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A Smart Bear
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But...
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How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.
Posts on Nikita...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
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This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Making software...
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn't the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
blag
Snapshot Testing A smoll intro to snapshot testing
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value) The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
over a year ago
Yale e360
Writing Hurl's grammar, twice Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl. Writing the initial code samples and...
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Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl. Writing the initial code samples and developing the concept is all fine and good, but the next step is to actually make it work. The steps I outlined for developing Hurl in the last post were: Write out code samples to...
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...
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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,...
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
over a year ago
HTMHell
HTMHAIL by Léonie Watson Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... Can you give me the HTML for an...
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6 months ago
by Léonie Watson Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please? It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink deformation You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but...
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You can think of informal ink as a superset of formal ink: it starts out with less structure, but structure can be added over time, by the sketcher or the system.
Steve Klabnik
Single text, many masters
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
We’re so back Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There...
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Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
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Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Forcing file downloads in PHP I've seen a number of methods to force file downloads using the PHP header() function which,...
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I've seen a number of methods to force file downloads using the PHP header() function which, essentially, sends a raw HTTP header to the browser. Depending on your browser, some files won't be downloaded automatically. Instead, they will be handled by the browser itself or a...
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000 This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
over a year ago
Irrational...
Steps to build an engineering strategy. Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense...
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Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense with ideas, these can be hard to parse, and are a major reason why most engineers will claim their company doesn’t have a clear strategy even though my experience is that all...
swyx's site RSS Feed
80/20 is the new Half-Ass Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look...
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Don't spend your life spraying 20% effort all over the place, hoping for 80% results, only to look back and wonder why you never hit 100% on anything.
Eric Bailey
accessiBe and the false David vs. Goliath narrative immediately stop creating harm for the people trying to use your website or web app. Remove...
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immediately stop creating harm for the people trying to use your website or web app. Remove accessiBe’s one line of embed code, ride out your contract’s remaining time, and don’t renew—treat the cost as lesson learned. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of accessibility...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Google is about to make it a lot harder to track website and app users without third-party cookies Google says they intend to deprecate the use of third-party cookies in 2023. But why is this...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
03 · What's In a Name? Why we've renamed the project
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding How IP Addressing evolved over time, how it works today, and how we can transition to IPv6 in future
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Where at least I know I'm free I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people...
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I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people delusional. Sure, I'd think, you're not North Korea or Venezuela, but is that really a standard worth celebration? Shouldn't America compare itself to higher alternatives, like...
A Smart Bear
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for...
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Brittleness is when the company fails because just one component breaks. Learn some strategies for fixing Brittle Points.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
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“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
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Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
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Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience. › Guiding...
beep.blog
.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
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The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
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...
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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”...
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
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At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
Maggie Appleton
Historical Trails Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory...
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Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language Your browser does not support the video tag.
7 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them? Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
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Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […] The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Irrational...
Executive translation. One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives...
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One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts is Extract the Kernel, which argues that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting distracted by the narrow errors in their...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022 TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on,...
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TurboRepo is a big deal for the JS community because it addresses the monorepo problem head on, bringing 85% faster build speeds and great architecture/docs/marketing.
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
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Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
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One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage." In my opinion, these goals conflict...
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
a year ago
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
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On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies. A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
HTMHell
You don't need JavaScript for that by Kilian Valkhof Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want...
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by Kilian Valkhof Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want to read it on the website. Please don't feel antagonised by the title of this article. I don't hate JavaScript, I love it. I write bucketloads of it every single day. But I also...
Words and Buttons...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
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An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
David Heinemeier...
Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faith Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app...
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Apple just lost an appeal on the ruling from the Epic case that mandated the company allow app developers the right to link to their own websites. And it seems like Apple had been preparing for this outcome, because immediately thereafter, Apple revealed an elaborate bad-faith...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-03 "As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half...
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"As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half megaton nuclear missile warheads at your least favorite country. Apparently this is how civilized countries who do not possess enemies with a plurality of coastal cities exterminate...
Yale e360
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
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One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning: Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain? On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
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Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
bt RSS Feed
Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at your browser’s URL - I’ve swapped over to a new domain for my personal website: tdarb.org. I’m a fickle person and this is a random change - but it is one I’ve been planning to do...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
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Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
David Heinemeier...
The curing value of creation It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a...
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It's hard not to see your spirits lifted when you're part of bringing something to life. Be that a product, an organization, or a community, or all three at once. Like exercise, it's one of those rare avenues of human endeavor that almost invariably will make anyone feel better....
Blog of Simple...
Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
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...
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(Dec 17, 2020) – PostHog, the open source product analytics company, today announced $12 million in funding and major new features - including plugins…
David Heinemeier...
Why don't more people use Linux? A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds ---
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
10x engineers talk to users I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
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I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
Sometimes It Works...
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override...
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Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
macwright.com
The module pattern really isn't needed anymore by I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available...
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I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available in JavaScript. I was kind of skeptical of class syntax when it came out, but now there really isn’t any reason to use any other kind of “class” style than the ES6 syntax. The...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fave New Podcasts in 2021 My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
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My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020 In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
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Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
Irrational...
Constraints on giving feedback. Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my...
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Back when I was managing at Digg and Uber, I spent a lot of time delivering feedback to my management chain about issues in our organization. My intentions were good, but I alienated my management chain without accomplishing much. I also shared my concerns with my team, which I...
Tinloof - Blog
A/B testing with Sanity and LaunchDarkly We’ll show in this demo how it’s possible to create and control A/B Tests using Sanity and...
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Syntax highlighting with render hooks
8 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Persisting State to localStorage in Recoil Across Browser Tabs I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some...
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I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple...
Eric Bailey
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Your Site's Calling Card > Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
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> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
macwright.com
Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
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Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML vs TypeScript: comparing their type systems A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values...
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A type is a labeled set of constraints that can be imposed on a value. A type system analyses values in a piece of code, and validates them against their types. JavaScript has a type system, but it’s dynamic. This is one of the key advantages of using the language, providing an...
The Pragmatic...
Cruel Changes at Twitter The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks...
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The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks after Elon Musk bought the company. Managers will have 20+ reports and are expected to code at least 20% of the time.
Steve Klabnik
Introducing the rails-api project
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by...
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The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map. It’s an...
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Steve Klabnik
On the eve of #m1gs
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Open-sourcing Keyhive, filtering Ambsheets, and Sketchpad explorations Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about...
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Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about filtering scenarios in a spreadsheet, and some explorations of the historic Sketchpad project for constraint-based drawing.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular PostHog alternatives, compared As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need...
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As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need quantitative and qualitative insights into user…
Julia Evans
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git...
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Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to me (those are...
The Changelog
Rehabilitating Asynchronous Communication with NNCP: A Cross Between Tor, ssh, and UUCP Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was...
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over a year ago
Have you ever been traveling, shot a ton of photos and videos, but were annoyed to find it was saturating the terrible wifi you had access to? Maybe you’d wish the upload to pause until you get somewhere else, but then pausing syncing on your Nextcloud/Syncthing/Dropbox would...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
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Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
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Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
HTMHell
#5 button-like-link Bad code <a href="#form" role="button" aria-haspopup="true"> &nbsp;&nbsp;Register&nbsp;&nbsp;...
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Bad code <a href="#form" role="button" aria-haspopup="true"> &nbsp;&nbsp;Register&nbsp;&nbsp; </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...
Quentin Santos
IndexedDB is Weird Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
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Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
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Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading to Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 <![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian...
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<![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian Bookworm 12.9: The desktop of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 on a Raspberry Pi 400. Since I had no files to preserve the process was surprisingly easy as I went with a full...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-01 "It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
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"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash." www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
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over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
A Beautiful Site
SVG Repo I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images....
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I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images. Check it out over at SVG repo. Looks like they have a sister site for fonts, too. Lots of 'em.
Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
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Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
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Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader,...
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In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader, but did not go in more details. In this article, I want to go just a bit further, by showing some two-way interactions. We’ll use the initial basic “real” UART setup. Note that I...
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Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
General Robots
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Yale e360
A few weird ways of displaying git hashes I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking...
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I was reading "Real-World Cryptography" and ran across an thought-provoking statement. While talking about why hashes are often represented in hexademical, the author states (emphasis mine): There are other ways to encode binary data for human consumption, but the two most widely...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
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I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes. It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
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...
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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...
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Width or Flex-Basis? Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
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Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let’s breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Irrational...
How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016) While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I...
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While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I personally think that Stripe’s most interesting strategy work is also among its most subtle: its willingness to significantly prioritize API stability. This strategy is almost...
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...
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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...
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
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The Changelog
The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a...
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Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as...
Dan Quach Blog
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
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Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
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over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
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This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0 I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
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I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
TokyoDev
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
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*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro How to write macros without touching the terminal
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older...
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Puppeteer is a node.js library that makes it easy to do advanced web scraping and spidering. Older generation of web scraping and spidering tools would grab and analyze HTML pages as returned by a web server. It doesn’t work well anymore because less and less website are static...
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HogMail #18: What can SaaS learn from the New York Times? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
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I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
Computer Things
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
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Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7 I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
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I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box.  They're pretty easy to remember too: Win + Up - Maximize the current window Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
Eric Bailey
Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers...
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I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent. There is another browser extension called “Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss”. It is made by the highly suspicious Firefox user...
HTMHell
The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
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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...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Alex's Notes Alex Warth’s notes after experimenting with extensions to Crosscut
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A Smart Bear
Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing? Have a great idea? Prove it by finding ten customers ready to hand over cash. Everything else is...
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
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We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
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Making software...
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
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CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
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WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
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The 6 best free and open-source A/B testing tools Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your...
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Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design…
Maggie Appleton
Building VR Apps with React360 Illustrated notes on building VR web apps with React360
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A Smart Bear
What makes a strategy great Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do...
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Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.
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...
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The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
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HogMail #20: Why do startups fail? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Epic Web Dev
Quickly Determine Whether a Module is Bundled (tip) There's a faster alternative to using source-map-explorer to examine your client bundle for unwanted...
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
A Web Components Primer On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
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On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple thought quickly turned into a series of tweets that folks seem to find useful. I've adapted the thread and I'm posting it here for prosperity. Overview # Shadow DOM? Light DOM? Slots?...
Julia Evans
Reasons to use your shell's job control Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me...
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Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z, wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
A Smart Bear
A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization...
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It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025 Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023 The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
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The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
Liz Denys
The night sky and finding hope in the dark I found inspiration for this pitcher's glaze design in the night sky. Whenever I feel lost, I know...
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I found inspiration for this pitcher's glaze design in the night sky. Whenever I feel lost, I know I can always look up and be under the same night sky, no matter where I am. Whenever I feel alone, I know I can always look up and feel connected to humanity, everyone else looking...
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
over a year ago
alexwlchan
A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
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I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started. I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
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Array 1.41.0: Improving performance by up to 400% Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.41.0 update guide for self-hosted…
Blog of Simple...
Data retention in Google Analytics
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A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
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By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
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I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product: Materials and Components I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
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Observability for Frontend Developers Some thoughts on how frontend developers can also embrace instrumenting their apps for observability
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A Beautiful Site
Password protection using .htaccess and .htpasswd The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and...
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The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd files. .htpasswd # Create a text file with the following text: username:password The usernames and passwords are stored in this file, one per line, separated by a colon. To...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM...
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over a year ago
The last iteration of this blog was a Go program running on Digital Ocean’s cheapest VM ($5/month). Recently I’ve made 2 big changes: I converted it to a static site hosted on Netlify I used Notion for writing the posts instead of writing markdown files in a text editor Moving to...
David Heinemeier...
Servers can last a long time We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
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We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
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over a year ago
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
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over a year ago
Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote. For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files. Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed) I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
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I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much. I thought I more or less understood the...
Seldo.com
Twenty years of blogging
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Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
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ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
Joel Gascoigne
Pricing your product: It doesn&#x27;t have to be so complicated * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last week...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last week I’ve talked with a few early stage startup founders about pricing. It seems pricing is often a large block for many. It’s understandable, since there are so many decisions to...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
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over a year ago
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it? You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
Blog of Simple...
Why Meta is in a world of trouble
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
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a year ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
over a year ago
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
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I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more. I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
A Day In The Life...
A list of 100 opinions I hold A list of 100 opinions I hold
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
getopt() but smaller The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically...
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The other day I learned about the Rust crate lexopt which describes itself as, A pathologically simple command line argument parser. Most argument parsers are declarative: you tell them what to parse, and they do it. This one provides you with a stream of options and values and...
Irrational...
Digital release of Engineering Executive's Primer. Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical...
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a year ago
Quick update on The Engineering Executive’s Primer. The book went to print yesterday, and physical copies will be available in March. Also, as of this moment, you can purchase the digital edition on Amazon, and read the full digital release on O’Reilly. (You can preorder physical...
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
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Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
David Heinemeier...
Challenging the guardians of the paradigm I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in...
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a year ago
I swear the intention isn’t to constantly start fights with guardians of every sacred paradigm in the tech world. To be honest, it’s been a bit exhausting at times to concurrently argue on at least three major flanks. But that’s just how this year has turned out, given the work...
Steve Klabnik
Emoji licensing
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A Smart Bear
Our unhealthy fixation with emulating #1 Being "undefeated" or "#1" might be more luck than you know.
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Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
Seldo.com
The case for frameworks
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Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
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From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
Words and Buttons...
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
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An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
samwho.dev
Language Interoperability From the Ground Up How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in...
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over a year ago
How does a function in Ruby call a function in C? How does a function in Kotlin call a function in Java? It's no secret that you can call functions in one programming language from another. Not only is it possible, it can be done in multiple ways. But how does it actually...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
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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...
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
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over a year ago
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Choice Architecture Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of...
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Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8 Available Today We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on...
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We’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8 is available to download later today and shipping on several high-quality computers! With OS 8, we’ve focused in on: Creating a new Secure Session that ensures applications respect your privacy and require your consent A brand new...
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
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In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
A Beautiful Site
Testing Support for :focus-visible The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in...
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The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets: /* Please don't do this */ button:focus { outline: none; } While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
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Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
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Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
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Google Sheets v4 API with Netlify Dev wiring up Google Sheets via a Netlify Function
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Engineer’s Codex
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Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
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When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
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Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
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React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article) React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
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React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
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Less cgo overhead in Go 1.8 name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000...
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name old time/op new time/op delta CgoNoop-8 146ns ± 1% 56ns ± 6% -61.57% (p=0.000 n=25+30) golang.org/cl/30080
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4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4 In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
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In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing. Other Sites But...
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how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
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Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
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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...
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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...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
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There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
On Test Automation
On ditching hourly and productizing my services In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
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In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
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Welcome to Unsupervised Learning Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
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Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
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Making engineering strategies more readable As discussed in Components of engineering strategy, a complete engineering strategy has five...
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As discussed in Components of engineering strategy, a complete engineering strategy has five components: explore, diagnose, refine (map & model), policy, and operation. However, it’s actually quite challenging to read a strategy document written that way. That’s an effective...
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Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
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Eric Bailey
Making content-aware components using CSS’ <code>:has()</code>, grid, and quantity queries
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That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls...
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Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls and emails from the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor. The work there - and its associated frustration - sent me down a path of sending requests throughout the US to both learn...
On Test Automation
My career and a thought experiment As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
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As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
A Smart Bear
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
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Eric Bailey
GitHub now has a setting to underline links A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an...
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a year ago
A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an underline effect to links in body content. The link underlines are present in Issue and Pull Request comments, as well as other areas of the site. We are still identifying areas where...
Vadim Kravcenko
What is your unethical CS career’s advice? Hey there, First off, kudos to you for having the courage to ask the tough questions that many think...
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Hey there, First off, kudos to you for having the courage to ask the tough questions that many think but […] The post What is your unethical CS career’s advice? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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The social media censorship era is over (for now) Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
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Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do: Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X. Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
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The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
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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...
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* 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...
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Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
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Dispatch 004: Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we’re sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
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Topologies of Remote Teams When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
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When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
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Don't Rush to Simplicity Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
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Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
David Crawshaw
2016-01-15 "The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student...
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"The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a...
Grant Slatton
Things I wish I knew earlier Collection of stuff I would tell my younger self if I could
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TokyoDev
The "No, I Don't Live In Tokyo" Series: Developing in Kansai There’s more to Japan than Tokyo and its Kanto region! Would you consider living and working in...
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There’s more to Japan than Tokyo and its Kanto region! Would you consider living and working in Kansai instead? The Kansai region of Japan most famously encompasses the prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara—Osaka being Japan’s second-largest city after Tokyo, and Kyoto and Nara...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
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Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
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I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Eric Bailey
Visit for a surprise Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility...
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Could spoiling a joke be an accessibility issue? You better believe it. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Success Criterion 2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context) instructs us to ensure that a link’s accessible name makes sense when separated from its surrounding context. It’s why...
David Heinemeier...
Rails World sold out in less than 45 minutes There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no...
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There hasn't been a major, dedicated Rails conference in Europe since 2008, so perhaps it's no surprise that there was pent-up demand. But I was still shocked to see the forthcoming Rails World visit to Amsterdam sell out in less than 45 minutes yesterday! What an awesome...
alexwlchan
It’s cool to care I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow...
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I’m sitting in a small coffee shop in Brooklyn. I have a warm drink, and it’s just started to snow outside. I’m visiting New York to see Operation Mincemeat on Broadway – I was at the dress rehearsal yesterday, and I’ll be at the opening preview tonight. I’ve seen this show more...
macwright.com
Recently Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun...
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a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
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I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
As Good as HTML Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on...
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a year ago
Jan Miksovsky has a talk titled “Delivering Universal UI Patterns as Web Components” that speaks on the incredible opportunity that is web components: That HTML tag that you create [for a web component] that’s just HTML. You can use that anywhere you use HTML. That means the...
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
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Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
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Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
Marc Astbury
The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
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The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers,...
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In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is:...
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over a year ago
People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
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over a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
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a year ago
I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”. It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
Making software...
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
A Beautiful Site
Give your JPEGs alpha channels If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem...
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over a year ago
If you need alpha transparency on the web, 24-bit PNGs are usually your best bet. The only problem is that PNGs are lossless and can grow in file size very quickly — much larger than your average JPEG. So what if there was a way for JPEGs to support alpha channels? I discovered...
macwright.com
Recently Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my...
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Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are...
A Smart Bear
How to get customers who love you even when you screw up Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from...
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Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from earnest people, not stolid, cold, inhuman corporations.
Irrational...
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The World's Greatest Netlify Demo 2019 _Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify...
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_Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/10/07/complete-intro-to-netlify-in-3.5-hours/) and [the FreeCodeCamp...
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Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Check…
TokyoDev
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syntax highlighting with tree-sitter I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I...
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I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I learned, with some complaining. static site generator markdown ingestion highlighting incompatible?! highlight names class names styling code results future...
Eric Bailey
So you wanna create an eco-friendly website
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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2022 / Berlin] Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a waitlist with Supabase and Next.js Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval,...
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Let's build a simple app where: 1. Users sign up and join a waitlist. 2. Upon admin approval, users get a notification email and can use the app.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Tell me about features, not benefits Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
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Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
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Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
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We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
David Crawshaw
2015-08-04 www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
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Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
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I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is...
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Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned. I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post about it. These introductory sections...
David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Dan Quach Blog
Braces Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
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Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
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Against Namespacing Personal Sites I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm...
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I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
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You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
David Heinemeier...
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift...
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Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license. That's it, and this ought to be straight forward, but I repeatedly see that it is not (no...
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
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A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
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In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
Computer Things
Know (of) the right tool for the job Last week's Picat essay did pretty well online! One of the common responses was "This looks really...
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Last week's Picat essay did pretty well online! One of the common responses was "This looks really interesting but I don't know where I'd use it." For Picat there was a gap of five years between me hearing about it and actually learning it. The same is true for most of the weird...
Charles Chen
C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make...
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The Codist
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
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Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
Sometimes It Works...
No No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website...
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No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website builtwithbootstrap.com. The post would need to contain a minimum of 2 paragraphs relating to online casinos and a link to one of our client’s websites. We can pay directly into your paypal account...
macwright.com
The one about AI Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big...
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Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big thing, crypto, wasn’t. I don’t think it’ll become generalized AI - I think the AI winter cycle is the base case and human-like intelligence is qualitatively different than LLM, no...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thoughts from “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on...
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I just watched Apple’s “Meet Safari for Spatial Computing” where they talk about how Safari works on the new visionOS and what you can do to make your web pages look great on Apple’s new device. tl;dr just keeping doing what responsive web design and accessibility experts have...
Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Reframing "Freemium" by charging the marketing department Freemium means high costs, low conversion, and customer feedback dominated by the non-ideal...
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Freemium means high costs, low conversion, and customer feedback dominated by the non-ideal customer. Treat it as a marketing expense to ensure ROI.
the singularity is...
A One Way Bridge Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It...
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Okay I went to Devcon. And while there I had a great idea that the crypto space really needs. It seems like while AI infrastructure has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 5 years, crypto infra has actually gotten worse. I’m proposing some great new infrastructure that the...
Eric Bailey
Keeping track of letter-spacing, some guidelines
over a year ago
Marc Astbury
Place Your Bets Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect...
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Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect information. The Market Bet Your foundational bet isn’t just picking a market, it’s betting that you understand how that market will evolve. This bet shapes everything downstream: If...
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
10 months ago
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
Maggie Appleton
October 2021
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Yale e360
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd...
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As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week. This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope: the Thanksgiving post. Of course,...
Eric Bailey
In defense of Mega Man boss lairs Mega Man games are light on plot, but do a lot of showing not telling. This happens to be my...
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Mega Man games are light on plot, but do a lot of showing not telling. This happens to be my favorite form of storytelling, so of course I spent too much time thinking about the Mega Man universe. If you’re not familiar, Mega Man is a popular video game franchise, as well as the...
Blog of Simple...
Does Google sell your data?
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
Sometimes It Works...
When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t… When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even...
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When deciding which framework to use a few months back for all of our new systems, there wasn’t even a mention of framework speed. The truth is in practice that it just doesn’t matter for a large proportion of use-cases and certainly not for ours (funded startup with tens of...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of insert design industry here and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
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In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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writing Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few writings
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Opening a new window after an async operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in...
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I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. However, I needed to fetch the target URL from the server first, then open the window. Kinda like this: const button =...
macwright.com
Hawbuck wallets There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the...
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There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the most famous. An option that never seems to come up in internet listicles but I’ve sworn by for years is the Hawbuck wallet. My personal preferences for this kind of thing...
Confessions of a...
Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB Watch now (20 mins) | Learn how to inspect registers, step through instructions, and investigate...
a month ago
TokyoDev
There’s No Place Like Home: Finding an Apartment in Japan What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor...
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10 months ago
What’s this about key money, gift money, guarantors, and guarantor companies? Why did the realtor give a moving-in quote of 600,000 yen for an apartment that costs 80,000 yen a month to rent? Why does my apartment not have lights, curtains, or even a stove? Am I getting ripped...
Posts on Nikita...
What's that touchscreen in my room? Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things...
David Crawshaw
2015-03-10 golang.org/s/go15gcpacing
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The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
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I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
A Beautiful Site
PlayCanvas: an easy, open source WebGL game engine Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive...
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Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive enough, today I'm giving you a dose of HTML5 and WebGL greatness. The project is called PlayCanvas, and it dubs itself an open source game engine that brings fun to the...
Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and...
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I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
HTMHell
Improving SEO without knowing where to start Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast...
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Summary Introduction What is SEO ? Web quality with Opquast SEO-related Opquast rules Conclusion Introduction ↑ Colleagues sometimes ask me: “Hey Alex, I would like to learn a bit about search engine optimisation (SEO) but I don't really know where to start. Do you have tips for...
TokyoDev
Keeping your job board legal in Japan I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
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I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
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JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
Renegade Otter
Your database skills are not ‘good to have’ A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search...
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A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was one of those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
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The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
Marco.org
Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
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over a year ago
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
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The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
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An Annotated Guide to React Server Components React Server Components are a nuanced, sweeping addition to React's existing capabilities. This is...
over a year ago
Irrational...
Building your executive network. In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along...
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In most of my roles, I’ve learned more from my peers than from my manager. Even when you get along well with your manager, your peers’ perspective will usually be closer to yours than your manager’s. Once you transition into an engineering executive role, you’ll still have peers,...
macwright.com
SaaS exits by I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit...
a year ago
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I’ve been moving things for Placemark’s shutdown as a company and noting some of the exit experiences: Loom is surprisingly hard to exit from. There’s no bulk export option, no way to export metadata. Webflow doesn’t support exporting sites with CMS collections (blogs, docs,...
bunnie's blog
Name that Wäre, July 2023 The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to...
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a year ago
The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to him, this was fished out of a dumpster in Germany, hence “wäre” (and yes, it’s a nonsense word, but I also think it’s cute). We had a little chuckle over the ware’s construction (or...
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...
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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?