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What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
over a year ago
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
blag
Learning C
Some resources for learning C
9 months ago
Some resources for learning C
Irrational...
Poking around OpenAI.
I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs,
and decided to spend some time doing...
a year ago
I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs,
and decided to spend some time doing so. I was particularly curious
about the usecase of using embeddings to supplement user prompts
with additional, relevant data (e.g. supply the current status of their
recent...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Passwords are fine
I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication.
For a...
a year ago
I've spent too much of my professional life trying to build a better means of authentication.
For a while I was fixated on Magic Links, then I built a few prototypes of authentication using a combination of token passing and TOTP. And finally, I built a storage-less password...
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
a year ago
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
A Smart Bear
Hello, I'm 1074018628
Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never...
7 months ago
Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never have to speak to one of those pesky customers?
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Tell me about features, not benefits
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
over a year ago
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
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What if Stripe is the next Google?
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
the jsomers.net blog
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
over a year ago
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
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Working at a Startup From Series B to C
Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
over a year ago
Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build a community around your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post How to build a community around your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
a year ago
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console:
Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
Vadim Kravcenko
🏆 Promotion-based development
While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies...
over a year ago
While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled […]
The post 🏆 Promotion-based development appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
HTMHell
#3 image-buttons
Bad code
<img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)">
<img src="/images/delete.gif"...
over a year ago
Bad code
<img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)">
<img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)">
Issues and how to fix them
The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript.
A click event on a img triggers only on...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
a year ago
I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by...
a year ago
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need"
I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to
defend questionable...
a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to
defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if
you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand
what the tradeoffs are.
alexwlchan
Drawing a better bandwidth graph for Netlify
I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per...
3 months ago
I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per month.
That’s usually plenty, and I’ve only exceeded it a few times – this site is mostly text, and I only have a modest audience.
I can see how much bandwidth I’ve used in the...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
over a year ago
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial.
We have 1 goal: set up...
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
over a year ago
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project.
Install gems
Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install.
gem...
Irrational...
Playing with Streamlit and LLMs.
Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out
internal LLM labs/tools...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been chatting with a number of companies who are building out
internal LLM labs/tools for their teams to make it easy to test LLMs against
their internal usecases.
I wanted to take a couple hours to see how far I could get using
Streamlit to build out a personal LLM...
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a...
2 months ago
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...
A Beautiful Site
Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
over a year ago
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic.
Email...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Everything With AI
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot:
You can give it natural language prompts...
a year ago
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot:
You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads.
With Copilot, you’re always...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Nelson's Weblog
Restic
Restic is good backup software.
It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various
local...
10 months ago
Restic is good backup software.
It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various
local and remote options. It is well
documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very
professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it.
Note it’s a...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
9 months ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
over a year ago
Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go
Using gomarkdown/markdown library
This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
a year ago
Using gomarkdown/markdown library
This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library.
All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples
Basics first
Here’s a good...
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
a year ago
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both?
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his...
9 months ago
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his parents:
My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket. I find myself having to go over to their house and do things like switch...
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
a month ago
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming.
In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment.
Today, I will show you how to use...
A Smart Bear
Legacy
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
3 months ago
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […]
The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a...
2 months ago
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on.
Meme...
blag
PSA: SQLite does not do checksums
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
a month ago
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it.
It’s a huge...
a year ago
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it.
It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative
like Noom.
The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy,
particularly good data
sources for nutrition...
The History of the...
The Gift of Code
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
3 months ago
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript
The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Mathematical analysis explained with Python, blood, and TNT
A brief introduction to mathematical analysis with a little SymPy on the side. The page explains how...
over a year ago
A brief introduction to mathematical analysis with a little SymPy on the side. The page explains how to disassemble a function, and how to assemble it back from the derivatives.
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
a year ago
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
David Heinemeier...
There are no secrets left
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe...
11 months ago
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
Founder's blog
I'm finally dumping Visual Studio
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough.
It's buggy, slow, and...
6 months ago
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough.
It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code.
While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code,
I'm...
The Pragmatic...
How Games Typically Get Built
The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how...
a year ago
The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how games are typically built.
Steve Klabnik
An overview of macros in Rust
over a year ago
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
A Smart Bear
Who's lying?
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
over a year ago
Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Words and Buttons...
Programmer's introduction to linear equations [republished in Ukrainian]
The same as https://wordsandbuttons.online/programmers_introduction_to_linear_equations.html only in...
over a year ago
The same as https://wordsandbuttons.online/programmers_introduction_to_linear_equations.html only in Ukrainian.
Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono February Update
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
over a year ago
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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The most useful B2B SaaS product metrics
So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This...
over a year ago
So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This is not news. What, why, and how? These are the…
macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five
minutes, I have a...
a year ago
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five
minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers
for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric.
It’s a long-term project that combines my...
Darek Kay
Countercheck unit tests
Test-driven development (TDD) is a good technique for making sure that our code matches the...
over a year ago
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...
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
over a year ago
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible.
I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
Charles Chen
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
over a year ago
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
over a year ago
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them.
So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
over a year ago
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
One-time payment
Recurring payment
Free tier...
Making software...
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
Making software...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Josh Comeau's blog
The End of Front-End Development
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a...
a year ago
Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Back to Lisp
<![CDATA[Planet Python carried out my request to remove my blog from the aggregator. Now their feed...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Planet Python carried out my request to remove my blog from the aggregator. Now their feed no longer syndicates my posts about Python, which I'll no longer write much about.
Planet Python is an aggregator of blogs, podcasts, and other resources of interest to the Python...
swyx's site RSS Feed
I'm Writing A Book!
I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
over a year ago
I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp
I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
over a year ago
I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
a year ago
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1
Bad code
<h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only">
Done
</h1>
Issues...
over a year ago
Bad code
<h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only">
Done
</h1>
Issues and how to fix them
The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1.
The heading is...
Making software...
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor
2023-03-03
For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
over a year ago
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
swyx's site RSS Feed
add Whisper to your iOS Action Button
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
11 months ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
9 months ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
ntietz.com blog
You should make a new programming language
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple.
Few of us make programming...
4 months ago
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple.
Few of us make programming languages.
This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist.
Those already have people making them better.
Let's...
Joel on Software
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
over a year ago
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
over a year ago
The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details:
The built-in...
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Three of our key...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Three of our key values at Buffer
[http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose
positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter,
not...
ntietz.com blog
Rounding in Python
In software engineering, there are two principles that often come into conflict.
The first one is...
over a year ago
In software engineering, there are two principles that often come into conflict.
The first one is the principal of least surprise.
The second one is doing the right thing.
These come into conflict when the usual thing that people do is in fact the wrong thing.
A particular...
Irrational...
Physics and perception.
At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
5 months ago
At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war.
The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby.
Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
over a year ago
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...
Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although...
over a year ago
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home
after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the
Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Things I learned last year
2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers...
over a year ago
2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers across our range of products (!) 800% increase in…
TokyoDev
Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population?
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
over a year ago
As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
ntietz.com blog
PyOhio
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
over a year ago
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights:
Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
ntietz.com blog
Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals...
a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts:
Reflection on the year that's ending, and talking about goals and whatnot for next year.
They're cliche, but they're also useful.
The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other people can come along and...
David Heinemeier...
Committing to Windows
I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows...
9 months ago
I've gone around the computing world in the past eighty hours. I've been flowing freely from Windows to Linux, sampling text editors like VSCode, neovim, Helix, and Sublime, while surveying PC laptops and desktops. It's been an adventure! But it's time to stop being a tourist....
Maggie Appleton
Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if your Index Page was Smart?
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
On Life and Lisp
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full...
10 months ago
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest
M1/M2-series drivers.
Already installed? Just dnf –refresh
upgrade.
Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
swyx's site RSS Feed
OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
over a year ago
a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
blag
Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep?
My answer to a question online, why?
6 months ago
My answer to a question online, why?
Epic Web Dev
Contribute an Epic Stack Example (tip)
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
a year ago
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed?
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […]
The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Making software...
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-29
It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
over a year ago
Happily Paying For macOS Apps
2022-06-29
It's no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Posts on Nikita...
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to...
over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands.
Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
Ralph Ammer
René Descartes – How to be certain
This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes.
The post René...
over a year ago
This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes.
The post René Descartes – How to be certain appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Irrational...
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly...
11 months ago
In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly is at odds with thoroughly testing that software. One reason that teams believe this is because a fully automated deployment process implies that there’s no opportunity for manual...
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
A Smart Bear
Satisficing vs Maximizing
Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural...
a year ago
Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural perfectionist.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me.
“Web...
a year ago
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me.
“Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to “React components”. JSX had <MyComponent> and now the web had <my-component>.
But when you try building web components...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress"
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
a month ago
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
alexwlchan
A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen
I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
a year ago
I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started.
I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”:
The idea that businesses are already waging...
a year ago
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”:
The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
8 months ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
Ralph Ammer
Confucius – Why we need rituals
This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius.
The post Confucius – Why we...
over a year ago
This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius.
The post Confucius – Why we need rituals appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
ntietz.com blog
Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS
A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his...
over a year ago
A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his Ergodox many times, I took the plunge and built my own. 152 solder joints later, I have this beauty:
It took a few days to get used to it and in the process, I found a bug in layer...
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is React Suspense?
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
a year ago
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
Irrational...
How to capitalize engineering costs.
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one...
a year ago
There are many important meetings in your first ninety days as a new engineering leader, but one that’s both easy to forget and surprisingly important is your first meeting with the finance team. There’s a lot to learn from the finance team, particularly drilling into your profit...
macwright.com
CSS Roundup
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
10 months ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
Oxide Computer...
A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
a year ago
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we
continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve
discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that
can allow for...
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side
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A short while...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a
startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves"
[https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
macwright.com
I wish there was a better default for database IDs by
Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a...
11 months ago
Every database ID scheme that I’ve used has had pretty serious downsides, and I wish there was a better option.
The perfect ID would:
Be friendly to distributed systems - multiple servers should be able to generate non-overlapping IDs at the same time. Even clients should be able...
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Bouldering
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
a year ago
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
alexwlchan
My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error:
error[E0412]:...
over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error:
error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope
--> src/fs_helpers.rs:29:33
|
29 | pub fn is_ds_store(p: &Path) -> Boolean
| ^^^^^^^ not found in...
Irrational...
Extract the kernel.
As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication...
a year ago
As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a less literal executive.
I...
Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Framework DIY 13 gen AMD review ⚙️
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Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and...
11 months ago
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Framework Laptop DIY 13 AMD, 13th Generation with ethernet dongle and screwdriver
The laptop industry is a
tragedy.
Meanwhile, Framework built something
different—repairable, Linux-ready laptops that respect
users. Framework is a rare company worth...
Charles Chen
3 Tips to Help Dev Teams Build Speed
My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
over a year ago
My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
ntietz.com blog
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work.
Our most common brush with estimates is when...
a year ago
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work.
Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint.
Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it.
We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
bt RSS Feed
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
2021-06-20
Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface...
over a year ago
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS
2021-06-20
Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface design of Sony’s PS4 system OS. It’s minimal and keeps the content front and center. Even with it’s sometimes spotty performance hiccups, I’ve come to enjoy interacting with it.
One of...
David Heinemeier...
Joining the Shopify board of directors
I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
a month ago
I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy.
I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy,
and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on
computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s
Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric
design to...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the...
over a year ago
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro
over a year ago
Irrational...
Team Charters are a trap.
I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters.
Recently an email...
a year ago
I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters.
Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a...
Programming in the...
So Long, Prog21
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
over a year ago
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer
And now, an explanation.
I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
Alex MacCaw
The Stars
Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through...
a year ago
Technology's ability to improve lives and alleviate suffering is undeniable. It has swept through our lives like a tidal wave, lifting us from the depths of ignorance and suffering. It continues to reshape the world and grants us access to tools and knowledge previously...
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement.
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying...
2 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective.
Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
Engineer’s Codex
Meta reveals their serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day
XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more...
a year ago
XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
HTMHell
#5 button-like-link
Bad code
<a href="#form" role="button" aria-haspopup="true"> Register ...
over a year ago
Bad code
<a href="#form" role="button" aria-haspopup="true"> Register </a>
Issues and how to fix them
It’s a link to a form at the same page that looks like a button.
By adding role="button" to a link, you’re telling that it’s a button, though it acts like...
David Heinemeier...
Children of You
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low...
3 months ago
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction. In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
over a year ago
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
Darek Kay
Handling Enzyme in React 18
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
over a year ago
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
over a year ago
Tips for Speakers Prerecording Talks for Online Conferences
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company
Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
a year ago
Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2023 submission
deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2023 submission
deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a
co-host of the jam alongside
technomancy but he did all the real
work setting everything up. There were 30
submissions
this time around, which I believe is a new record...
David Heinemeier...
Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way
Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
a month ago
Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
A Smart Bear
The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand"
You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of...
over a year ago
You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of actually doing it. It’s not just about how big tasks are, but about using different frameworks to prioritize each, and following certain guidelines about how to construct sprints.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400
< at a Japanese startup. At the time, options for English speaking developers in Japan were few and far between: I could only find two...
Irrational...
Video of Using LLMs in your product.
A month ago, I wrote up some notes on
using LLMs in your product,
and yesterday I got to present an...
6 months ago
A month ago, I wrote up some notes on
using LLMs in your product,
and yesterday I got to present an iteration on those notes to
the folks at the Sapphire Venture’s 2024 Hypergrowth Engineering Summit.
If you’re interested, you can watch a recording of my talk on Youtube.
There’s...
Marco.org
Apple is Listening
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant...
over a year ago
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user.
The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022)
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
a year ago
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
7 months ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere.
It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire.
My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and when?
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
4 months ago
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language.
It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript.
This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves"
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I’ve spent the...
over a year ago
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I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of
Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer.
I’d like to share some of my reflections...
bt RSS Feed
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)
2020-03-18
An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
A Beautiful Site
GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
over a year ago
This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites.
JPEG #
JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
dthompson
Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from
eBay. I loved that laptop,...
over a year ago
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from
eBay. I loved that laptop, but
time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for
modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th
generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
Blog System/5
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than...
3 months ago
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
6 months ago
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
swyx's site RSS Feed
"No Code" vs RPA
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...
over a year ago
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
TokyoDev
The rise and fall of D&D in Japan
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
9 months ago
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
alexwlchan
Plates and states
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child.
I...
4 months ago
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child.
I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to.
Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
Jake Zimmerman
A trick for invariant generics in Sorbet
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library.
I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space.
(My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The essential tools used by product engineers
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
6 months ago
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
Maggie Appleton
Speaking the GraphQL Query Language
over a year ago
somenice
Russet Lake Early Summer
An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was...
3 months ago
An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was still a bit of ice on the lake and the mountain tops are covered with snow. The painting is framed in western red cedar. Russet Lake Early Summer by Andrew SmithAcrylic on canvas10...
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
a year ago
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
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Group Analytics is now available in PostHog
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
over a year ago
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
Dan Slimmon
5 production surprises worth investigating
As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and...
a year ago
As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and getting to the bottom of them. By adopting this habit, we can find and fix many classes of problems before they turn into incidents. Over time, this makes things run much smoother. But...
Miguel Carranza
Full Circle
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
3 months ago
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my hometown is brutal, around 40 degrees Celsius (over 100 Fahrenheit for my imperial friends). Most people escape to the coast, just like my family did when I was a kid. I haven’t been here...
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PostHog raises $12 million in funding led by GV and Y Combinator
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in...
over a year ago
(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Sine and cosine
Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can...
over a year ago
Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can make things like O or 8 by using them both.
A Smart Bear
p-Hacking your A/B tests
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
a month ago
Half of your "successful" A/B tests are false-positives. This is why, and how to fix it.
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demostration of fixing a bug from Medley's debugger
<![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program.
This...
10 months ago
<![CDATA[One of the cool features of Lisp is examining and modifying a running program.
This allows, for example, to correct a bug by inspecting, editing, fixing, and resuming a program that breaks and lands in the debugger because of an error. To gain familiarity with the...
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Building an all-remote company from scratch
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
over a year ago
Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
Charles Chen
Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
7 months ago
If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
Maggie Appleton
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
over a year ago
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...
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
over a year ago
As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
a year ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
Vadim Kravcenko
Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a...
10 months ago
I've worked places where we aspired to (but did not reach) 100% code coverage.
We used tools like a code coverage ratchet to ensure that the test coverage always went up and never down.
This had a few effects.
One of them was the intended effect: we wrote more tests.
Another was...
blag
Snapshot Testing
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
9 months ago
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
Coding Horror
The Rise of the Electric Scooter
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are...
over a year ago
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right?
On an
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use.
When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well...
I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too.
So, here's my software...
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In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly...
a year ago
Want to build an AARRR funnel in PostHog? Use our AARRR dashboard template to set one up quickly and easily. What is the AARRR framework? The AARRR…
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT...
a year ago
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for
weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and
refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
A Smart Bear
The fundamental forces of scale
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective...
a year ago
These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
A Beautiful Site
PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in...
over a year ago
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in convenient PHP functions.
// Returns only the file extension (without the dot)
function file_ext($filename) {
return preg_match('/\./', $filename) ? preg_replace('/^.*\./', '',...
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
over a year ago
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
ntietz.com blog
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
a year ago
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together.
It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends.
But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Tony Finch's blog
Blue paint in the C preprocessor
In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is
rescanned for further macros....
7 months ago
In the C preprocessor, after a macro has been expanded the result is
rescanned for further macros. To prevent recursion, [the C
standard][n3220] says the following in section 6.10.5.4p2. (This text
has been basically the same since C89.)
If the name of the macro being replaced is...
Vadim Kravcenko
Embracing Hacker Culture
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […]
The post Embracing Hacker Culture appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
What is failure for you?
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a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before.
In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...
David Heinemeier...
Staying in the arena
One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job...
a year ago
One of the things that can seem difficult to understand for people who merely tolerate having a job is why anyone would continue working if they didn't have to. You often see a version of this incredulity when the peanut gallery weighs in on the choices of billionaires. Why do...
Maggie Appleton
Illustrating Gatsby's Key Concepts
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing...
over a year ago
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
Confused bit
Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker
Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
a year ago
Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
9 months ago
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting
Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing.
The banana is what you’re after.
But as a byproduct...
12 months ago
Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing.
The banana is what you’re after.
But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel.
And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel.
Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after.
But as a byproduct of whatever...
HTMHell
#29 Randomly grouping content
Bad code
<section>
<aside>
<div>
<section>
<header>
<a href="/">
...
over a year ago
Bad code
<section>
<aside>
<div>
<section>
<header>
<a href="/">
<img src="logo.svg" alt="Logo">
</a>
</header>
<main>
<a href="/services">Services</a>
<a href="/products">Products</a>
...
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Learning Gears
> Translations welcome!...
over a year ago
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
a year ago
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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over a year ago
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who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that
way, it is completely understandable...
HTMHell
5 HTML elements, And a partridge in a despair tree
HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility...
over a year ago
HTML is a beautiful programming language. It comes with many out-of-the-box accessibility benefits—it conveys semantic meaning to assistive technology, enabling people to consume content and complete often important journeys that they may not be able to do outside of the web. So...
Darek Kay
Open Graph images: Format compatibility across platforms
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are...
a month ago
While redesigning my photography website, I've looked into the Open Graph (OG) images, which are displayed when sharing a link on social media or messaging apps. Here's an example from WhatsApp:
For each photo that I publish, I create a WebP thumbnail for the gallery. I wanted...
David Heinemeier...
Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the...
a year ago
Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for...
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Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
over a year ago
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily
A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
A Smart Bear
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
over a year ago
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
Making software...
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
over a year ago
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
Don Melton
Cranking up the blogging machine again
For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of...
over a year ago
For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of introspection on my part.
Maybe the nauseating weight of the Trump administration was suppressing my desire to write for the previous three-and-a-half years? Or maybe I’m just arbitrary...
A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer
So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
over a year ago
So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider.
A different...
Liz Denys
Trashy Holidays from [the rats of] New York City!
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most...
over a year ago
This year, my household's holiday card will celebrate ("celebrate") one of New York City's most iconic images:
The back of the card explains why this problem is so commonplace on NYC's streets and says how we could fix it:
Piles of trash blocking sidewalks and bike lanes are as...
blag
Zero Disk Architecture
State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In...
4 weeks ago
State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In this short post I will explain what is Diskless / Zero Disk Architecture
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
over a year ago
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format.
function csv($array) {
$csv = "";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) {
$csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"';
if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ",";
...
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple’s Keynote, etc....
Posts on Nikita...
Switching From C++ to Rust
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages.
Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of ignoring mainstream news
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over a year ago
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nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
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Around 2 years ago I...
Ferd.ca
Hiding Theory in Practice
2022/11/23
Hiding Theory in Practice
I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading...
over a year ago
2022/11/23
Hiding Theory in Practice
I'm a self-labeled incident nerd. I very much enjoy reading books and papers about them, I hang out with other incident nerds, and I always look for ways to connect the theory I learn about with the events I see at work and in everyday life....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
10 months ago
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started.
So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app.
1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON
If you’re submitting JSON,...
Neil Panchal
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
4 months ago
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know?
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
a year ago
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
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CFP Advice
Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
over a year ago
Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
Alice GG
Plaid Layoffs and beyond
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my...
over a year ago
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people).
Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team.
Kelly Sikkema
Moving forward
While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
Josh Comeau's blog
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code...
over a year ago
No developer blog or technical documentation site is complete without an interactive code playground. The CodeSandbox team recently released a wonderful tool called Sandpack, to help us create these live-updating code editors. In this tutorial, I'll show you how I use it on this...
Josh Collinsworth
8 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Student Design Portfolio
Consider this post a guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes young designers make when...
over a year ago
Consider this post a guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes young designers make when assembling their portfolios.
Max Countryman
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt
Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech...
a year ago
Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't...
Letters of Note
Am I really writing it at all?
Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in...
over a year ago
Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
Words and Buttons...
What can we learn from sexaplication on nuclear power plants
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile
2019-10-06
Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
alexwlchan
Some small accessibility fixes
I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides...
over a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides for a new exhibition at work.
I like to think my site is already pretty accessible – I put alt text on my images and I use semantic HTML – but I did find a few rough edges to...
Josh Comeau's blog
Local Testing on an iPhone
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
over a year ago
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that...
7 months ago
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.”
Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely you’d want to know what sorcery makes this possible, right?
Well the future is...
ntietz.com blog
Approximating pi using... a cake?
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
a year ago
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon.
The celebrations have evolved.
It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie".
Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
5 months ago
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
Joel Gascoigne
Start something small
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over a year ago
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Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold
over 15 million copies, originally started:
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Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
a month ago
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
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How we do meetings at PostHog
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do...
over a year ago
Best practices for productive meetings at your startup Ever had one of those days where you do nothing but hop into one meeting after another? Even…
alexwlchan
Taking regular screenshots of my website
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
8 months ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation.
What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on.
For example,...
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing!
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
6 months ago
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30.
Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Rules of Margin Collapse
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets...
over a year ago
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
Epic Web Dev
Get Started with the Epic Workshop App (for React) (tip)
3 months ago
General Robots
Nailing the Demo
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9. If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
a year ago
You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a
cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in
2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here.
The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
Computer Things
Hyperproperties
I wrote about hyperproperties on my blog four years ago, but now an intriguing client problem got me...
a month ago
I wrote about hyperproperties on my blog four years ago, but now an intriguing client problem got me thinking about them again.1
We're using TLA+ to model a system that starts in state A, and under certain complicated conditions P, transitions to state B. They also had a flag f...
Epic Web Dev
Pixel Perfect Figma to Tailwind (workshop)
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS...
5 months ago
Learn to implement 'pixel-perfect' designs from Figma with responsive layouts, advanced CSS techniques, and Tailwind v4 migration in this workshop.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
2 months ago
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn:
We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
swyx's site RSS Feed
Specialize In The New
> Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
swyx's site RSS Feed
Waterfall
The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
over a year ago
The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
Founder's blog
Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime
For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story...
a year ago
For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out.
TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping"....
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values.
The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do
Here are two ideas at odds with each other:
You should have human-friendly URIs
Cool URIs don’t...
5 months ago
Here are two ideas at odds with each other:
You should have human-friendly URIs
Cool URIs don’t change
If a slug is going to be human-friendly, i.e. human-readable, then it's going to contain information that is subject to change because humans make errors.
If “to err is human”...
Blog System/5
Links: December 2023 edition
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
11 months ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
Julia Evans
Notes on git's error messages
While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s
error messages. I’ve...
8 months ago
While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s
error messages. I’ve had many years to get used to these error messages so it
took me a really long time to understand why folks were confused, but having
thought about it much more, I’ve realized...
Vadim Kravcenko
Database Migrations
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software...
a year ago
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […]
The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Remains of the Day
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
over a year ago
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private.
More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
Elad Blog
Silicon Valley & Defense Tech
Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a...
over a year ago
Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a defense contract. This has led to claims Silicon Valley is no longer engaging in defense tech, despite tech's roots working with the Department of Defense
HTMHell
The UX of HTML
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
a year ago
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
Liz Denys
How much flour is fifty pounds of flour?
My friends (and lots of other people, too) know that I bake a lot. In my opinion, one of the biggest...
over a year ago
My friends (and lots of other people, too) know that I bake a lot. In my opinion, one of the biggest challenges of baking is acquiring the all of the necessary ingredients, and the heaviest burden is the sugar and flour (pun only partially intended). Especially when you live the...
A Beautiful Site
Lessons from my 20s: a presentation by Ryan Allis
Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the...
over a year ago
Author and entrepreneur Ryan Allis shares 1,264 slides about life, entrepreneurship, and the world.
We all have goals, but sometimes they seem hard to reach. Really hard. Life happens and things get tough, but don't let it get you down. It's not impossible. It just means you'll...
David Heinemeier...
Apple is in its Ballmer era
During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock...
9 months ago
During Ballmer's reign as CEO of Microsoft, the company always made plenty of money. While the stock traded sideways, Ballmer made sure it was still raining dividends. Yet, today, that era of Microsoft is not looked upon too fondly. It's seen as being anchored in the company's...
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