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Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
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Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
Stephen Wolfram...
Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 1 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
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This is part 1 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
Maggie Appleton
JavaScript's ...spread Operator Illustrated notes on how JavaScript's spread operator works
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library...
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Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes 2018-04-02, David Crawshaw The Go standard library includes , a generic SQL interface. It does a good job of doing exactly what it says it does, providing a generic interface to various SQL database servers. Sometimes that is what you want....
the singularity is...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
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I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Yale e360
Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's...
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a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's goals, and talking about hopes and goals for next year. They're cliche, and they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other...
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
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Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Josh Comeau's blog
How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
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An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
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...
Epic Web Dev
Git Fundamentals (tutorial)
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
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It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
Blog - Bitfield...
If you need the money, don't take the job Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're...
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Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
A Beautiful Site
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
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In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of...
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My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with the SSO popups in this, namely that they just don't work at all, presumably because Electron blocks...
Eric Bailey
thoughtbot.com, dark mode, and other user preferences thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is...
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over a year ago
thoughtbot.com and Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, thoughtbot’s blog. Dark mode is all the rage in web design right now. It’s a toggle in your operating system settings that allows you to update your operating system from traditional lighter colors to a darker...
Nelson's Weblog
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024) The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear...
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The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent display of fascism. (Don’t call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be chaotic and disruptive to many...
Ognjen Regoje •...
The boy who cried risk On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and...
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On a recent project, I worked with a principal engineer. He’s a very prolific contributor and involved in several projects. Most of his contributions are related to risk management. That made me think about the other senior-most engineers and what they work on, leading me to...
Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
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In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
Alex Meub
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
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Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
David Heinemeier...
Waiting on red Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little...
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Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little red man to turn green before crossing an empty intersection, in the rain, even at night. Nobody is coming! Why don't you just cross?! It seems silly, but the underlying philosophy is...
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
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The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
Joel Gascoigne
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
Irrational...
Career advice in 2025. Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for...
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3 months ago
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs can’t...
Contraption Co.
Why Ruby on Rails still matters An old tool endures in a Next.js world
4 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build your SaaS with freelancers? In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools...
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In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools and resources like no-code platforms, […] The post How to build your SaaS with freelancers? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
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There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
macwright.com
Recently 2024 Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be...
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Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule! Running This was my biggest year for running on...
Yale e360
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
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This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
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Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
David Crawshaw
2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
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"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
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This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Tinloof - Blog
How to build cron jobs with Netlify functions We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's...
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We leveraged Netlify Scheduled Functions to automate the task of fetching jobs from Heavybit's portfolio companies into their Jobs page.
Ink & Switch
Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
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Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
TokyoDev
How to create your own company in Japan Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk...
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Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
Irrational...
How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018) While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to...
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While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to make the acquisition, the integration that follows afterwards can be even more complex. There are few irreversible trapdoor decisions in engineering, but decisions made early in an...
Blog of Simple...
The Criteo case: a big deal for Big Tech
a year ago
alexwlchan
A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
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I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started. I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to...
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Robin in “Vibe driven development” (which I took notes): the only way to build a great product is to use it every day, to stare at it, to hold it in your hands to feel its lumps. The data and customers will lie to you but the product never will. Oof. That lands with me. As a...
David Crawshaw
2015-08-07 "The sinkhole attack is is used to drop a rootkit into SMRAM. Rootkit now invisible to the OS, ring...
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"The sinkhole attack is is used to drop a rootkit into SMRAM. Rootkit now invisible to the OS, ring 0, hypervisor, AV, and everything else." "A forgotten patch to fix a forgotten problem on a tiny number of legacy systems 20 years ago… That opens up an incredible vulnerability on...
Maggie Appleton
Neologisms A collection of interesting words that have recently been coined
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Styling Empty Table Cells Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you’re bound to come...
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Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you’re bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as “blank” table cells, which isn’t always the intended outcome. Let’s take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
bunnie's blog
IRIS (Infra-Red, in situ) Project Updates A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a...
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A goal of mine is to give everyday people tangible reasons to trust their hardware. Betrusted is a multi-year project of mine to deliver a full-stack verifiable “from logic gates to Rust crates” supply chain for security-critical applications such as password managers. At this...
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
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I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
macwright.com
The module pattern really isn't needed anymore by I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available...
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I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available in JavaScript. I was kind of skeptical of class syntax when it came out, but now there really isn’t any reason to use any other kind of “class” style than the ES6 syntax. The...
Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
a year ago
alexwlchan
Mountaintop moments Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went. I met new people, hung out...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went. I met new people, hung out with some Internet friends in-person, and saw some great theatre. It was fun, but also exhausting. By the final day, I was worn out and ready to sleep in my own bed – but now I’m...
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples) Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
over a year ago
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Antoine Mayerowitz
Mario meets Pareto
a year ago
alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
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I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
Epic Web Dev
The True Purpose of Testing (article) Discover the true essence of automated testing and the difference between an implementation and...
a year ago
Stephen Wolfram...
LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram...
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The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—both available immediately on desktop and cloud. It’s only been 196 days since we released Version 13.2, but there’s a lot that’s new, not least a whole...
The Codist
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
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For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
alexwlchan
The best way to tell a website your age There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
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There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online. Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
alexwlchan
Tag your infrastructure-as-code resources with a link to their definitions The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create...
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The aspiration of infrastructure-as-code tools is that you use them to manage everything. You create all your resources by writing a file that defines them, and any time you change something, you update the definition in that file. It’s a nice idea, but easier said than...
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...
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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...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Late October 2024: Inkling LIVE Presentation A few notes about the presentation, and a link to the video
8 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day! 29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
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a year ago
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
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Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
Blog of Simple...
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
A decade of code A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
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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.
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
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a year ago
IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
Julia Evans
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I...
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A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier. Here’s the video, as well as the slides and a transcript of (roughly) what I said in the talk. the...
Steve Klabnik
Community Versions for Rust
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
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Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
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The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
macwright.com
Recently I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon...
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I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
Blog of Simple...
Direct Marketing under GDPR
a year ago
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
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It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Patrick Kayongo
Use Local Technology Services On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the...
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over a year ago
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the Sekunjalo Group of Companies should remain open after closure by some banks, and imminent closure by others. The reason the various banks were closing the accounts of Sekunjalo was...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
Yale e360
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
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over a year ago
Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
Lennart Koopmann
I Left my previous job to Work on nzyme Full Time Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that I left my previous position to work on nzyme...
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Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that I left my previous position to work on nzyme full-time. Working as founder and CTO for almost ten years and helping the company grow to more than 125 full-time employees, I have learned a lot that I can now put to work again.
macwright.com
The one about AI Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big...
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Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big thing, crypto, wasn’t. I don’t think it’ll become generalized AI - I think the AI winter cycle is the base case and human-like intelligence is qualitatively different than LLM, no...
somenice
The Micro One-Armed Bandit Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython...
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Over the holidays I came up with an idea to create a micro slot machine coded in #CircuitPython using the Adafruit 5×5 NeoBFF Led Matrix. A micro switch, or limit switch is used to ‘pull’ the slot machine arm. A Piezo buzzer bleeps and bloops familiar tones and may signal a win....
PostHog's RSS Feed
Raising money is less stressful than bootstrapping Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are lots of myths around what it's like run a business…
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition) I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the...
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I have previously written about Unicorn Market Cap and Industry towns in 2019 and 2020. Over the last 8 months the number of tech startups worth $1B or more ("unicorns") has grown by 43% from 487 Unicorns to 701. This is almost double the 361 unicorns in June 2019
ByteofDev
When you should and shouldn't use React While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over...
over a year ago
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While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over when to use React and when not to.
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...
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a year ago
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...
The Pragmatic...
Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days It is now day five that Italian bank Sella has its apps and internetbank down, after a weekend...
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It is now day five that Italian bank Sella has its apps and internetbank down, after a weekend systems update went south. The problem seems to be database-related: “something, something Oracle.”
Eric Bailey
An introduction to macOS Head Pointer
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David Heinemeier...
The New York Times gives liberals The Danish Permission to pivot on mass immigration One of the key roles The New York Times plays in American society is as guardians of the liberal...
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One of the key roles The New York Times plays in American society is as guardians of the liberal Overton window. Its editorial line sets the terms for what's permissible to discuss in polite circles on the center left. Whether it's covid mask efficiency, trans kids, or, now, mass...
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
a year ago
Neil Panchal
Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
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over a year ago
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
A Beautiful Site
How to use the PHP ternary operator When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to...
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over a year ago
When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to simplify assignments based on a condition. If you're not sure what the ternary operator is or how it works, you're missing out on a really cool piece of programming...
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
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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over a year ago
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...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
Eric Bailey
Insulin dump My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
The Pragmatic...
The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and it will Hurt Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon have all dramatically slowed or frozen hiring. How will this impact the rest of the tech industry?
Epic Web Dev
Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
a year ago
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Josh Comeau's blog
You Don’t Need a UI Framework As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
blag
Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back “We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
a year ago
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a year ago
“We was robbed…” Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the nine unmonetized glances. An...
Marc Astbury
Mini Programs v.s. Native Apps After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of mini-programs. Every restaurant has a menu mini-program sitting on top of WeChat or Meituan. Hello Ride the bike-sharing startup is a mini program on top of Alipay. Here is a diagram...
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement. Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools, which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time: Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn Instrumenting metrics...
swyx's site RSS Feed
I'm Writing A Book! I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Daniel Miessler
Welcome to Unsupervised Learning Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
TokyoDev
Calculating your growth ceiling When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you have a business where customers subscribe to a monthly plan, and you have new customers signing up every month, it feels like your revenue will keep growing forever. However, as customers will also cancel their subscriptions (churn), eventually your growth will...
Steve Klabnik
A few notes on Foucault
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Ouroboros
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
Steve Klabnik
How Does BlueSky Work?
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Learn Stuff Quickly As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
David Heinemeier...
You can own more than one type of computer! I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they...
a year ago
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a year ago
I probably wouldn't have done a deep dive on Apple alternatives without the announcement that they were killing progressive web apps (PWAs) on the iPhone in the EU. Most people don't switch operating systems willy-nilly, and for good reason: They're different! And different is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Adverse Status Updates and Trust I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a quick comment on.
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
a year ago
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a year ago
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Ductility in Software I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a physics/engineering setting when talking about materials. Here’s an answer on Quora to: “What is ductile?” Ductility is the ability of a material to be permanently deformed without...
Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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...
Maggie Appleton
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
David Hume — Why we change our mind How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds. Even scientists keep revising their perspectives. Why is it so difficult...
davidyat.es
Game: Causality Couriers
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reinforcement Learning: Game Theory RL with multiple actors
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Collapsing Layers As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension. function fileExt(path) { return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1); }
TokyoDev
A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take...
Joel Gascoigne
How we&#x27;re trying to stay innovative as a 3.5 year old startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I think I’ve just about got to that point with Buffer where sometimes when I stop to reflect on things I think “wow, we’ve actually been doing this for a while now”. It’s about 3.5 years
David Heinemeier...
Singularity & Serenity The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The singularity is the point where artificial intelligence goes parabolic, surpassing humans writ large, and leads to rapid, unpredictable change. The intellectual seed of this concept was planted back in the '50s by early computer pioneer John von Neumann. So it’s been here...
bt RSS Feed
Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I’m keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag’s Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
James Vaughan's blog
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
over a year ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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…
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How useRef turned out to be useMemo's father It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from having to see an arrow chain. As the docs go: useCallback((e) => onChange(id, e.target.value), [onChange, id]); // is equivalent to useMemo(() => (e) => onChange(id,...
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
Alice GG
Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
Lennart Koopmann
Documentation Belongs in Engineering Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Implementing Netlify’s Image CDNz tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a...
a year ago
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a year ago
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a pretty drastic decrease in overall bandwidth. Here are the numbers: Page Requests Old New Difference Home 60 1.3MB 293kB ▼ 78% (1.01MB) Colors 84 1.4MB 371kB ▼ 74%...
Acko.net
The Bouquet Residence Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often, and in various ways. It's meant to imply aimless, angry venting. But often it means: Naming problems without proposing solutions, this makes me feel confused. Naming problems and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 01 · Welcome to the Keyhive An introduction to the Keyhive project
10 months ago
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics for Crypto Companies
10 months ago
The Changelog
Using git-annex for Data Archiving In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing up and archiving, and also said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. This post evaluates git-annex. The next will look at dar, and then I’ll make a comparison post. What is git-annex?...
Josh Comeau's blog
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
A Smart Bear
If you build it, they won't come, unless… A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
Eric Bailey
Dot website I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to my RSS feed (and thank you if you do!), the new URL is: https://ericwbailey.website/feed/feed.xml Before this website was .design it was a .com. I’m not a company, and my...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prompting the Wrong Question So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?” The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys… It gives...
bt RSS Feed
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
a year ago
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a year ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you’re wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
Yale e360
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line. This happens to me as much as...
Renegade Otter
Your database skills are not ‘good to have’ A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search...
a year ago
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a year ago
A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was one of those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
over a year ago
The Codist
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
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6 months ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
HTMHell
Swallowing camels by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Ida Franceen I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses… Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
A Smart Bear
How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with downsides, and using an appropriate decision framework.
Eric Bailey
It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
samwho.dev
Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW). In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me. If you played a...
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
Grant Slatton
Technocapital An essay on post-AI economics
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Running Docker without Docker Desktop Docker is great. Docker Desktop sucks. Here's my fix.
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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over a year ago
![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...
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Joining Ought A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
over a year ago
Tinker, Tamper,...
Docker Deployment Best Practices Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Given: There’s a CI system that automatically builds docker images from your VCS (e.g. git), we use self-hosted gitlab.Goal: Both initial and subsequent automated deployments to different environments (staging and production). Rejected ApproachesMost existing blog articles and...
Steve Klabnik
Rails 4.0.0-beta1 to Rails 4.0.0-rc1
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
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Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
Maggie Appleton
ChatGPT Would be a Decent Policy Advisor Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice by Chris Stokel-Walker for the...
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How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario
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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...
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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,...
macwright.com
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s...
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I am, relative to many, a sort of React apologist. Even though I’ve written at length about how it’s not good for every problem, I think React is a good solution to many problems. I think the React team has good intentions. Even though React is not a solution to everything, it a...
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
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Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is...
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When you’re a tech startup, one of the first things you’ll want to do is make sure your business is […] The post How to protect my startup from bots or hacks? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
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over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
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A Smart Bear
The "Opposite Test" Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft...
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over a year ago
Elevate your product marketing: Use the Opposite Test to avoid generic bullet points and craft compelling, unique features.
Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
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a year ago
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
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Happy new year everyone! I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
over a year ago
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power. A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
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A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to polynomials and splines This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of...
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This is a brief introduction into polynomials. From how to make a polynomial run through your set of points to how to make it into a spline.
David Heinemeier...
Children of You The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low...
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The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction. In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to...
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives...
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Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
Alex MacCaw
Predictions of the future A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions,...
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A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions, medical advances, AI? How will humanity tackle its largest problems? I guess we shall just have to wait and see (or get busy inventing it!). I've jotted down some of
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.
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What drives Optimal Overhead? The biggest unanswered question in the study of systems.
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Computer Things
Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds? Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday...
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Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not close to done. So now it'll be a blog post sometime later this month. I also just released a new version of...
Irrational...
Our own agents with their own tools. Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading...
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Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of...
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Feedback Ladders A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
over a year ago
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
David Heinemeier...
Design for the web without Figma By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at...
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over a year ago
By all accounts, Figma has been an amazing tool for designers. We've used it extensively at 37signals, and I'm sure most every other software shop has too. Adobe didn't pay $20 billion for nothing. But we don't do the bulk of our design work with or in Figma when developing...
Liz Denys
Shirred eggs Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with...
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over a year ago
Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with mathematical proofs, some of the most elegant foods you can prepare in a ramekin are the simplest. Enter the shirred egg. Don't be intimidated by the word "shirred"; it's just the...
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
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over a year ago
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
Tinker, Tamper,...
An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment...
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We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
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10 months ago
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
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When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python We are due for our next live session.
8 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Heap Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two...
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Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Heap is a product analytics tool designed…
bt RSS Feed
Browser History Sucks Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
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Browser History Sucks 2019-04-20 Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not. Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn’t changed in years....
Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
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Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control...
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over a year ago
Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control structures Chapter 5: Arrays Chapter 6: Functions Chapter 7: Structs Chapter 8: Classes and Objects Chapter 9: Methods Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Remains of the Day
The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks: COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take such a huge cut.   If you needed to argue, “Well, they need the cut because they...
Eric Bailey
Myth: ARIA Has Perfect Support
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Spatial Web Browsing Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Singapore H1B1 Tips > Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on /r/sg](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7nflav/h1b1_visa_ama/) about 1yr ago. Please also read this blogpost from /u/omakaselife!...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note March 29, 2023: ink track update / thoughts on research direction We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We want a digital notebook that combines the best of hand-drawn sketching and note-taking with the power of the dynamic computing medium.
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
bt RSS Feed
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
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over a year ago
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door… I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
Joel Gascoigne
The next step in Buffer’s social media journey Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets. So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
swyx's site RSS Feed
The World's Greatest Netlify Demo 2019 _Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify...
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over a year ago
_Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/10/07/complete-intro-to-netlify-in-3.5-hours/) and [the FreeCodeCamp...
Grant Slatton
Sports vs Games An aesthetic distinction
9 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Your startup is not a platform
over a year ago
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
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5 months ago
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
macwright.com
Replay.web is cool I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed...
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a year ago
I’ve been trying to preserve as much of Placemark now that it’s open-source. This has been a mixed experience: some products were really easy to move away from, like Northwest and Earth Class Mail. Webflow was harder to quit. But replay.web came to the rescue, thanks to Henry...
HTMHell
Landmarks and where to put them Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're...
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over a year ago
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're important for SEO, make your pages more readable and, of course, also help people that use assistive technologies navigate through your page. Somewhat less known are landmark...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
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over a year ago
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference organised by Altinity. It was a fantastic opportunity to…
David Crawshaw
Limits of Superintelligence research.google.com/pubs/pub40565.html
over a year ago
dthompson
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm...
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over a year ago
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been Guile. It comes with support for OOP via GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
MMapped blog
ckBTC internals: event log
over a year ago
dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
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The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
David Heinemeier...
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...
Making software...
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
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over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
alexwlchan
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
Miguel Carranza
Effective code review Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
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...
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over a year ago
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...
The Changelog
O, Sunlight! “O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“O, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” – Roman Payne There is much beauty in this world, much hope, much life. All we need to do is pause, breathe, and take a moment to see it. It might be as simple as the gift of sunlight. I hope you all have … Continue...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness "Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
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a year ago
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
Irrational...
Steps to build an engineering strategy. Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense with ideas, these can be hard to parse, and are a major reason why most engineers will claim their company doesn’t have a clear strategy even though my experience is that all...
bunnie's blog
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner 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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This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
Ink & Switch
05 · Syncing Keyhive How we sync Keyhive and Automerge
3 months ago
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
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“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
Maggie Appleton
Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
Posts on Nikita...
This site has buttons! This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
Eric Bailey
Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
9 months ago
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
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a month ago
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
Computer Things
New Blog Post: "A Perplexing Javascript Parsing Puzzle" I know I said we'd be back to normal newsletters this week and in fact had 80% of one already...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I know I said we'd be back to normal newsletters this week and in fact had 80% of one already written. Then I unearthed something that was better left buried. Blog post here, Patreon notes here (Mostly an explanation of how I found this horror in the first place). Next week I'll...
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start with quick-and-dirty...
a year ago
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a year ago
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called “Shameless Green”.
Blog of Simple...
Google pulls Uno Reverse card: Rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies
11 months ago
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves" [https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
alexwlchan
A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
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In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
over a year ago
Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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3 weeks ago
Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
Yale e360
Why Rust's learning curve seems harsh, and ideas to reduce it I've been thinking about the learning curve for Rust lately, and why it feels so hard to learn. I...
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I've been thinking about the learning curve for Rust lately, and why it feels so hard to learn. I think the reason is because the complexity is all front-loaded, and the resources generally don't actively reduce that front-loading1. There are two well-trod paths for learning...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my...
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THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. – Erohead, birther of Beepy The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat printer The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built for nerds. From the first announcement, Beepy’s creator—SQFMI—was candid about the device’s lack of...
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 2: What do you need to invent? I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the...
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I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of lessons learned so...
Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
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over a year ago
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here: I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type. Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
Chris Nicholas
Which blend mode? This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for...
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over a year ago
This guide explains the basics behind each blend mode, and offers a number of practical examples for use in the wild.
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (tip)
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Looping Through Jekyll Collections Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
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Looping Through Jekyll Collections 2022-08-12 I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife’s personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn’t touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
Yale e360
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
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over a year ago
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
Renegade Otter
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
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.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Traction vs Trust Equation of Cofounder Dating One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the...
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over a year ago
One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the cofounder group. I thought I would jot down some notes from my own experience + that of friends in similar situations.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m a fan of what Ink & Switch is doing in regards to local-first web development. I’ve got a few harebrained ideas myself I want to build. And I’ve written notes from a talk by Peter before. Which is all a preface for this set of notes from another talk by Peter. Here’s the talk...
A Beautiful Site
Valid Names for CSS Parts CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
Eric Bailey
The case for null in design systems
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
To hell with forever Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point...
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3 months ago
Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point of the average wealthy male life expectancy. Another scoop of life as big as the one I've already been served seems more than enough, thank you very much. Does that strike you as...
Eric Bailey
Truths about digital accessibility Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
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over a year ago
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional): Each screen reader behaves differently This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022 I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
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over a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records. I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that. Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 005: Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
11 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
a year ago
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a year ago
When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
a year ago
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a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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a year ago
Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
Eric Bailey
Lighthouse Lighthouse is an open source auditing tool made by Google to help developers understand how well...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lighthouse is an open source auditing tool made by Google to help developers understand how well their site is doing in terms of four metrics: Performance, Best Practices, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Accessibility. If you’re feeling adventurous, it will also measure...
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 3) A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog...
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over a year ago
A while ago I published this article about building an accessible and reusable modal/dialog component in React. The component achieves the following requirements: A reusable component API: we should be able to easily use our accessible modal anywhere and populate it with...
Founder's blog
Will AI kill B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Stephen Wolfram...
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated… The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a...
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over a year ago
The Shock of ChatGPT Just a few months ago writing an original essay seemed like something only a human could do. But then ChatGPT burst onto the scene. And suddenly we realized that an AI could write a passable human-like essay. So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this...
bt RSS Feed
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs and Naming Things In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard problems in computer science: 1) cache invalidation and 2) naming things. Then he unapologetically says the “naming things” problem is solved with LLMs. Here’s Simon: [When asking...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introduction to self-service analytics There are lots of ways to do analytics. You can do SQL . You can do it in the cloud. You can not do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are lots of ways to do analytics. You can do SQL . You can do it in the cloud. You can not do it at all and hire an analytics agency or…
The History of the...
Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist...
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5 months ago
The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter? The post Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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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over a year ago
(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...
Yale e360
RC Week 6: Halfway done, wrote a parser! I'm halfway done with my RC batch now. Time feels like it has sped up. The feeling that my time at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm halfway done with my RC batch now. Time feels like it has sped up. The feeling that my time at RC is infinite is gone. This was compounded by seeing folks from the Fall 1 batch conclude their batches yesterday. We'll get a new boost from the Winter 1 batch joining on Monday,...
Confessions of a...
Recording: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance Watch now | We concluded the latest live session yesterday.
4 months ago
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
Model facts, not your problem domain
over a year ago
dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been...
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I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly. Let's...
Grant Slatton
Internet Fiction Collection of amateur stories — mainly sci-fi — that I like
11 months ago
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book. The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
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over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
Epic Web Dev
Automatic Browser Request Cancellation (tip) Discover how automatic browser request cancellation works and its implications for web development.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Early Stage Company Offsites this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
9 months ago
Founder's blog
How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly monitoring and investigating bottlenecks for our SaaS helpdesk webapp is my favorite thing ever. And I'm proud to say that with thousands of clients, even some really big ones, our app's...