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Dan Slimmon
Post-mortems: content over structure The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected...
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The value of post-mortems is apparent: failures present opportunities to learn about unexpected behaviors of the system, and learning lets us make improvements to the system’s reliability. The value of post-mortem documents is much less apparent. Many R&D orgs will insist that...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
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Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware August 2023 The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U....
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a year ago
The Ware for August 2023 is a viewfinder from a JVC Super VHS Camcorder, model number GR-SXM915U. I’ll give the prize to Jin because of the correct identification of the SOIC as the BA7149F. Congrats, email me for your prize! The exact model number of the originating camera...
Ferd.ca
Counting Forest Fires 2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
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2024/01/26 Counting Forest Fires Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Treating the Symptoms If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app...
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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app called “Arc Search”. Its key feature? It’ll browse the web for you. What happened? “Surfing the web” used to be — and still can be — the funnest part about being on the web! How did...
Eric Bailey
Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of...
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I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of nowhere and was done without my permission or consent. I have a lot of ethical issues with contemporary AI productization, notably notions around consent, ownership, and environment....
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Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS the full text of my State of JS writeup!
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Sweden declares Google Analytics illegal
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
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Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
David Heinemeier...
HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone! Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the...
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Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the defining moments of my career. It was the kind of test that calls you to account for what you believe and asks what you're willing to risk to see it through. Well, we risked...
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
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Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
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> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
Basta’s Notes
What I have been so busy with How I built a website that lots of you will probably hate
a year ago
Eric Bailey
Tailwind versus BEM
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
The road to 1 Million ARR - September Update
a year ago
37signals Dev
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
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As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution. We store different kinds of information on S3,...
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Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Design Patterns An honest primer
6 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023 The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
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The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
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....
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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...
Eric Bailey
Your CSS is an interface My partner is learning Japanese using the Duolingo app. They’ve been dutifully opening the app and...
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My partner is learning Japanese using the Duolingo app. They’ve been dutifully opening the app and doing daily challenges for over 400 days now. A few days ago, they shared this screenshot with me: If I could wager a guess, it looks like there was a bug with dark mode color logic...
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
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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...
Making software...
Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
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Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
bt RSS Feed
My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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over a year ago
My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
over a year ago
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
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This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
Sometimes It Works...
No No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website...
over a year ago
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No ¶No Hi, We are looking for a Sponsored post written by you to match your website builtwithbootstrap.com. The post would need to contain a minimum of 2 paragraphs relating to online casinos and a link to one of our client’s websites. We can pay directly into your paypal account...
Liz Denys
An update on Keybase verification Keybase updated their verification methods to include a command line method that relies on echo,...
over a year ago
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Keybase updated their verification methods to include a command line method that relies on echo, gpg, perl, and curl. I really like this so-called "hardcore mode" because it uses only tools I already trust - I don't have to install anything from Keybase. The process involves...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
HTMHell
#31 additional “assistance” Bad code <a href="/contact" aria-label="If you find that you need additional assistance in...
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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...
Ink & Switch
05 · Edit groups “Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their...
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“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their collaboration, and avoid needless ceremony.
Blog System/5
Picking glibc versions at runtime Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of...
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Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's take a look at how dynamic linking works and what the options are.
Eric Bailey
Stanislav Petrov A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on...
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A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on September 26th, 1983. His name was Stanislav Petrov. Protocol dictated that the Soviet Union would retaliate against any nuclear strikes sent by the United States. This was a policy...
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping. The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of...
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The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter. Of the three core strategy refinement techniques, this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least. Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it highlights how...
Steve Klabnik
I got hit by a car today
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this...
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In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do less of it: names < pointers < labels < bytes Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
Renegade Otter
Your database skills are not ‘good to have’ A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search...
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A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was one of those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-01 "It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
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"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash." www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
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We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
David Heinemeier...
We'll always need junior programmers We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're...
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We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're going through all of them by hand and by human. No AI screening here. It's a lot of work, but we have a great team who take the work seriously, so in a few weeks, we'll be able to...
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics and Consent
a year ago
Making software...
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
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Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
A Beautiful Site
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
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In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
Yale E360
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!" A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The...
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A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here. Hey Nicole! At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
David Heinemeier...
The Year on Linux I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or...
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I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...
Contraption Co.
Is fractional work the future? A conversation with Taylor Crane
10 months ago
HTMHell
Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
a year ago
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by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals. In this blog post, I'll guide you...
Maggie Appleton
Problematic Proteins How to offend everyone with boundary-crossing steak and nuggets
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
On benchmarking
over a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Remembering Charles Beeler We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away...
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We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon; he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both. Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
HTMHell
The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account by Jason Cranford Teague Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024 Note: HTML standards are developed...
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by Jason Cranford Teague Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024 Note: HTML standards are developed first in browsers, so the version might have already became the de facto standard before the official standard document is released. The story so far: In the beginning Tim...
Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip) Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
Seldo.com
What is good code?
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure...
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Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon...
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5 essential PostHog apps for new users PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
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PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
A Beautiful Site
A Web Component Story Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a...
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Gather 'round, it's story time. A number of years ago, I was hired by a company to rebuild a component library for their design system. The one they were replacing was built with AngularJS, but AngularJS was old and rickety and nobody wanted to use it anymore. Plus, many teams...
HTMHell
Grouping form fields by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
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by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
Ink & Switch
Ambsheets 02 · Filtering scenarios Using spreadsheet formulas to choose scenarios to focus on
4 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Improving Receipt UX Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
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Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further. What was the...
TokyoDev
Helping Japanese companies build global engineering teams TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building...
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TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building English-speaking engineering teams. This is our first step towards our goal of helping these companies internationalize their engineering departments, which will allow them to take...
Joel Gascoigne
Questions I ask myself about working as distributed team * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a CEO I often ponder how I can help the team be as productive and happy as possible. As part of our decision to be a distributed team at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], there have been a number...
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
over a year ago
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How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
ByteofDev
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling....
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While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
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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...
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Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
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Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
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It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
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When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
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Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
over a year ago
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
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Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Liz Denys
Burnout from unappreciated, unpaid diversity work A little over a week ago, an unnecessary dick joke was sent to a mailing list I'm on. It's a mailing...
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over a year ago
A little over a week ago, an unnecessary dick joke was sent to a mailing list I'm on. It's a mailing list related to a conference I go to, and the joke added absolutely no value to the conversation. Another young woman and I criticized this behavior, citing how it pushes women...
The Codist
How I Defeated An MMO Game Hack Author In the late 2000's, I worked at a niche MMO game company. We had a small team, not a lot of money,...
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In the late 2000's, I worked at a niche MMO game company. We had a small team, not a lot of money, but a loyal audience. It was a game of skill without any of the usual powerups and unreality, and the players enjoyed the challenge. Then, one
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
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The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Errors Aren’t All Bad Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which...
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Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which seems like one of those obvious things that needn’t be said, but I’m glad he says it. Have you heard of the “error prevention” heuristic? It means “do everything you can so users...
tonsky.me
When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
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2 months ago
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
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by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
Irrational...
How to provide feedback on documents. At Carta, we recently ran a reading group for Facilitating Software Architecture by Andrew...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
At Carta, we recently ran a reading group for Facilitating Software Architecture by Andrew Harmel-Law. We already loosely followed the ideas of an architectural advice process (from this 2021 article by the same Andrew Harmel-Law), but in practice we found that internal tech spec...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
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over a year ago
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
Epic Web Dev
Anatomy of a Test (article) Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal...
a year ago
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a year ago
Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal three-step structure: Setup, Action, and Assertion.
Irrational...
How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
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One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
macwright.com
Recently We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The...
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a year ago
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
Sometimes It Works...
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I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve had a fascinating journey with Buffer, and having started in the UK and living in San Francisco for 6 months, I’ve also had the opportunity in just the last year to spend time in Hong Kong,...
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I joked on Mastodon: If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a great suggestion for the title: “Enabled by Default” It seems there really are two hard problems in tech: Naming things Setting good defaults Keeping to scope Anyhow, a little while...
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First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
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When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
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Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
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There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. We could have used that today! But unfortunately...
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Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
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by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It’s not just about correcting a single mistake; it’s...
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Vlad Prelovac is the CEO of Kagi: a search engine you have to pay for. He’s on episode 416 of John Gruber’s The Talk Show to discuss why he thinks we should be paying for search. Hearing his point of view is compelling. I quite enjoyed the entire podcast. So much, in fact, that I...
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My 2023 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
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This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror, but wanted it to work with JSX elements, not just functions and control flow statements. It’s not enough to justify a module of its own because CodeMirror’s API is unbelievably...
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Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few of the things I worked on this year. a zine! I published How Integers and Floats Work, which I worked on with Marie. This one started out its life as “how your computer represents things in memory”, but...
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Simon Shares I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.
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This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have knowledge of basic document flow. Absolute Position position: absolute elements are removed from the normal document flow and will be positioned relative to their next parent with...
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Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
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For whatever reason I started blogging again last week. Not knowing why isn’t due to a lack of introspection on my part. Maybe the nauseating weight of the Trump administration was suppressing my desire to write for the previous three-and-a-half years? Or maybe I’m just arbitrary...
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I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows is summation of my note-taking from watching the talk on YouTube. Is what you’re building for future generations: Useful for them? Maintainable by them? Adaptable by...
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Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting “Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
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“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be. ...
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The last time I wrote a “year in review” post was 2017, and before that in 2012. Reading my old writing is nostalgic and horrific. By the numbers, 2023 was pretty normal: I read around 20 books, ran around 400 miles. It’s funny how the statistics even out to the same numbers...
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Dispatch 003: OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we’re spotlighting Alexander Obenauer’s work on the future of personal computing...
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In this dispatch we’re spotlighting Alexander Obenauer’s work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
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Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
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Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
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When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
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box-sizing: border-box explained It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
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It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer. The good ol' days # You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
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The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
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This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites. JPEG # JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
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Kinda a big announcement The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I...
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The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
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You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems. You dislike meetings and ceremony. Here’s what you can do to maximize what you like and minimize what you don’t: radiate information. The daily standup meetings that Scrum...
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Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts Using a New Domain and Switching Static Hosts 2021-11-25 As you can most likely tell by looking at...
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Text with media background: practical solutions Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard...
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Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard to read and cause accessibility and usability issues. Designers might not catch these problems early on because they use ideal settings to test designs. The real problems show up...
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It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning, and pumpkin spice lattes are abundant. Being a coffee fan, I caved about a year ago and bought pumpkin spice latte syrup. It made for a delicious replica of the coffee shop classic,...
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Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
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It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
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How to make an ineffective 404 page 404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to...
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404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to say this: 404s are a last-ditch effort to help visitors get what they want if a webpage isn’t there anymore. There’s plenty of articles out there about how to make entertaining,...
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Finding your North Star metric and why it matters Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying...
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Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying what many refer to as a 'North Star' metric. This…
somenice
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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...
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The Yoto Mini is Perfect The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
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The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package. I have no affiliation with Yoto, I’m just a happy customer with kids who love it. If you aren’t aware, Yoto...
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Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
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What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust? I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with...
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I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers. Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory. The difference between...
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Want to be successful? Be inconsistent * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t your usual advice, and I found it...
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#17 inaccessible cards Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> ...
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Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
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Figma for developers: all you need to know If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This...
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If you're a frontend developer, you are probably spending as much time on VS Code as on Figma. This quick read highlights some of the goodies that I personally use to speed up my workflow. A word of caution
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How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
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Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
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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...
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Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
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It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
A Beautiful Site
Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but...
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I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. The weird thing is that it wasn't showing up as a broken link (no missing image icon with the infamous red 'X'). Instead, it wasn't showing up at...
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Retention rate vs churn rate: An intro to churn analysis Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of...
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Here's what you need to know about churn rate and retention rate: Churn rate is the percentage of customers who stop using your product during a…
elementary Blog
Big Feature Updates for Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and More As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and...
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As promised, this month brings a bunch of new features including a big new accessibility feature and a major platform improvement. Enjoy this month’s contributions to the upcoming OS 7.1! AppCenter As we work towards our continual goal of better supporting alternative app stores,...
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Aahh… LinkedIn. I’ve been struggling with the platform for years. One the one hand, I’ve made some great connections on there, and it has helped me tremendously in increasing my visibility, or, as I sometimes put it, as a platform for shameless self-promotion. On the other hand,...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently back in the UK for two weeks and had the chance to speak at an event in London about the incredible journey with my startup in the last two years. When I speak, I try my best
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orlp.net - Blog...
The World's Smallest Hash Table This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are...
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This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
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CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
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CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3, developers now have the ability to support background videos (mp4 support only - at the time of this article) with pure CSS. Example: .video-background { background-image:...
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The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
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The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
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Technical debt, as originally [coined by Ward Cunningham](http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor), is the idea that you can gain a temporary speed boost by rushing software development, at the cost of slowing down future development. This acts like a loan. With a loan,...
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Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
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When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
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I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
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Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m here to propose another: .well-known/avatar The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location. I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a first time startup founder, or have done a few projects but are still working either full-time or freelancing part-time, you are likely to struggle to find investment for your startup...
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In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.
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Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge. I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
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HTML is such a lovely language. Browsers will almost always display something for you, no matter what you put in the HTML document. Heck, you could omit all tags, and it will still work. That’s all nice, but as web professionals, we should aim to write valid code. But even...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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A look at how hundreds of developers got their start in the industry despite not having a Computer Science or Software Engineering degree. We'll sort responses into 6 categories, and detail strategies that you can use to ensure you capture the attention of potential employers!
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The Ware for February 2023 is shown below. Just a small portion of the ware is shown here to make things a bit more challenging. If after a week it turns out to be too hard to guess based on the subtle details included in this image, I’ll add another image to this post with […]
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I saw these going around, but didn’t think I’d ever see myself get tagged — then Eric assuaged my FOMO. As I’ve done elsewhere talking about how I blog, I’m gonna try and impose a character limit to my answers (~240). I’m not sure if that makes my job as the writer easier or...
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Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
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This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
Confessions of a...
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Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer engineers understand how these systems work under the hood.
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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Happy Autumnal Equinox northern hemisphere!This animation was posted 9 years ago to Vimeo using Trapcode Particular.
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The [first pair programming event](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp/events/1777) of Tokyo Rubyist Meetup went event better than I expected it to. The event was hosted at [HatchUp's TechBuzz space](http://www.socialtoprunners.jp/techbuzz/), and started with an introduction to pair...
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Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent: The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by porting...
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Basecamp turns 20 On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve...
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On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We...
macwright.com
Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
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I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
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Why I ditched Google Analytics and Mixpanel for PostHog By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, ...
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By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, Reciprocal.dev , to really understand the value of…
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Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
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Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
Computer Things
You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been...
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Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been to in years. I have a lot of work to catch up on, so this will be a short newsletter. In an earlier version of my talk, I had a gag about unit tests. First I showed the test...
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Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
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Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.  Now you can deploy...
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Approximating pi using... a cake? Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
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Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon. The celebrations have evolved. It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie". Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
bt RSS Feed
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is coding bootcamp better than university? Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and...
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Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and the decision between […] The post Is coding bootcamp better than university? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
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Algorithmic Transparency Algorithms that make their reasoning visible
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Basta’s Notes
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Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
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With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
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I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Steve Klabnik
Why I'm partnering with Balanced
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Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
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Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
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In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Well-crafted grocery lists Inspired by the simple unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery list – Field Notes back inside...
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Inspired by the simple unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery list – Field Notes back inside cover The list. Lists are powerful technology. In his book Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer likens early writing to sheet music for story-telling. Scripto continua had zero...
Elad Blog
AI Regulation There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
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A Beautiful Site
Zipping multiple folders into separate zip files Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into...
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Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
Irrational...
Manage your priorities and energy. Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I...
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Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making...
Max Countryman
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
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Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
Ralph Ammer
David Hume — Why we change our mind How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole...
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How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds. Even scientists keep revising their perspectives. Why is it so difficult...
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
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over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
Computer Things
How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
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Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
bt RSS Feed
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
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A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
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over a year ago
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
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Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
A Beautiful Site
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8 I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
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I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
Irrational...
Team Charters are a trap. I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email...
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I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list” Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p>...
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Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item. The “list”...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
Yale E360
Betraying vim for the IDEs of March vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a...
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vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a different editor. And I did it on March 15th2, the Ides of March. Or is it the IDEs of March? The betrayal happened slowly, then all at once. For the past few weeks I've been ruminating...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
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We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
Blog of Simple...
All about the new Data Transfer Framework
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swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
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Shoelace 2.0: a forward-thinking library of web components I've been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to...
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I've been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to use it to completely redesign Shoelace, an open source project I created a few years ago. I recently published Shoelace 2.0 — a collection of professionally-designed, accessible...
Sometimes It Works...
Autonomy: What it is and what it isn’t Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a...
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Goldilocks Autonomy What it isn’t So what is autonomy? Crossing lines Business leaders don’t have a clue Business leaders want to be too involved in the ‘how’ The agile team want to own the ‘what’ Blurred lines Not too much, not too little — just right The goal ¶Goldilocks...
Blog - Bitfield...
Slow, flaky, and failing Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and...
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5 months ago
Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.
The Changelog
More Topics on Store-And-Forward (Possibly Airgapped) ZFS and Non-ZFS Backups with NNCP Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and...
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Note: this is another article in my series on asynchronous communication in Linux with UUCP and NNCP. In my previous post, I introduced a way to use ZFS backups over NNCP. In this post, I’ll expand on that and also explore non-ZFS backups. Use of nncp-file instead of nncp-exec...
Maggie Appleton
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
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a year ago
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
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...
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a year ago
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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
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over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
Steve Klabnik
Hope
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Towards conceptual generalization in the embedding space (This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a...
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(This is a whitepaper published in the early days of Kagi AI research) A neural network in a self-driving car may properly react in most situations based on billions of images it has seen.
The Pragmatic...
A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave? Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
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over a year ago
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2 A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
a year ago
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a year ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Vadim Kravcenko
Why software projects fail Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Eric Bailey
Tech metaphors Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting: Winchester Mystery House A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive explanation of marching cubes and dual contouring Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how...
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over a year ago
Marching cubes and dual contouring are often used for mesh generation. This explanation shows how they work, what are their differences, similarities, and limitations.
Remains of the Day
The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture “Si vis pacem para bellum” translated “If you want peace, prepare for...
over a year ago
tonsky.me
Logo: Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
2 months ago
Yale E360
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
Irrational...
Notes on How Big Things Get Done How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some...
a year ago
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a year ago
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some megaprojects fail so resoundingly and why others succeed under budget and under schedule. It’s an exploration of planning methods, the role of expertise, the value of benchmarking similar...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few...
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10 months ago
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently. Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
Tony Finch's blog
Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
Joel Gascoigne
How to name your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most frustrating thing about dipping in to the FE is that it seems like literally everything is deprecated. Lol, so true. From the same comment, here’s a description of a day in the life of a...
Alex Meub
Recreating the Windows BSOD I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I...
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over a year ago
I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I found the classic DOS system font and was able recreate a pixel-perfect BSOD image using it. You can see a rendering of the classic BSOD in all it’s pixelated glory here and...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note June 2023: Ink Studies Report This is a summary of what we think are the most salient studies that were done during this period.
over a year ago
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
a year ago
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a year ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
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Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president. While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
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Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
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over a year ago
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
Sometimes It Works...
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that… What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What if we, the consumers, took control of our data completely… what if we all make a stand that forced big tech (and others eventually) to come to us for our data instead of just handing it to them on a plate? If we could do that, then we’d stand to benefit the most from it,...
A Beautiful Site
Is your product the reason your startup is failing? The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very appealing. Perhaps that's why so many people risk doing it. The problem is, many of them don't succeed. There are hundreds of reasons a startup can fail, but let's focus on one for a...
Sometimes It Works...
Laravel Nova Import v0.7 Why Nova? What about Filament? Is a package really necessary? I recently spent a little time on my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why Nova? What about Filament? Is a package really necessary? I recently spent a little time on my Laravel Nova CSV Import package, one of my main open source packages. This came at the request of a sponsor. This gave me the opportunity to level-up some of the UI and spend some...
Steve Klabnik
DayZ
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
Quentin Santos
ViHN: Vim for Hacker News tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
tl;dr: I made ViHN to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox and Chrome. This is about yet another Hacker News extension. But other people with my obsession for killing the mouse might enjoy it. Most of the...
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
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over a year ago
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
bt RSS Feed
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most...
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over a year ago
Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 Box shadow on HTML elements has been widely supported across most browsers for a while now, but I find the default options don’t allow for much visual manipulation of the shadows in general. Let’s take a look at a default configuration of...
HTMHell
You Don't Need ARIA For That In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some nice side effects such as supporting browser "reader" modes, SEO, graceful degradation, and exporting. Implementing semantic HTML will also greatly reduce the need for ARIA...
bt RSS Feed
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Blog - Bitfield...
Bitfield Institute of Technology The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school that offers remote...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school that offers remote training and certifications in Go development to students worldwide.
Blog System/5
Windows NT: Peeking into the cradle A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
a year ago
David Crawshaw
new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
David Heinemeier...
Ears rarely open until a rapport is established It's hard to open cold with a controversial take to a bunch of strangers. And the room is always...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It's hard to open cold with a controversial take to a bunch of strangers. And the room is always cold on X or in a one-off blog post. Just like comedy, half the battle of winning over the audience comes from a solid introduction, good timing, and a broad smile to warm the room....
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
beep.blog
Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
John Gruber asks and answers: Is it outrageous that Apple continues to advertise on Twitter? I say no. But it feels a bit skeevy, and more than a little curious, that they choose to. Is it outrageous? My gut said yes. It's outrageous that Apple would change their