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Daniel Immke
So why write a blog? I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
1st Sep 2017
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1st Sep 2017
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
24th Feb 2019
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24th Feb 2019
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote: This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m...
Buttondown's blog
How Sasha Frere-Jones uses Buttondown Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
1st Sep 2025
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1st Sep 2025
Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
A small freedom area...
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering. There are several...
18th Oct 2025
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18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering. There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
elementary Blog
Who Monitors The Monitor? Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
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5th Nov 2025
Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
Joel Gascoigne
Questioning and adjusting our goals * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know...
9th Jan 2011
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9th Jan 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In addition to making things systematic, I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learning Gears > Translations welcome!...
19th Apr 2019
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19th Apr 2019
> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/marchas-de-aprendizagem.html))
Boot.dev Blog
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Quentin Santos
Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
28th Apr 2024
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28th Apr 2024
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
Tom MacWright
Recently I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so...
29th Aug 2025
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29th Aug 2025
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands I’ve followed, and finding...
Matt Keeter
carvr
27th Aug 2013
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2026 This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
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4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list. Applications Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Alex Meub
Building a Removable Bike Basket for the Yepp Rack I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my...
4th Sep 2024
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4th Sep 2024
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my Yepp rear rack. I also use my rack with a child seat (the Yepp Maxi) which has a mechanism that allows it to attach and detach easily without sacrificing safety. I was thinking it...
Josh Comeau's blog
Squash and Stretch Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore...
13th Apr 2026
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13th Apr 2026
Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to destroy your app performance using React contexts useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even...
4th Oct 2021
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4th Oct 2021
useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even suggesting that we drop external state management solutions and rely on the built-in alternative instead. This is dangerous thinking that can easily push your app's performance down the...
macwright.com
Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...
14th Sep 2022
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14th Sep 2022
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
14th Dec 2018
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14th Dec 2018
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers: Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
Founder's blog
Most Demanded Helpdesk Features, According to IT Pros We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals...
11th Aug 2025
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11th Aug 2025
We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals to identify their common pain points and what they value most in existing helpdesk solutions. We've also investigated current trends in helpdesk and IT service management...
On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
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22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
19th Mar 2023
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19th Mar 2023
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
6th Jan 2022
Buttondown's blog
Migrating Buttondown to mypy The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
19th Jan 2022
Herman's blog
Pockets of Humanity Where do we go when the internet dies?
23rd Feb 2026
Founder's blog
No, Wall Street, DeepSeek is not "far superior" I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3...
30th Oct 2024
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30th Oct 2024
I mean, it is! But the whole story about the stock market reacting to the news about DeepSeek V3 and R1 is a fine example of the knee-jerk nature of mass consciousness in the era of clickbait economics. Briefly, by points: No, DeepSeek isn’t “head and shoulders...
Irrational...
Judgment and creativity are all you need. When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human...
11th Mar 2026
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11th Mar 2026
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too. Developing good software is very possible in those circumstances, but it takes a remarkable attention to...
dthompson
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm...
5th Oct 2022
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5th Oct 2022
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented programming. My Scheme of choice for the past decade has been Guile. It comes with support for OOP via GOOPS: The Guile Object Oriented...
Lee A Johnson
A Thousand Tiny Optimisations This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM...
8th Jun 2025
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8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
12th Jan 2015
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12th Jan 2015
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule. The Perfect Copper Mug The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
Maggie Appleton
Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
29th Jul 2021
Blog System/5
Whatever happened to sandboxfs? Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
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11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Aug 2026
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1st Aug 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in July Concluded my trip to Japan and posted more photos to the Tsundoku pop-up newsletter. I am having a lot of fun exploring photography as a hobby.
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
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20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
charity.wtf
Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a...
3rd Aug 2021
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3rd Aug 2021
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a very traditional breakdown of engineering manager archetypes – tech lead manager, team manager, director, and so forth – you can’t do better than Will Larson’s post, and I won’t...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or...
15th Jan 2023
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15th Jan 2023
On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. – Google, Project Jigsaw Thu, 19 Aug 2021 @EmilyKager & @[email protected] I didn’t expect to learn...
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
8th Sep 2015
bt RSS Feed
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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7th Jul 2020
Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Seldo.com
Twenty years of blogging
28th Mar 2021
davidyat.es
Review: The Lost Room
6th Aug 2023
TokyoDev
What Are Software Developers Called In Japan? The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself...
1st Dec 2025
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1st Dec 2025
The “Dev” in TokyoDev stands for “developers.” Our founder, Paul McMahon, has always called himself a developer because he’s from Canada, where only licensed professionals call themselves engineers. Yet the job title Software Developer (ソフトウェア開発者) is only rarely used in...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Reese the Cat Reese the Cat (Jan 2018) My good friend Reese the Cat died on the last day of May 2019. She was 13...
5th Jun 2019
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5th Jun 2019
Reese the Cat (Jan 2018) My good friend Reese the Cat died on the last day of May 2019. She was 13 years old – still a young cat, by cat standards. She had a tumor on her tongue and couldn’t swallow and couldn’t eat or drink. We took her to a vet clinic within walking distance...
Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
13th May 2022
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13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
Liz Denys
Hardbrücke, Zürich The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
2nd Sep 2012
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2nd Sep 2012
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
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10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
9th Sep 2021
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9th Sep 2021
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version). If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
sancho.dev
Making html_of_jsx ~10x faster A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
3rd Dec 2025
Oxide Computer...
Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69 At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we...
30th Apr 2021
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30th Apr 2021
At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we carefully review all hardware selected to ensure it meets not only functional needs but our security needs as well. This work includes reverse engineering where necessary to get a full...
A Beautiful Site
Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Marc Astbury
End user programming – my experience building an iOS app Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and...
22nd Nov 2024
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22nd Nov 2024
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and builders of software is seldom considered. A software builder sits in San Francisco and hopefully talks to and observes user needs and behaviors in order to build a product that has...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
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1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
The Web Witch's Blog
Everything I wanted 15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional...
15th Dec 2020
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15th Dec 2020
15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional high. I'd just spent a few days in Nottingham for New Adventures Conf before escaping to Leeds to saddle myself with a hangover that lasted 3 days(Oh Leeds) after which I spent an...
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
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6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Do a Coding Bootcamp Part-Time Step 1: Develop a caffeine addiction. 🔗 If you want to add coding to your list of skills, either...
12th Jul 2022
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12th Jul 2022
Step 1: Develop a caffeine addiction. 🔗 If you want to add coding to your list of skills, either out of curiosity or to take your career in a whole new direction, you’ve probably considered a coding bootcamp. Then you’ve probably looked at the prices and time commitment and...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
4th Oct 2012
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
1st Nov 2023
The Web Witch's Blog
What's next As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is...
2nd Aug 2023
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2nd Aug 2023
As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is closed. It was chaotic and tumultuous. But it was also fun and I learned loads about myself, what I'm capable of achieving, and perhaps most importantly what matters to me when it comes...
Buttondown's blog
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a...
1st Aug 2026
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1st Aug 2026
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
28th Aug 2021
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28th Aug 2021
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
seated.ro
two weeks is all you need two-weeks I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines...
21st Nov 2024
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21st Nov 2024
two-weeks I built a website (twoweeksisallyouneed dot com) with just Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero lines of code written by me. Why I did this So a couple weeks back I had a computer vision midterm and i was allowed a single page of notes. I decided to use Claude to generate a cheat...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
25th Mar 2019
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25th Mar 2019
This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
Eric Bailey
I don’t want your job
21st Jul 2020
DevOps - Bitfield...
Kubernetes at Work Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren...
20th Jun 2020
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20th Jun 2020
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git the stupid password store .title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on...
31st Jul 2024
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31st Jul 2024
.title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on your mood. – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell Like most git features, gitcredentials(7) are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
SOS
Translate your UI Strings with AI TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM...
10th Oct 2024
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10th Oct 2024
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM package. A few months ago I translated KidzFun.art to multiple other languages, using ChatGPT’s AI for the translations. This worked fine when dealing with a blank slate, but I...
Jaz's Blog
Reverse Twins
2nd Oct 2025
Ink & Switch
A Local-First Task Framework sharing the load
3rd Apr 2026
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
22nd Nov 2022
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22nd Nov 2022
When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st May 2024
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1st May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the "Shenanigans" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...
Daniel Immke
Tips for a successful WooCommerce project I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for...
29th Oct 2017
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29th Oct 2017
I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for next month. In the meantime, I thought I…
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
1st Nov 2023
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1st Nov 2023
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
1st Feb 2018
bt RSS Feed
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
10th Jul 2024
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10th Jul 2024
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
The Pragmatic...
Happy Leap Day! 29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how...
29th Feb 2024
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29th Feb 2024
29 February is causing problems in software systems across the globe. It’s a good reminder on how few assumptions we should make about dates – and why to use a date library when you can.
Joel Gascoigne
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
19th Feb 2018
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19th Feb 2018
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
11th Dec 2023
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11th Dec 2023
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
Steve Klabnik
A word about _why, Whyday, and Hackety Hack
19th Aug 2010
The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
5th Jun 2022
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5th Jun 2022
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
charity.wtf
Quarantine Reading Queue on the “Tiger King” Phenomenon Last Wednesday I walked into my living room and saw three gay rednecks in hot pink shirts being...
12th Apr 2020
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12th Apr 2020
Last Wednesday I walked into my living room and saw three gay rednecks in hot pink shirts being married as a “throuple” on a TV screen at close range, followed by one of the grooms singing a country song about a woman feeding her husband’s remains to her tigers. I could not look...
Basta’s Notes
Happier development On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
Rc-2020 on Julia...
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch! Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably...
6th Nov 2020
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6th Nov 2020
Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably be blogging about what I learn there, so I want to talk a bit about my plans! I’m excited about this because: I love RC, it’s my favourite programming community, and I’ve always...
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
11th Oct 2021
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11th Oct 2021
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Charles Chen
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
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9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
8th Mar 2010
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8th Mar 2010
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
1st Feb 2020
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1st Feb 2020
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
On Test Automation
Mutation testing - not just for unit tests I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop...
3rd Sep 2025
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3rd Sep 2025
I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop that I run on a pretty frequent basis. One misconception that pops up sometimes, either explicitly in a question or implicitly when I hear others talk about mutation testing, is...
bt RSS Feed
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my...
2nd Jun 2024
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2nd Jun 2024
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my clubs/projects while using my personal laptop (X220 ThinkPad) which is runs OpenBSD. Since I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 I thought it could be helpful for others if I shared my...
David Crawshaw
Machining under a microscope "The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
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20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally." www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
2nd Aug 2022
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2nd Aug 2022
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
20th Feb 2024
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20th Feb 2024
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Explaining git diff to myself But try to understand Try to understand Try try try to understand Git’s a magic command. –...
14th May 2022
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14th May 2022
But try to understand Try to understand Try try try to understand Git’s a magic command. – Heart  💕 Once upon a time, I believed git was storing diffs somewhere. But then I learned I was wrong. It’s challenging to wield git’s clunky interface when you have a broken mental...
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
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17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead: condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy, condition ?...
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Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
8th Dec 2024
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
16th Jul 2024
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Date me if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
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if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
ntietz.com blog -...
[Talk] Scaling Graphs On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
5th Apr 2016
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5th Apr 2016
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
13th May 2024
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13th May 2024
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
25th Oct 2021
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25th Oct 2021
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development: 🔥 the burger button. 🔥 The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
22nd Feb 2023
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22nd Feb 2023
The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
alexwlchan
Two examples of hover styles on images I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites. A good hover style reminds me of how fast and...
6th Oct 2024
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6th Oct 2024
I enjoy adding :hover styles to my websites. A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them. For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
9th Jan 2025
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9th Jan 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
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Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
4th Mar 2021
Josh Collinsworth
Forty-two I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
26th Oct 2022
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26th Oct 2022
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
3rd Feb 2021
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3rd Feb 2021
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
Steve Klabnik
Using buck to build Rust projects
13th Apr 2023
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
25th Dec 2010
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
8th Aug 2024
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8th Aug 2024
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
Founder's blog
Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release...
23rd Oct 2025
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23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever. Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App One of our most requested...
Alice GG
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
10th Oct 2022
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10th Oct 2022
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
Josh Comeau's blog
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often...
23rd Mar 2026
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23rd Mar 2026
There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can...
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
10th Sep 2023
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10th Sep 2023
The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
Jake Zimmerman
Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
wingolog
soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories. A couple years ago, my house was...
16th May 2026
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16th May 2026
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories. A couple years ago, my house was heated by a . It was awful from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective: environmental, as I would emit somewhere around 2.5 tons of CO2 equivalent per year to heat...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
19th Oct 2020
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19th Oct 2020
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
Marc Astbury
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
11th Oct 2024
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11th Oct 2024
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
Making software...
Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
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19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
Buttondown's blog
Send automations based on email addresses Send automations based on email addresses
1st Nov 2023
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
2nd Jan 2024
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2nd Jan 2024
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥 I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in...
1st Aug 2023
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1st Aug 2023
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself – Junio C Hamano, [email protected]: expired key in junio-gpg-pub Git ships with the maintainer’s public key. But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
12th Sep 2023
Neil Panchal
Neofetch – Server Administration System I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the...
4th Oct 2022
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4th Oct 2022
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the system as soon as I log in and with zero friction. I am obliged to use the one and only tool: neofetch. Neofetch is a pillar of
Joel Gascoigne
Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
3rd Jan 2021
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3rd Jan 2021
Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
The Web Witch's Blog
Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child' I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add...
1st Dec 2024
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1st Dec 2024
I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add some padding between them, as one does, and was preparing to apply padding to the left of each icon so the final icon on the right remained aligned right. On smaller screens, when...
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
1st Nov 2024
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1st Nov 2024
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming. In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment. Today, I will show you how to use...
Matt Keeter
Fab Boombox
18th Dec 2011
Matt Keeter
Stopwatch ASIC
19th Apr 2010
macwright.com
Recently Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and the birthplace of Mapbox. This one will be...
3rd Jul 2023
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3rd Jul 2023
Writing in from Washington, DC, my once-hometown and the birthplace of Mapbox. This one will be quick because I’m between one thing and another! Listening Dry Daniel by Buke and Gase Buke and Gase released some music they recorded a while ago, and there are some hits in it. I...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: September 2024 September was incredibly busy across work and personal life. I am out of a routine and trying to...
18th Oct 2024
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18th Oct 2024
September was incredibly busy across work and personal life. I am out of a routine and trying to find my way back to writing regularly (among creating in general) while also making sure I spend time doing things I enjoy. As soon as I publish this I'm off to decide what to bake...
Eric Migicovsky's...
7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to...
9th Sep 2025
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9th Sep 2025
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to send their data to Looker (Google) either. Free and…
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
1st Jul 2023
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1st Jul 2023
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊 At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty...
30th Jul 2023
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30th Jul 2023
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by Paul Narvaez (CC-By-2.0) There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone wants. Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have no idea when it’ll be back. So, driven by the...
A Beautiful Site
Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
9th Dec 2007
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9th Dec 2007
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
Liz Denys
Curried pumpkin soup Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the...
2nd Feb 2010
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2nd Feb 2010
Despite growing up in Chicago where winter is defined as "more traffic" and "delayed flights," the first thing that comes to mind in winter is creamy squash soups. In the haze of moving, Mystery Hunt, and working on writing 6.042 problems this IAP, I somehow neglected making soup...
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020 We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a...
3rd Feb 2020
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3rd Feb 2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
Boot.dev Blog
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
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7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
1st Jun 2019
The Pragmatic...
The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
12th Mar 2024
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12th Mar 2024
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
3rd Dec 2014
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3rd Dec 2014
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
charity.wtf
The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding to Become a Manager “Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews,...
1st Sep 2020
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1st Sep 2020
“Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews, 1x1s, and plain old casual conversation. I ask this question a lot, and I am often frustrated (or bored) by the answers I hear back. Most of them can be bucketed in one of three...
Quentin Santos
The RP2350 is too fast I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the...
15th May 2026
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15th May 2026
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the ST7796 one. To be more specific, displaying stuff with the first display worked flawlessly, while the ST7796 would display a single frame correctly, and then glitch. Depending on the...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as...
2nd Sep 2022
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2nd Sep 2022
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 2022-09-02 I’ve recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as “optimized” as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my current...
Boot.dev Blog
8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at...
5th Feb 2022
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5th Feb 2022
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at it for years or are just starting out. More than 97% of today’s websites are powered by JavaScript. Regardless of what field you work in, you’ll likely be exposed to JavaScript at...
Philip I. Thomas
Moonlight's pitch deck In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma...
15th Oct 2020
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15th Oct 2020
In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma Lawler. We were both leaving San Francisco, and wanted to make it easier for all developers to find specia...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git Advice Git can be confusing. It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release engineer...
31st Jul 2018
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31st Jul 2018
Git can be confusing. It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release engineer fumbling with git under pressure is a appreciable chunk of my job; as such, I’ve learned a trick or two. Recently I added some general git advice to our shared wiki page for...
Steve Klabnik
I see a future in jj
22nd Oct 2025
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago...
3rd Feb 2013
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3rd Feb 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
Sedimental
Python Community Intro The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and...
22nd Sep 2015
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22nd Sep 2015
The PSF just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community", then autosubscribed a bunch of people and solicited introductions. At first I was surprised, but I was quickly charmed by the response and joined in on the action. Here's what I wrote: If Alex Martelli is doing it, then...
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
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19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
Contraption Co.
OpenClaw is my new coworker What happens when you give AI its own laptop
2nd Feb 2026
A Day In The Life...
Let's talk about your privates Let's talk about your privates
7th Nov 2021
Boot.dev Blog
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
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4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
Herman's blog
Yes, I will have coffee with you On meeting up in meatspace
14th Apr 2025
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
Eric Bailey
My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I...
11th Jul 2023
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11th Jul 2023
I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I probably should not, and then rush to address the gap so I don’t look strange on a Zoom call or at the grocery store. This is to say that quarantine has melted my brain. Speaking of...
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
Philip Ilic Thomas
Introducing Workshop New newsletter about work in progress
1st Nov 2025
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
3rd Jun 2024
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3rd Jun 2024
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
alexwlchan
Using Pytester to test my Playwright fixtures A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser. I’ve been...
5th Jun 2026
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5th Jun 2026
A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser. I’ve been copying that fixture from project-to-project, but recently I decided to add it to chives, the utility library I use for all my static websites (or tiny archives). One of my rules...
Dan Quach Blog
Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
5th Apr 2023
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5th Apr 2023
Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
Matt Keeter
Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
Paolo Amoroso's...
The origins of my computing journey <![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned. At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session...
Josh Collinsworth
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought...
16th Jan 2026
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16th Jan 2026
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
wingolog
whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on : firstly, an idea with...
7th Aug 2025
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7th Aug 2025
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on : firstly, an idea with muddled results, then a slog through heuristics.my Immix-inspired garbage collector My mostly-marking collector’s main space is called the . Its name comes from its historical...
SOS
Clean your Mac &#038; Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing...
2 weeks ago
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TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible. My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
Joel Gascoigne
The top reason we haven’t sold our startup We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along...
13th Jan 2015
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13th Jan 2015
We’ve been lucky at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] to receive a number of acquisition offers along our journey so far. When I mention this to people, a key question that often comes up is “how did you decide not to sell?”. The earliest offer we had for Buffer was
ntietz.com blog -...
The bittersweet end of a year of independence Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
2nd Sep 2017
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2nd Sep 2017
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
2nd Mar 2021
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2nd Mar 2021
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
macwright.com
Recently November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow...
1st Dec 2022
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1st Dec 2022
November was another packed month of travel, work, and making the most of New York before the snow takes over. Reading I finally finished Barbarian Days. I think it took over a month to get through it - kept losing momentum by taking a few days off from reading during a trip. It...
The Web Witch's Blog
2024 Book Roundup My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books. I had set a stretch goal despite not meeting my 2023 goal. I...
5th Jan 2025
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5th Jan 2025
My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books. I had set a stretch goal despite not meeting my 2023 goal. I finished 31 books in 2024 and I am damn proud of that. I found myself prioritizing reading and having more time to do so. Perhaps it was finally abandoning Twitter, after realizing...
Making software...
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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7th Jul 2020
Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
A Beautiful Site
How to upgrade or downgrade Node.js using npm Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command...
5th Apr 2016
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5th Apr 2016
Need to update your version of Node.js? Here's how you can upgrade or downgrade from the command line using npm. Upgrading to the latest stable version # This will update you to the latest available stable version: sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n...
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
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11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
Ruud van Asseldonk
Model facts, not your problem domain
7th Jun 2020
Sebastian Witowski
How to Prepare for the CAPM Certification Exam "Wait, aren't you a software developer?" If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be...
14th Nov 2019
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14th Nov 2019
"Wait, aren't you a software developer?" If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be thinking: "Aren't you a prominent software developer, not a project manager?" Ok, maybe without the prominent part. But yes, you are right. I started working as a developer a few years...
ntietz.com blog -...
Where I've been, and the future of this blog Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while,...
17th Jun 2026
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17th Jun 2026
Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while, and he said he hopes I'm doing well. The truth is, some days I am and some days I'm not. I want to share a little bit about what's been going on, and what the future looks...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Papageno's Glockenspiel-kulele [Ukulele Ringtone] A ringtone for Chelsea based on Papageno's Glockenspiel music from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
26th May 2013
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
4th Feb 2022
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4th Feb 2022
As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
macwright.com
Recently We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers...
1st Nov 2022
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1st Nov 2022
We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers in their own, private, enormous pen. It was a petting zoo, but with two golden retrievers. They defended their space against other dogs who wanted to say hi, but stayed near the...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
12th Jan 2025
Jordan Eldredge's...
I was interviewed for a podcast My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
29th Oct 2016
Alex MacCaw
The problem with US healthcare is not capitalism Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs...
24th May 2026
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24th May 2026
Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs fundamental change. They are right. They are also wrong about why. The standard diagnosis runs roughly: too much capitalism, too much profit, too many private companies, too...
Boot.dev Blog
The Two Classes of Software Engineer “Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
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5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Using AWK like grep with envvars This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s right, I use DuckDuckGo like a...
6th May 2018
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6th May 2018
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s right, I use DuckDuckGo like a verb). Like everyone who lives the daily joy (and, frequently, deep frustration) of using the command line to accomplish day-to-day tasks I am a fairly deft manipulator of...
wingolog
ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler now supports managed...
6th Feb 2026
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6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel itself: Then run a quick check with :hello, world Now give a check...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
6th Mar 2025
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6th Mar 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
Eric Bailey
Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
2nd Jun 2016
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
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4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
TokyoDev
Writing Developer Job Postings When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
28th Aug 2015
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28th Aug 2015
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Cormac McCarthy's library Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
1st Sep 2025
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
4th Jan 2024
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4th Jan 2024
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
Daniel Marino
How I Handletter When I first got into hand-lettering, I had a hard time finding people who shared their full...
19th Sep 2025
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19th Sep 2025
When I first got into hand-lettering, I had a hard time finding people who shared their full process—especially the digitizing phase. So here’s a look at how I typically work. Everyone’s process is different, and a lot depends on your style and how you plan to present the piece....
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: November 2023
7th Nov 2023
Founder's blog
I'm finally dumping Visual Studio After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and...
19th Jun 2024
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19th Jun 2024
After years of working with the "big" Visual Studio, I've had enough. It's buggy, slow, and frustrating, and I've decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code. While as a C# developer I'm still unsure if I can replicate every aspect of my workflow in VS Code, I'm...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Launching the Coding Career Handbook! I'm launching my career advice book today!
1st Jul 2020
SOS
Gif to MP4 encoding in the browser, the terminal &#038; everywhere else TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the...
6th Nov 2025
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6th Nov 2025
TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it. My kids enjoy building cute (and...

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