
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
On Life and Lisp
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
Upgrade your Asahi Linux
systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big...
6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux
systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:
leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1!
Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0.
That means more playable games and more functioning...
bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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...
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website.
Scroll to a specific element #
Here's how to...
Vadim Kravcenko
Self-Organizing Teams
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
17th Dec 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […]
The post Self-Organizing Teams appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup
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6th Mar 2011
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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...
Charles Petzold
The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online...
17th May 2025
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms. Although the book is mostly focused on the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, I believe that even histories of science and...
Philip I. Thomas
Before and after Almost Perfect
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
Boot.dev Blog
7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
alexwlchan
When square pixels aren’t square
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080...
5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write:
<video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080">
If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
Words and Buttons...
Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately.
Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately.
Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive.
As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey...
26th Mar 2017
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity.
Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
2nd Aug 2023
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me:
Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
David Gerrells
never give up
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
10th Oct 2021
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Sometimes It Works...
When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t…
When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even...
12th Dec 2017
When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even a mention of framework speed. The truth is in practice that it just doesn’t matter for a large proportion of use-cases and certainly not for ours (funded startup with tens of...
Daniel Immke
How I write blog posts every month
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
17th Feb 2018
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
Buttondown's blog
Mastodon support
Mastodon support
1st Dec 2022
37signals Dev
Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit
What is an homograph attack
Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
25th Jun 2024
What is an homograph attack
Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters.
A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
8th Jul 2022
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
ntietz.com blog -...
Growing Teams and Baking Bread
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
21st Jan 2017
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough.
There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
Marco.org
Bob and Van
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a...
a week ago
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died....
Josh Collinsworth
Man cereal
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
4th Jun 2023
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
7th Sep 2017
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
Jordan Eldredge's...
New Song: Ballad of the man who can't sing
I wrote and recorded an original song about not being able to write.
4th Aug 2008
I wrote and recorded an original song about not being able to write.
A Beautiful Site
My Commitment to Accessibility
I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to...
2nd Jun 2023
I recognize the need for all users, regardless of ability and device, to have undeterred access to the websites and applications that are created with it. This is an important goal of my projects.
Oftentimes, people will ask "is it accessible?" I'm reluctant to answer because...
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
10th Apr 2021
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
Founder's blog
Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
2nd Oct 2023
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
somenice
Film in the Fridge
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too...
7th May 2026
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too many additional stops.I think this may be the golden age. Enjoy while you can.
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
2nd Feb 2023
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
Confessions of a...
x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing...
9th Aug 2026
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing modes along with some interesting examples and exercises.
Sedimental
RWC 2016 Lightning Talk
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the
Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the
Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This
is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk.
I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly
focus on Python frameworks and software...
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
3rd May 2023
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
Sedimental
Intentional Creation
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create.
This is one of...
4th Jan 2023
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create.
This is one of my oldest ideas, finally published on the GitHub ReadME Project blog, along with a profile, in June 2022. For more like this, follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. (You can also read it...
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
The Changelog
Artificial Intelligence: Shades of Gray
AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people...
25th Mar 2026
AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it. To a lot of people around here, I’m the “computer person” they know and I get asked a lot about AI. I’m going to suggest a lot of things can be true at once. For instance: LLMs … Continue reading...
ntietz.com blog -...
How I Work Remotely
I've been working remote since September 2016. There are a lot of engineers who have worked remote...
2nd Jun 2018
I've been working remote since September 2016. There are a lot of engineers who have worked remote longer than I have; there are others who have more insight into how they work than I do; and there are plenty of people who simply don't work in the same way I do. My intention in...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool.
DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use
onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog...
1st Jun 2007
DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use
onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog of the week!) As my five or six regular readers
may already know, there exists a fantastic website called Daily
Cup of Tech that I have featured on this website a few times (or...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
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...
16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a
simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence
of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other
meshes as well, although that is presently...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Rules of Margin Collapse
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets...
7th Dec 2020
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
Hixie's Natural Log
How big is the Flutter team?
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because...
3rd Feb 2024
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
A Day In The Life...
I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
16th Dec 2023
I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
9th Jan 2014
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
Buttondown's blog
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
9th Aug 2023
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
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Oct 2019 Recap
Hello mailing list friends!
2nd Nov 2019
Hello mailing list friends!
TokyoDev
A Developer’s Guide to Japanese Resumes
Job-hunting in Japan as a developer may require you to create an English resume, a Japanese resume,...
12th Nov 2025
Job-hunting in Japan as a developer may require you to create an English resume, a Japanese resume, or both. While the companies posting on TokyoDev expect an English-language resume, companies with a mainly Japanese workforce may have different requirements.
There are two types...
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Three Jobs of Containers
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7th May 2024
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
Ralph Ammer
No more boring drawings!
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings....
28th Jan 2026
Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. They teach us how to make photo-like drawings. Such renderings look decent but also generic, conventional—like something an AI tool might produce. And they are also… boring. Why is that? Because they don’t mean anything. Meaning...
Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
2nd Jul 2025
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
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What you can do in a decade
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Tom MacWright
Recently
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but
it didn’t yield much content. I...
2nd Nov 2025
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but
it didn’t yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time
with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I
did earlier this year. Next year I’m thinking about training at
a...
Jordan Eldredge's...
A Tour of Winamp2-js Features
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
8th Mar 2018
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
Brendan Gregg's Blog
USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding...
28th Feb 2023
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition, and this was the first time...
The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
A Smart Bear
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
3rd Nov 2024
Is it LTV? Retention? NRR? Magic Number? Rule of 40? Or: Do you need to un-ask the question.
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible...
4th Aug 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I’m excited for the next one!
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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
8th Nov 2021
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.
Boot.dev Blog
Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency...
4th Jun 2020
In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other. For example, if I have a web page that needs to request seven files from the server before it can show the page, I need to asynchronously fetch all those...
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
8th Mar 2024
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.
David Crawshaw
2014-01-17
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
17th Jan 2014
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
elementary Blog
Who Monitors The Monitor?
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
The History of the...
Feeling Less Lonely
I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling...
7th Oct 2025
I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling lonely on the web. And maybe now, I'm feeling a bit less so. So thank you to everyone who responded.
The post Feeling Less Lonely appeared first on The History of the Web.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Buying a house 🏠 in 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We
just finished moving. I learned a...
4th Sep 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We
just finished moving. I learned a lot during this process. I’m writing
it down while it’s still fresh in my mind.
Why not rent?
I’ve always rented and thought I would continue to rent forever. When
I was still in...
bt RSS Feed
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Nue developer blog
The perfect web framework for UX developers
In June 2023 I had my final frontend rage-quit moment. The anger was so intense that I decided to...
23rd Jan 2024
In June 2023 I had my final frontend rage-quit moment. The anger was so intense that I decided to change the direction of my career from a startup founder to a full-time OSS developer. I would devote all my time to fixing everything that is wrong with the current front-end...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Silly fach generator
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
2nd Jan 2013
I created a website that will generate silly fach names.
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...
2nd Dec 2024
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...
bt RSS Feed
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please…
Google has created one of the best operating systems designed...
Blog - Bitfield...
The magic function
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use
them! Let’s build a...
3rd Jan 2025
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use
them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic
function” approach.
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
31st Oct 2013
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
Blog of Simple...
Google loses key antitrust case
9th Sep 2024
Alex Meub
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
24th Dec 2023
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
beep.blog
Twitter subscriptions
I don’t need anything more than human support.
9th Feb 2021
I don’t need anything more than human support.
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
1st Jul 2023
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Basta’s Notes
Happier development
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
Ruud van Asseldonk
A perspective shift on automated market makers through MEV
7th Dec 2021
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Web
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
Miguel Carranza
100 Lessons From Building a 100-Person Org
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a...
3rd Jun 2026
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a little crazy to me. My own org is now bigger than any company I had worked at before starting RevenueCat. As a technical founder, I always preferred computers over people. Computers...
Eric Bailey
The optics of pair programming
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
17th May 2022
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design.
In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
The Web Witch's Blog
Six Weeks
Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am...
27th Feb 2026
Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am finally able to finish and hit publish.
Six weeks ago I gave birth to my daughter. In some ways it didn't go according to plan.
I had hoped to have a water birth. I imagined arriving...
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
5th Mar 2022
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography.
Berkeley Mono Font Variants
Quick update on people asking what's the...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
5th Jun 2024
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go.
The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
2nd Oct 2023
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects.
Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience.
In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup.
Startups #
Throughout college, I...
Eric Bailey
Quality is a trap
Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to...
25th Jun 2025
Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to periodically erupt on social media. Also like cicadas, these articles are as predicable as they are irritating.
I can’t count the amount of Medium thinkpieces I’ve seen come and go where an...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a...
22nd Sep 2019
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unknown depth, such as a JSON object, and that’s often best solved recursively. Even though recursion is rare, it is...
Sedimental
Awesome Python Applications
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading...
20th Dec 2018
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading this (or hearing
this), you read and write code, probably
Python. And for all the code you've shipped, you've probably had your
share of missed requirements. Somehere in the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
15th Apr 2025
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC:
Screenshot...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about...
13th Sep 2024
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,...
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
3rd Jun 2020
…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that live in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks. To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks. To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces. The terminology...
Alice GG
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator,
I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
6th Dec 2023
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator,
I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users.
To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically.
Do you really need an LLM for that?
The problem of...
General Robots
Physical Intelligence Sweeps Humanoid Olympics
More coming soon
5th Jan 2026
Grant Slatton
How to Bootstrap a Town
A modest plan
1st Oct 2024
charity.wtf
From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who...
24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
8th Mar 2012
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Recently
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
1st Nov 2023
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Tom MacWright
Sketches
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face.
Faces...
31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face.
Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2025
I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
24th Jan 2025
I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
Kagi Blog
Announcing The Assistant
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience,...
4th Sep 2024
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience, creating a smarter, faster, and more intuitive search.
The Changelog
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
28th Mar 2025
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
A Smart Bear
The Startup Drake Equation
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
2nd Feb 2025
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
Alice GG
DEFCON 30
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around...
20th Nov 2022
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around 27000 hackers in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
With more than 30 villages and 3 main conference tracks, the event managed to cover pretty much every subject from malware...
Eliran Turgeman
First week of Byte-Sized Tech
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech.
My main goal in creating...
6th Sep 2024
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech.
My main goal in creating this channel was to read tech books. I wanted to summarize them to avoid just skimming.
It hasn’t gained much traffic yet. But, I hope it will resonate with more people so that I...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
6th Aug 2023
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
Basta’s Notes
Read every error. You can't read every error.
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
18th Aug 2023
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
ByteofDev
A Quick(ish) Introduction to Tuning Postgres
Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better...
21st Jul 2025
Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better understanding of Postgres fundamentals along the way.
Stephen Wolfram...
Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected
21st Jul 2026
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the...
1st Aug 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the entire month traveling. It was great to be back in LA and Denver for a bit. - For coffee on the road, I...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering.
Older...
18th Jul 2018
Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering.
Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server.
It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom
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5th May 2012
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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...
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
3rd Mar 2023
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
Remains of the Day
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.
Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
26th Feb 2019
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor.
Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement
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2nd Oct 2012
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I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating
ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous
and no matter how much you love an...
Engineer’s Codex
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
22nd Apr 2024
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.
1st Feb 2021
Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.
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How to change custom domain on Substack
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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