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React server components in Reason & OCaml
1st Jan 2024
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React server components in Reason & OCaml

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
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Rails has two default stacks
14th Jan 2013
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Rails has two default stacks

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2013
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Announcing What Can’t I Press? I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through...
15th Jun 2026
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Announcing What Can’t I Press?

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2026
I made an app! What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to: Read, search, and filter through screen reader keyboard shortcuts. Scan open apps and add their keyboard shortcuts to the collection. Copy a keyboard shortcut to your clipboard, with modifier keys to format the...
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Checking for True or False How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways: One "bad" way: if variable ==...
1st Oct 2020
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Checking for True or False

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2020
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways: One "bad" way: if variable == True: Another "bad" way: if variable is True: And the good way, recommended even in the Programming Recommendations of PEP8: if variable: The "bad" ways are not only frowned upon...
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
18th Apr 2022
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Apr 2022
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users' operating...
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Recently If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight...
1st Jun 2024
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
If you’re reading this on macwright.com, you might have noticed that the website got a very slight upgrade this month. I’ve been publishing a lot of content in the /micro/ section, and I update my /reading/ list once or twice a month when I finish books, but these proper...
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
30th Jun 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jun 2023
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
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Countercheck unit tests Test-driven development (TDD) is a good technique for making sure that our code matches the...
17th Oct 2021
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Countercheck unit tests

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2021
Test-driven development (TDD) is a good technique for making sure that our code matches the requirements. With frontend unit tests, it is often necessary to countercheck our requirements. In this post I will use React and testing-library, but the underlying problem can be applied...
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a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
9th Sep 2024
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a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2024
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
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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...
25th Jun 2021
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Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2021
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...
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IC internals: XNet protocol
1st Jul 2022
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IC internals: XNet protocol

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2022
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different...
1st Dec 2025
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different organizational systems. Sometimes I have to change them due to actual life circumstances changing; other times, due to the old one just wearing off[1]. Well, my life circumstances...
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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...
1st Aug 2021
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West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2021
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...
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
14th Oct 2014
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2014
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
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Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names
24th Jun 2022
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Voice Control Usability Considerations For Partially Visually Hidden Link Names

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jun 2022
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024 The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
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Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
25th Mar 2019
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Trade offs in designing versatile log format

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2019
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
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🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
6th Aug 2022
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🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2022
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […] The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Building a UI Framework Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI...
25th Jul 2025
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Building a UI Framework

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jul 2025
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI frameworks, based on my experiences of the past 25-30 years. The work was originally commissioned by a customer for their use, but it seems like it might be of wider interest so I've decided...
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What I'm up to - July 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jul 2026
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What I'm up to - July 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in June I left Chroma, and I start a new role in August. In this liminal time, I am spending a couple of weeks in Japan and practicing photography.
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2024
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. ...
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
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Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
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Moving to Node.js

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
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More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
4th Jan 2021
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More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2021
Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
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React - The Missing Parts Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a...
4th Feb 2022
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React - The Missing Parts

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2022
Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes. In my case, I have a React-clone, Live, which includes all the familiar basics: props, state and...
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
18th Mar 2010
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2010
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
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Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await) JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
30th Aug 2020
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Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await)

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Aug 2020
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
29th Sep 2021
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僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2021
This article is also available [in...
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Berkeley Mono February Update Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
6th Feb 2022
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Berkeley Mono February Update

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2022
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated. Here is a quick update on the progress: Website - Berkeleygraphics.com It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
4th Aug 2025
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2025
Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
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How to design an accessible carousel In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
21st Apr 2024
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How to design an accessible carousel

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Apr 2024
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. Outcome Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian → I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
4th Nov 2022
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian →

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
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First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today’s TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
3rd May 2019
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First Letter Pseudo Element

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2019
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today’s TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it’s still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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Docember
1st Dec 2015
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Docember

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2015
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Managing your drafts through the API Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
1st Jul 2019
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Managing your drafts through the API

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2019
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. Highlights for this release are: New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
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Account History Finding moments from before
17th Mar 2026
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Account History

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Mar 2026
Finding moments from before
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Anchoring Software to Major Versions In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see...
24th May 2024
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Anchoring Software to Major Versions

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2024
In a SemVer world, major releases are those which contain incompatible API changes. We often see software projects anchor themselves to major versions for long periods of time, usually with the promise of stability. We all know how frustrating it is to upgrade a package and run...
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
16th Jan 2021
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2021
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
7th Jan 2024
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2024
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
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A website for everyone In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. The...
18th Aug 2026
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A website for everyone

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2026
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. The post A website for everyone appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical —...
4th Sep 2025
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Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2025
Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical — Meta’s text editing framework — and it brings a much better text editing experience to Rails: Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should be. Markdown support:...
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No No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website...
6th Jan 2016
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No

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2016
No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website builtwithbootstrap.com. The post would need to contain a minimum of 2 paragraphs relating to online casinos and a link to one of our client’s websites. We can pay directly into your paypal account...
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A 30 minute introduction to Rust
11th Jan 2014
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A 30 minute introduction to Rust

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2014
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Process Debt I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
10th Dec 2023
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Process Debt

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Dec 2023
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […] The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
31st Dec 2021
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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2021
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
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Adventures in latent space
19th Oct 2023
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Adventures in latent space

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Oct 2023
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Building a 3D Printer Enclosure Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
1st Jun 2021
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Building a 3D Printer Enclosure

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2021
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
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No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with the field. We will look at 4 demos:...
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Stroustrup's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
11th Dec 2024
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Stroustrup's Rule

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2024
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrup's Rule I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
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The Federation Fallacy Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air:...
3rd Mar 2019
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The Federation Fallacy

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2019
Throughout the free software community, an unbridled aura of justified mistrust fills the air: mistrust of large corporations, mistrust of governments, and of course, mistrust of proprietary software. Each mistrust is connected by a critical thread: centralisation. Thus,...
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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...
8th Dec 2024
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Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2024
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...
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Proxmox Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets...
18th Jan 2024
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Proxmox

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2024
Proxmox is good software for a home datacenter. It’s an OS you install on server hardware that lets you easily run multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. It also manages disk storage and has some more complex support for high availability in a cluster, distributed storage...
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Using personas in the Product Design Sprint
4th Mar 2020
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Using personas in the Product Design Sprint

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2020
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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
28th Feb 2022
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Feb 2022
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
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The False Narrative Around Theranos One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying...
26th Sep 2021
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The False Narrative Around Theranos

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26th Sep 2021
One of the interesting aspects of the Theranos trial is the degree to which some folks are buying into part of the defense's narrative that "Theranos was just acting like every Silicon Valley startup". This is of course blatantly false, but it is being adopted as some form of...
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December 2024
1st Dec 2024
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December 2024

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2024
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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...
13th Dec 2022
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Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2022
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...
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Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
7th Jul 2025
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Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2025
After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...
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What I'm up to - April 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
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What I'm up to - April 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
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Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?” I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has...
16th Apr 2021
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Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?”

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2021
I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has directly contributed to me finally deciding to leave a company with a toxic management culture. I’ll also be leaving many great IC friends that will have lost a strong voice. My...
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
11th Aug 2022
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2022
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A Look at ProgressQuest: The Original Idle Game Progress Quest is generally considered the original idle game. It came out in 2002 as a parody of...
17th Mar 2026
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A Look at ProgressQuest: The Original Idle Game

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Mar 2026
Progress Quest is generally considered the original idle game. It came out in 2002 as a parody of EverQuest and the emerging MMORPG boom. “Playing” it consists of creating a character, clicking “Sold!”, and then watching progress bars fill forever. There’s no interaction, no real...
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Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
2nd Jun 2023
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Things nobody taught me about money

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2023
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
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Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
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Being a minor AI public figure

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHnNnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
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Workshopping Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
4th Mar 2021
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Workshopping

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4th Mar 2021
Produce Consistency, Publish Quality by buffering.
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a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
9th May 2025
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2025
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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Go: Functional options are slow The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
23rd May 2022
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Go: Functional options are slow

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd May 2022
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
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Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust) This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in...
20th Jul 2025
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Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust)

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2025
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in Rust. I will explore how to get familiar with Turso’s codebase, tooling and tests
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A simple adversarial model for dual contouring
23rd Apr 2023
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A simple adversarial model for dual contouring

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Apr 2023
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
6th Apr 2012
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2012
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
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Yes, I will have coffee with you On meeting up in meatspace
14th Apr 2025
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Yes, I will have coffee with you

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2025
On meeting up in meatspace
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An Intriguing Triangle
18th Aug 2020
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An Intriguing Triangle

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2020
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Vibe Coding Tools are a BattleMech Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used...
7th Apr 2026
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Vibe Coding Tools are a BattleMech

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2026
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used this analogy recently and I love it. It perfectly sums up the feeling of vibe coding for me. I can move faster, jump higher and it feels like a there is a whole new world of...
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Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
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Three Jobs of Containers

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1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
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Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
11th Dec 2023
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Observer Theory

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
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Who gets to do strategy?

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
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An update on Kagi Translate Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it...
5th Jun 2026
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An update on Kagi Translate

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2026
Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it shows as offline. This is because we have temporarily turned off free access while we work through the cost of running Translate.
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer “Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
1st Oct 2024
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Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
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We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current...
6th Aug 2025
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We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2025
Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa. So...
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Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
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Email explained from first principles

from Explained from First Principles [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2021
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How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
3rd Dec 2023
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How I Take and Publish Notes

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2023
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer...
17th Dec 2023
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki

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17th Dec 2023
Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer generated with barf but is instead built on top of ikiwiki. The old RSS feed (btxx.org/atom.xml) still exists but will no longer receive updates. The new feed can be found on the...
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Questionable Advice: “After Being A Manager, Can I Be Happy As A Cog?” One of my stretch goals for 2019 was to start writing an advice column.  I get a lot of questions...
23rd Nov 2019
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Questionable Advice: “After Being A Manager, Can I Be Happy As A Cog?”

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Nov 2019
One of my stretch goals for 2019 was to start writing an advice column.  I get a lot of questions about everything under the sun: observability, databases, career advice, management problems, what the best stack is for a startup, how to hire and interview, etc.  And while I enjoy...
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Rational interpolation Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
5th Mar 2024
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Rational interpolation

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2024
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
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A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
31st Jan 2024
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A return to company core mission & values

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2024
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
1st Feb 2019
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2019
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
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It's Free Real Estate
25th Mar 2024
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It's Free Real Estate

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2024
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Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
11th Dec 2018
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Capstone: A tablet for thinking

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2018
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
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I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
17th Sep 2024
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I am tired of AI

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
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Committing to creativity The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
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Committing to creativity

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
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Questionable Advice: Is there a path back from CTO to engineer? I received this question in the comments section of my piece on The Twin Anxieties of the...
29th Jul 2022
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Questionable Advice: Is there a path back from CTO to engineer?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jul 2022
I received this question in the comments section of my piece on The Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum, and figured I might as well answer it. It definitely isn’t a question I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about or anything. 🥰 As a former CTO coming off a...
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭 .title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here,...
1st Jan 2024
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Treats from git's contrib tools🍭

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones Junio C Hamano, git/contrib/README Git bundles handy tools along with its source repo. They live in a directory named contrib—short for contributed...
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Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate...
6th Feb 2018
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Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2018
I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate entities. At best it’s a disingenuous marketing campaign, usually it’s more like a red blaring light shining on their degenerate hypocrisies and weakest aspirations. But we’ve been doing a...
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
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Please Steal My Meshing Algorithm Idea
3rd Jul 2026
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Please Steal My Meshing Algorithm Idea

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2026
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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
12th Jan 2025
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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jan 2025
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
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Stuff to do when you’re not well Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was...
13th Nov 2017
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Stuff to do when you’re not well

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Nov 2017
Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was sick with a cold. I was basically indoors for 5 straight days (one of those actually in bed all day). I was also unable to sleep for a couple of nights. So I had a lot of extra...
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A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”,...
8th Feb 2024
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A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2024
A tale of two rewrites Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how Mosaic/Netscape came to be, Jamie described the burnout rodeo that was...
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How Winamp2-js loads native skins in your browser How we get from a binary Winamp skin file to seeing Winamp2-js take on the look of your favorite...
9th Mar 2015
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How Winamp2-js loads native skins in your browser

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2015
How we get from a binary Winamp skin file to seeing Winamp2-js take on the look of your favorite skin, all within the limitations of your browser.
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy When even "free" is too expensive.
4th May 2025
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2025
When even "free" is too expensive.
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Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
9th Jul 2025
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Single-Use Disposable Applications

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2025
As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.
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A geek feminism anecdote Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
19th Dec 2013
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A geek feminism anecdote

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Dec 2013
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future. Some friends and I randomly...
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how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant,...
23rd Oct 2025
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how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Oct 2025
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant, obtuse, bloated beast only used by those who have no other choice because some enterprise corporate believed the hype train of the 90s. But is that all still true today?
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Make Beautiful Gradients Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
11th Jan 2022
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Make Beautiful Gradients

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2022
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
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Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly...
7th Oct 2025
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Freedom, Risk, and Protection: What Japan’s Freelance Act Really Means for Tech Workers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2025
Japan’s freelance IT market is worth over 100 billion yen annually, with projected demand up nearly 30% year-on-year and a projected shortfall of 600,000 tech workers by 2030. That demand creates opportunity, but it could also leave more people stuck in shaky employment...
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Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive... The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work?...
3rd May 2024
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Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2024
The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological...
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
1st Sep 2023
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2023
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article) What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
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Ten Platform Commandments On Monday I gave a talk at DOES18 called “All the World’s a Platform”, where I talked about a bunch...
24th Oct 2018
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Ten Platform Commandments

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2018
On Monday I gave a talk at DOES18 called “All the World’s a Platform”, where I talked about a bunch of the lessons learned by using and abusing and running and building platforms at scale. I promised to do a blog post with the takeaways, so here they are. Platform Commandment #1:...
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Asus debian jessie install Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI Download Non-free...
8th Jun 2015
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Asus debian jessie install

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2015
Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI Download Non-free firmware Linux Questions Answer firmware-iwlwifi download Extract firmware from deb ar xv firmware-iwlwifi.deb tar xvf data.tar.xz Copy to ext4 formatted sd-card mkfs.ext4...
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
14th May 2014
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th May 2014
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows. Changes in this release: 2 page view for ebooks new keybindings: Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page 10x faster ebook...
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I have no idea what I am doing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a...
3rd Jul 2011
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I have no idea what I am doing

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I want to give a special thanks to my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] who listened to and discussed some of these thoughts with me before I turned them into a blog post. In the last few...
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
20th Jul 2024
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2024
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
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Building an AI toolbar for text editors I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some...
9th Jul 2024
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Building an AI toolbar for text editors

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2024
I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some details on how it was created.
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter > 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
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Compare to None How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you...
23rd Feb 2023
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Compare to None

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2023
How do we check if something is None? With the beauty of the Python language - the code that you would write is literally the same as the above question: if something is None: It reminds me of this joke: - How do you turn pseudocode into Python? - You add .py at the end of the...
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Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
3rd Jan 2021
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Crafting a support network

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2021
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
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Thinking in packages Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in...
6th Jun 2018
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Thinking in packages

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2018
Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem: “How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
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My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
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My Essential Tools for WordPress Development

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2016
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
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2015-11-16 "Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal...
16th Nov 2015
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2015-11-16

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2015
"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal methods of measurement for how 'good' a language is, so it mostly happens by default as popular systems thrive and unpopular ones wither and...
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
5th Mar 2023
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2023
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc) Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
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(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
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It’s Only When You Look Back I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in...
17th Jun 2026
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It’s Only When You Look Back

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jun 2026
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years...
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement My AI homelab named Daddy
27th Apr 2026
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
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Whistler High Note Trail Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
1st Sep 2022
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Whistler High Note Trail

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2022
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
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We’ve been waiting 20 years for this The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been...
6th Feb 2024
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We’ve been waiting 20 years for this

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2024
The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been waiting 20 years for this appeared first on The History of the Web.
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I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
6th Mar 2023
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I doubled-down on RSS

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2023
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
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is there light at the end of the tunnel Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
11th Apr 2022
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is there light at the end of the tunnel

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2022
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look at it.
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Beware the cloud of hype We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of...
4th Jun 2024
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Beware the cloud of hype

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
We don't know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web. The post Beware the cloud of hype appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Becoming American
7th Sep 2018
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Becoming American

from Seldo.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2018
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
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Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something...
27th Jan 2023
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

from Fathy Boundjadj [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2023
I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal. Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser! Drawing Read more..
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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...
28th Jun 2023
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Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jun 2023
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...
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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Using Bun.js as a bundler Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s...
17th May 2023
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Using Bun.js as a bundler

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2023
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until today haven’t had a good excuse to use it. (Edit: There’s some good conversation about this post...
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What I'm up to - October 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I...
1st Oct 2023
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What I'm up to - October 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in September I launched Booklet, a forum as an alternative to chat. It's my attempt to ma...
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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The Last Battle
26th Jul 2023
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The Last Battle

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jul 2023
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice...
5th Jan 2026
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2026
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration: accompanied by explanation: Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating...
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React.cache in server-reason-react How React.cache works in Server components
13th Feb 2026
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React.cache in server-reason-react

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2026
How React.cache works in Server components
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**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers Sign up now for new fireside chat
7th Feb 2023
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**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2023
Sign up now for new fireside chat
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Attention is all you have The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of...
a week ago
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Attention is all you have

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments. Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks. After a little while, you’ll start recognizing familiar Tetromino shapes in clouds, buildings, and everyday objects. You...
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
4th Nov 2018
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2018
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
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Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful...
1st Jun 2023
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Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2023
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools. I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
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What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
1st Aug 2023
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What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2023
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
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A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
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A float walks into a gradual type system

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2025
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production" The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
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About the Apple Captive Network Assistant Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site...
10th Apr 2017
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About the Apple Captive Network Assistant

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2017
Heads up! This post is no longer current. Check out the WBA’s Captive Network Portal Behavior site for a better resource on the Captive Network Assistant. If you’re a mac user, you likely have seen a strange popup window appear on your computer when you try to connect to the...
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What I'm up to - May 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
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What I'm up to - May 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
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How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed) Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The...
4th Feb 2020
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How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2020
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The problem many devs run into is that React Native only supports caching images on IOS out of the box.
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A love letter to Apache Echarts In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place...
14th Feb 2024
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A love letter to Apache Echarts

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Feb 2024
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them. I know this because I even wrote one. When you find a gem...
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“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
3rd Jun 2024
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“Just” One Line

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2024
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
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Introducing The Contraption Company Today I'm introducing my new business, The Contraption Company - a product studio building...
4th Nov 2022
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Introducing The Contraption Company

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
Today I'm introducing my new business, The Contraption Company - a product studio building dependable software tools for online work. Slow growth makes steady progress In the past, I've built VC-backed startups like Moonlight and Staffjoy. For these companies, we worked hard...
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What I'm up to - July 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
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What I'm up to - July 2022

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
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🔥 Battling daily procrastination 🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do?...
7th Mar 2022
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🔥 Battling daily procrastination

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2022
🔥Procrastination is a serious threat. But what keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? What […] The post 🔥 Battling daily procrastination appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
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My Stance on AI-generated Code I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
8th Jul 2022
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My Stance on AI-generated Code

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2022
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code. As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
3rd Dec 2021
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2021
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
22nd Aug 2023
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Aug 2023
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
24th Jul 2020
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RFD 1 Requests for Discussion

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2020
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
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On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
7th Aug 2017
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On Estimates, Time, and Evidence

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2017
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
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Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World' Excellent book about the history of precision machining
1st Jul 2024
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Book Review: 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World'

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2024
Excellent book about the history of precision machining
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Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
28th Mar 2020
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Image darning

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Mar 2020
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
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Prepping for the endgame of the open web Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare. The post...
7th Apr 2026
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Prepping for the endgame of the open web

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2026
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare. The post Prepping for the endgame of the open web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
4th Jun 2024
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
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I’m sorry Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
9th May 2024
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I’m sorry

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9th May 2024
Question: Answer: The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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When Random Isn't This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive...
10th Jan 2024
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When Random Isn't

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2024
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can enjoy this article, not just those who have...
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My productivity rules A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do...
8th Oct 2025
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My productivity rules

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2025
A friend asked me for some study/productivity tips, and I figured the most productive thing I can do is write a post about it. That way, it might help more people too. So here we go. Before we start, there are two things you need before any productivity advice will work: Be...
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How we built Buttondown's new docs We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
6th May 2024
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How we built Buttondown's new docs

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2024
We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
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How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them to the end - the following advice is what I strongly...
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Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
6th Oct 2024
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Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Oct 2024
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
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The Internet explained from first principles
5th Aug 2020
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The Internet explained from first principles

from Explained from First Principles [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2020
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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...
3rd Nov 2024
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Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy

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3rd Nov 2024
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...
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
25th Jan 2024
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jan 2024
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

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4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
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The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
2nd Sep 2017
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The bittersweet end of a year of independence

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2017
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
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What I'm up to - April 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Apr 2026
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What I'm up to - April 2026

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in March - Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website. - Wrote Agent experience abo...
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2016-01-01 "It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
1st Jan 2016
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2016-01-01

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2016
"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash." www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
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Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
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Using User-Select

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2019
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...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
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Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
24th Oct 2013
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Parsing URLs in JavaScript

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24th Oct 2013
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
4th Jan 2021
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2021
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
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The next iteration of my blog
12th May 2011
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The next iteration of my blog

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th May 2011
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Recruitment Agencies in Japan: How To Get Them To Work For You You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help...
7th Jun 2024
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Recruitment Agencies in Japan: How To Get Them To Work For You

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jun 2024
You may have considered using recruiters when looking for a job in Japan. This article aims to help you understand the structure of recruiting in Japan and assist you in your job search. I hope this will be beneficial, especially for those who want to work as engineers in...
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
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ioctls from Rust

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
3rd Apr 2023
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2023
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with...
19th May 2022
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2022
Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with newsletters and blogs as the ways I stay in touch. Not many people have blogs - so I built a bot to le...
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Code Reviews Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post...
14th Jan 2024
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Code Reviews

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2024
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tour of Ace: the multiplayer coding workspace
13th Apr 2026
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2026
Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tour of Ace: the multiplayer coding workspace
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