Sebastian Witowski
Managing Gigabytes of Images with git-annex
Earlier this year, I hit GitLab's 10GB storage limit with one of my git repositories. I'm writing a...
13th Mar 2024
Earlier this year, I hit GitLab's 10GB storage limit with one of my git repositories. I'm writing a family blog where I document our various trips and activities, hoping that in 20 years, it will be a great memento (like a photo album combined with a journal in a digital form,...
Sebastian Witowski
My Favorite CLI Tools
Previously, I wrote about my favorite Mac apps. But I spend half of my time in the terminal, and I...
18th Jun 2020
Previously, I wrote about my favorite Mac apps. But I spend half of my time in the terminal, and I have a handful of CLI tools that makes my life easier. Here are some of them:
This is a long list, so here is a table of content with tl;dr summaries:
fish shell - easy to use,...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
2nd Jul 2023
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever
Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows
Paint.net -...
10th Apr 2012
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever
Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows
Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor
Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC)
IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats
Media Player Classic -...
bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
1st Aug 2024
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies.
There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
Daniel Immke
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer
The most stressful period of my career.
5th Sep 2020
The most stressful period of my career.
Boot.dev Blog
Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell...
4th Jul 2023
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
15th Apr 2025
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC:
Screenshot...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
21st Dec 2023
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
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...
a week 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...
bt RSS Feed
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s...
2nd Sep 2020
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
The History of the...
Stumbling upon
Something like a channel changer, for the web. That's what the idea was at first. But it led to a...
9th Sep 2025
Something like a channel changer, for the web. That's what the idea was at first. But it led to a whole new path of discovery that even the site's creators couldn't have predicted.
The post Stumbling upon appeared first on The History of the Web.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours...
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
9th May 2022
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
Some Bits: Nelson's...
The Residents - Commercial Album
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
2nd Nov 2025
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
alexwlchan
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python
Consider the following JSON object:
{
"sides": 4,
"colour": "red",
"sides": 5,
"colour":...
4th May 2025
Consider the following JSON object:
{
"sides": 4,
"colour": "red",
"sides": 5,
"colour": "blue"
}
Notice that sides and colour both appear twice.
This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax!
It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Jazz Ukuele Video: What's New?
I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
2nd Apr 2010
I arranged and recorded a jazz ukulele version of the classic song 'What's New?'
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding graphics support to DandeGUI
<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like.
Some text and graphics output...
4th Jun 2025
<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like.
Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp.
In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
David Gerrells
never give up
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Daniel Immke
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
9th Dec 2017
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
The History of the...
Prepping for the endgame of the open web
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare.
The post...
7th Apr 2026
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare.
The post Prepping for the endgame of the open web appeared first on The History of the Web.
the singularity is...
Wireheading City
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line...
11th Apr 2023
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line that defines civilization.
Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
27th Mar 2015
I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with anyone.
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
2nd Sep 2015
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions:
Where do you work?
Where do you live?
How much is your rent?
Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
elementary Blog
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few...
6th Sep 2023
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
tonsky.me
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient...
15th Oct 2025
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file.
Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work.
Christmas Lights Diarrhea
Most color themes...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
8th Jan 2025
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
7th Feb 2024
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board.
Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8:
Morphing...
Confessions of a...
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly
Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
5th May 2025
Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
Jordan Eldredge's...
Infinite javascript array using AJAX
A simple way to asynchronously load suggestions into an array in JavaScript.
10th Feb 2014
A simple way to asynchronously load suggestions into an array in JavaScript.
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
17th Oct 2024
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance,...
6th Jan 2025
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.
I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in.
There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
Here are a few...
Marc Astbury
Notes on Improving Churn
Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn....
12th Mar 2025
Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn. However, proactively reducing churn is a difficult task. I’ll outline the approach we’ve taken at Jenni AI to go from ~17% to 9% churn over the past year. We are still a work in progress...
wingolog
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is...
17th Dec 2025
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a
parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to
receive an award and give a speech. (I know, I am a ridiculous...
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
14th Oct 2023
HTMHell
#25 A link is a button is a link
Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0" type="button"...
30th Apr 2021
Note: We've removed most classes to improve readability.
Bad code
<a tabindex="0" type="button" href="/signup" role="link">
<span class="focus" tabindex="-1"></span>
<span>
<span>
<span>Sign up</span>
<i class="icon icon-external-link" aria-hidden="true"...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pick Up What They Put Down
> Translations welcome! (Português)
1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! (Português)
Boot.dev Blog
How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don't matter
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this...
21st Sep 2014
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as
part of the values of the company
[http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04].
Since we defined our value of...
macwright.com
Recently
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
3rd Mar 2023
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things
are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work.
Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to
end.
Reading
I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
Maggie Appleton
Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious...
4th Jan 2025
Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it
Posts on Nikita...
How Binary JSON Works in YDB
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed...
8th Jun 2022
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
In the early 2020 I was working in the Distributed Queries team of YDB. YDB is a Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions. One of my key tasks there was...
Marco Bambini
Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a...
30th Jan 2024
As promised back when we introduced Solid Queue, today we’ve open-sourced Mission Control — Jobs, a dashboard and set of extensions to operate and observe background jobs, that we’ve been using for over a year, in the beginning with Resque only, and later with both Resque and...
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
13th Dec 2024
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
Alice GG
Self-hosting your code on Gitea
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product?
The best way to shield yourself from that is...
16th Oct 2025
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product?
The best way to shield yourself from that is to start self-hosting your code repositories.
I have been running a self-hosted instance of Gitea for around two months,
and so far the process has been pretty close to...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: WebAssembly
What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?
1st Jan 2022
What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
6th Jun 2022
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
7th Aug 2023
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Computer Things
Write the most clever code you possibly can
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
8th May 2025
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead!
New Logic for Programmers release!
v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it?
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
30th Jun 2020
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
Liz Denys
Introducing Loose Leaf Security, and our first episode: Securing your online account passwords
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good...
4th Jun 2018
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. We believe you don't need to be a software engineer or security professional to understand how to keep your devices and data safe. In every...
General Robots
Vibe-Cadding
It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).
6th Jul 2026
It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).
Sometimes It Works...
2024: Just the Start
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
31st Dec 2024
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it.
Here are a few highlights:
We went to Japan! My first time in...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior
I’ve been at my current job for three years, and I am suddenly, accidentally, the most senior...
1st Nov 2020
I’ve been at my current job for three years, and I am suddenly, accidentally, the most senior engineer on the team. I spend my days handling things like bootcamps, mentoring, architecture, and helping other engineers carve off meaningful work. This has taken a huge toll on the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10...
1st Sep 2025
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10 implementation for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, a 1970s character based environment that predated the graphical Interlisp-D system.
I approached this corner when I set out to learn and...
blag
Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
20th Apr 2023
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran this poll:
2nd Sep 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran this poll:
Nelson's Weblog
PreSonus Eris speakers
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a...
8th Jun 2024
PreSonus makes good
computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100
for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I
have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube
videos, compressed music, games. ...
HTMHell
#31 additional “assistance”
Bad code
<a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional
assistance in...
12th Apr 2022
Bad code
<a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional
assistance in navigating or accessing the content of this website,
please call our customer service toll free number 1-800-666-8654309" title="If
you find that you need additional assistance in...
DevOps - Bitfield...
Dips and Wiggles
Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to
go somewhere. Here’s...
26th Feb 2022
Modern infrastructure generates a heck of a lot of data, and it all has to
go somewhere. Here’s how to connect your Checkly data to Prometheus and
Grafana, as part of an integrated observability pipeline.
Neil Panchal
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU...
7th Dec 2021
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows:
Neil's Lab Server Specifications
CPU Model
Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo)
CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189
Motherboard
Supermicro...
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
somenice
Coding with Claude Code
Vibe coding, code assistance, no-code, call it what you want. “AI” coding tools are likely being...
4th Aug 2025
Vibe coding, code assistance, no-code, call it what you want. “AI” coding tools are likely being used to produce a good majority of software today. And for good reason as they have come a long way in a short time. A popular article written this week titled Claude Code is a Slot...
Eric Bailey
Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a...
5th Nov 2025
I was kindly approached by Fable with an offer to evaluate their new pay-per-project model. It is a project-based option for accessibility practitioners, champions, and product teams that delivers quick feedback from disabled people who use assistive technology.
This service...
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first...
22nd Jan 2023
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,...
Liz Denys
Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
6th Jan 2024
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem:
Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
Irrational...
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization.
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about...
20th May 2023
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about measuring engineering organizations.
This talk was essentially this blog post,
and here are the slides.
A few topics worth highlighting:
Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
A Smart Bear
Strategic choices: When both options are good
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
15th Aug 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I...
26th Aug 2023
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes
below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses.
About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is
without the seat...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Pride Flags
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
6th Jun 2023
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️🌈
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
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...
Ink & Switch
The Object Model in Livelymerge
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
7th Aug 2026
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
A small freedom area...
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote
an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote
an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the
whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with
the field.
We will look at 4 demos:...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking...
1st May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking forward to spending the next three weeks without travel. I am currently immersed in the developme...
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
1st Sep 2020
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A
wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
28th Aug 2024
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A
wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes.
And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well
built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Name Things
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Digging into git commit templates
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more
months might as well have been...
21st May 2025
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more
months might as well have been written by someone else.
– Eagleson’s Law
After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but
someone removed it. Their full commit message read:
Remove config. Don't bring...
Buttondown's blog
Dashboard and Archives downtime
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
2 weeks ago
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle.
Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024
During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
Sometimes It Works...
Breaking the Chain
Breaking the Chain
Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your...
3rd May 2018
Breaking the Chain
Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application
Requirements
Problems
Solutions
Explicitly store the current Builder in the model
Results
¶Breaking the Chain
¶Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application
I’ve got to admit I’ve...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
16th Mar 2024
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Intro to Vim Talk
I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
16th Jan 2014
I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
Joel Gascoigne
My morning routine as a remote CEO and why it’s always changing
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Working remotely and having the opportunity to...
21st May 2018
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Working remotely and having the opportunity to work from home, coffee shops, coworking spaces, or wherever else I might feel the most productive, means that I can design my own mornings because they don’t necessarily need to be...
rss — Darek Kay
Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers
Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web...
22nd Feb 2021
Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web server logs.
Let's filter the logs for the RSS file names (in my case it's atom.xml and feed.json):
cat access.log | grep -e atom.xml -e feed.json
When looking through my logs,...
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
14th Apr 2023
Remains of the Day
What I learned from a Taipei alley
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy...
15th May 2018
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2024
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple...
1st May 2024
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple weeks away. It’s been a good April. glhf.
bt RSS Feed
Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
6th Aug 2024
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Making software...
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Blog of Simple...
Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit
7th Jan 2024
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...
26th Apr 2025
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...
elementary Blog
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
5th Aug 2023
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible...
4th Aug 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I’m excited for the next one!
Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
2nd Oct 2023
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects.
Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience.
In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code.
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
8th Jul 2023
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches!
Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023)
Read the post here.
11th Jul 2023
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
22nd Apr 2023
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
12th Jan 2025
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
16th May 2016
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a
simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence
of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other
meshes as well, although that is presently...
bt RSS Feed
CSS Slope Graphs
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
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...
Steve Klabnik
Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
21st Dec 2025
A Smart Bear
If you build it, they won't come, unless…
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt...
11th Oct 2010
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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
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.
Acko.net
Curvature Beziers
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
...
15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
{left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true},
{left: "$", right: "$", display: false},
]});
});
Improving on a timeless recipe
The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
Steve Klabnik
The culture war at the heart of open source
26th May 2019
Engineer’s Codex
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer
How Fireship wins YouTube
9th Oct 2024
How Fireship wins YouTube
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
Ferd.ca
The Review Is the Action Item
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
30th May 2024
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen.
This is not surprising advice if...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create microfrontends with Web Components in React
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams...
7th Jan 2021
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA.
It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
TokyoDev
Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05
[Tokyo Ruby Kaigi...
Sedimental
Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an
unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an
unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a
prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being
brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite,
I had a great time in the...
David Crawshaw
Eight more months of agents
Eight more months of agents
2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated...
8th Feb 2026
Eight more months of agents
2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated it for the world of agents . A lot has changed since then, so here is an update.a bit over a year agoeight months ago
We were prototyping our first agent, Sketch, when Claude Code...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Apr 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in March - Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website. - Wrote Agent experience abo...
Tony Finch's blog
My wireguard IPv6 tunnel
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
30th Apr 2024
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several
misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to
setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel
between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private
server.
There were a few, um, learning...
the singularity is...
Tech Heroin
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
7th Jan 2024
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine.
Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine.
I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress.
I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
charity.wtf
DevOps vs SRE: delayed coverage of the dumbest war
Last week was the West Coast Velocity conference. I had a terrific time — I think it’s the best...
30th Jun 2016
Last week was the West Coast Velocity conference. I had a terrific time — I think it’s the best Velocity I’ve been to yet. I also slipped in quite late, the evening before last, to catch Gareth’s session on DevOps vs SRE. I had to catch it, because Gareth Rushgrove (of DevOps...
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
27th Jun 2014
When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation.
But all bets are off as soon as I...
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back!
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
11th Jan 2021
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
Sebastian Witowski
5 Ways of Debugging with IPython
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am...
23rd Dec 2019
There is a great article from Tenderlove - one of the core Ruby and Rails developers - called "I am a puts debuggerer", that I enjoyed when I played with Ruby. The gist of it is to show you that, in many cases, you don't need a full-fledged debugger. Don't get me (or Tenderlove)...
Buttondown's blog
Granular tracking settings
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
6th Feb 2022
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
Charles Petzold
AI-Supercharged Phishing Emails
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and...
3 weeks ago
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and other blunders. Now that scammers are apparently using AI to aid in their phishing emails, the tells are more subtle. ... more ...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Offline spellcheck
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using
Google as spellcheck.
I am embarrassingly...
14th Aug 2017
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using
Google as spellcheck.
I am embarrassingly atrocious at spelling. In Vim, which I use for
email via Mutt, I can use :set spell. In Emacs I can use
flyspell-mode. Browsers all have spellcheck now, seemingly.
Still… sometimes I...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful...
21st Nov 2023
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb...
Sometimes It Works...
4 Years In
4 Years In
What lies ahead
¶4 Years In
I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already!
I can’t quite believe...
13th Feb 2021
4 Years In
What lies ahead
¶4 Years In
I’ve been at Elvie 4 years already!
I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has gone by or the amazing things we’ve accomplished as a team.
2020 was by far the hardest year, but in many ways the most rewarding and exciting so far because...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Jordan Eldredge's...
SFSU Chamber Singers sing for ACDA
A video of my choir singing at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, California.
2nd Mar 2008
A video of my choir singing at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, California.
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
Marc Astbury
Annual Review 2024
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the...
4th Jan 2025
Last year I was grateful to write my review whilst sitting outside a cafe in Dali, embracing the cool 15 degree climate. This year, I’m in freezing cold Sapporo drinking a carton of the delicious local milk. For simplicity, I’m largely sticking to the format from my 2023 annual...
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
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...
the singularity is...
Computer Use Models
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line.
I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
15th Sep 2023
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Halloween Nerd Projects 👻
Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house.
Candy, yo!
The previous year it was 194. The...
30th Oct 2018
Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house.
Candy, yo!
The previous year it was 194. The year before that it was 176. The
year before that I lived in a duplex that was roughly two blocks from my
current house; that year I didn’t think to track how many
trick-or-treaters...
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
11th Nov 2016
David Gerrells
how to make a game engine
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
Quentin Santos
My first PCB: AIC3204 eval board
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the...
a week ago
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the (TLV320)DAC3100 audio chip. “DAC” stands for “Digital-to-Analog Conversion”; that is, it takes some audio signal (here, I²S) and converts it to the analog equivalent (differential for speakers,...
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
6th Jul 2021
Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by...
20th Mar 2023
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning.
I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need"
I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
The Codist
What Is Software Quality?
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
31st Mar 2025
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it?
This is the longest single blog post I have ever written.
I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Of Git Commits, GitHub, and Gerrit
Impassioned ranting about the format of commit messages1
often feels like cringe-inducing...
11th Mar 2019
Impassioned ranting about the format of commit messages1
often feels like cringe-inducing gatekeeping. Many times such rants seem
to be written using language both bombastic and bellicose – the message
is: fuck off if you don’t agree.
The fact that the authors of many of these...
TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
21st Nov 2023
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2025
The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various...
30th Apr 2025
The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various reasons I think this is sufficient for someone to guess at least the type of ware this came from, if not the exact make/model. There’s a particularly interesting bit about this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds
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2nd Dec 2017
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan.
You disrupt the government by...
4th Nov 2023
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan.
You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides.
The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
Sedimental
Announcing the Hatnote Top 100
Originally published on the Hatnote blog.
Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog.
Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around
knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's
important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run
encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
Eric Bailey
Organizing a design system via folksonomy
Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way.
By this, I mean its...
15th May 2025
Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way.
By this, I mean its maintainers decide on categories of content, and then how that content is ordered. This is done as a calculated bet to best serve the known and unknown audiences who consume the design...
Maggie Appleton
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
30th May 2024
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
Philip I. Thomas
Buyers define marketplaces
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
Liz Denys
Knitted curtain tiebacks
I wanted curtain tiebacks that were functional for my curtains hung inside window frames, but...
21st Nov 2020
I wanted curtain tiebacks that were functional for my curtains hung inside window frames, but unfortuantely, the current trends are designed around curtains mounted outside window frames with large, bulky metal tiebacks - not so great for my craftsman framed windows in tiny NYC...
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
1st Jun 2021
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Daniel Marino
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
19th Feb 2022
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out!
Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
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
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.
Ferd.ca
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at...
15th Dec 2022
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
7th May 2024
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites.
AWS Certficate Manager
I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
11th Dec 2018
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my weather at home 🌩️
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever,
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my...
19th Feb 2023
Davis Vantage Wireless Console/Reciever,
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2, RTC module—the heart of my weather
center
Despite their best efforts, all weather apps will eventually lie.
Weather is often hyper-local. For example, trying to suss out the
temperature this...
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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...
15th Nov 2016
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...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah....
1st Dec 2023
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah. The fresh air was nice, AQI here in Northern Utah is 100+ right now… wouldn’t recommend. Anyway, back to coding.
Basta’s Notes
The imminent risk of vibe coding
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
Oxide Computer...
Benefits as a Reflection of Values
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
20th Apr 2022
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses.
What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
MMapped blog
Rust at scale: packages, crates, and modules
20th Jan 2022
A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform...
11th Dec 2022
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn
Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is.
But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
Daniel Immke
Building a new personal website
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience...
15th Feb 2021
Yesterday I launched a new version of this website. When finishing big projects, I always experience this odd phenomenon where the final…
charity.wtf
Bring Back Ops Pride
"Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code....
19th Jan 2026
"Operations" is not a dirty word, a synonym for toil, or a title for people who can't write code. May those who shit on ops get the operational outcomes they deserve.
the jsomers.net blog
The best general advice on earth
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
26th Jul 2012
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Knowledge Laundering
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
2nd Aug 2023
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me:
Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
Boot.dev Blog
What is Backend Web Development?
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of...
7th Aug 2023
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications. It primarily focuses on handling the logic, data processing, and communication between the user’s web browser and the server.
Making software...
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won't go into the post's specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
Confessions of a...
Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
ntietz.com blog -...
You can't always fix it
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
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...
1st Nov 2024
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...
Cognitive...
From Zero to Fineturning with Axolotl on ROCm
Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers!
Few have tried...
11th Mar 2024
Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers!
Few have tried this and fewer have succeeded. I've been marginally successful after a significant amount of effort, so it deserves a blog post.
Know that you are in for rough waters. And even...
Jordan Eldredge's...
no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
7th Oct 2024
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Asus debian jessie install
Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over
Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI
Download Non-free...
8th Jun 2015
Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over
Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI
Download Non-free firmware
Linux
Questions Answer
firmware-iwlwifi
download
Extract firmware from deb
ar xv firmware-iwlwifi.deb tar xvf data.tar.xz
Copy to ext4 formatted sd-card
mkfs.ext4...
Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium
What this runs on
I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog.
It's been many...
31st Jan 2023
What this runs on
I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog.
It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time.
For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
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
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
Buttondown's blog
Referencing subscriber tags in your newsletter
Use tags with templating to customize your emails!
12th Feb 2021
Use tags with templating to customize your emails!
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