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Failure to face the truth This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
9th Apr 2022
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Failure to face the truth

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2022
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
What I'm up to - December 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
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What I'm up to - December 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
how to make a game engine Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure...
20th Dec 2025
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how to make a game engine

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure manmade code. How hard can it be?
Why Are People Still Using C? C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
2nd Aug 2023
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Why Are People Still Using C?

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2023
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C. I first learned C in
[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
1st Apr 2025
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[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time) This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd...
3 weeks ago
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I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time)

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
This is a transcript from a talk I gave at the German Perl Workshop earlier this year. If you'd prefer to watch the video recording, you can find it here. I have lots of photographic projects on the go. Lots of these being on film, as some of these I started shooting a long...
Will AI kill SaaS helpdesks? Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ...
12th Jan 2026
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Will AI kill SaaS helpdesks?

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jan 2026
Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ and canned responses and let it answer tickets - right? I (obviously) gave it a lot of thought recently and here's my take: If your entire support operation is one person...
The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
26th May 2026
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The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th May 2026
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
10th Apr 2025
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Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
15th Aug 2022
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How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2022
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
27th Apr 2019
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Clip sharing with Overcast

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2019
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
2nd Feb 2024
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Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2024
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who...
24th Nov 2025
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
18th Jan 2022
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The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live!

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2022
In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or...
15th Jan 2023
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15th Jan 2023
On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. – Google, Project Jigsaw Thu, 19 Aug 2021 @EmilyKager & @[email protected] I didn’t expect to learn...
#17 inaccessible cards Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> ...
14th Mar 2020
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#17 inaccessible cards

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2020
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text. Bad code <section> <section> <h2>Overview</h2> <figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)"> <figcaption> <h4>My heading</h4> ...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2017
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
GNU Autotools Links https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install configure.ac Writte...
25th May 2016
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GNU Autotools

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th May 2016
Links https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install configure.ac Written in m4sh (m4 + shell) Program initialization: AC_INIT macro—needs name, version, maintainer Initialize automake: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE Make sure that C-compiler exists:...
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
9th Jul 2024
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What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2024
Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
18th Mar 2020
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2020
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
19th Jan 2021
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Array 1.20.0

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2021
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my...
5 days ago
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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 days ago
Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about...
19th Nov 2024
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There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2024
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on November 19th, 2024 We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all...
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
14th Apr 2020
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Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2020
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
CSS Video Backgrounds CSS Video Backgrounds 2018-04-16 With the release of Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3,...
16th Apr 2018
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CSS Video Backgrounds

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Apr 2018
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:...
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
14th Oct 2014
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Oct 2014
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large...
18th May 2024
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Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2024
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
12th Aug 2024
The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1 The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
1st May 2022
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The Boomer .NET Dev Skill Upgrade Guide — Part 1

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2022
The first part of my guide for how .NET developers need to re-orient in the modern dev landscape.
1st Aug 2026
Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
23rd Mar 2025
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Occlusion with Bells On

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2025
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a...
23rd Dec 2024
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JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Dec 2024
Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?
2025 Advice to my old selves I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
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2025 Advice to my old selves

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
IPython Startup Files In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We...
4th Jan 2019
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IPython Startup Files

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2019
In one of the companies where I worked, I was a part of a pretty small team of five developers. We had a support rota, so each week, one of us was responsible for handling tickets from users. Apart from requesting new features, users often asked for changes in the system that...
1st Jun 2010
What happened to the comment section? In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like...
11th Nov 2025
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What happened to the comment section?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2025
In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod, Open […] The post What happened to the comment section? appeared first on The History of the Web.
What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
12th Sep 2026
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2026
What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
2nd Apr 2023
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2023
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
The GPU Banana Stand Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my...
20th Jul 2022
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The GPU Banana Stand

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2022
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library. This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big...
6th Jun 2023
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
AmigaGuide Reference Library As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k...
30th Jun 2025
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AmigaGuide Reference Library

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jun 2025
As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total noob-like C flailing around), I’ve made heavy use of documentation in the AmigaGuide format. Despite it’s age, it’s a great Amiga-native...
Making games in Go with Ebitengine Like a lot of people, you may be using Go at work to develop backend applications or create...
6th Jan 2026
1

Making games in Go with Ebitengine

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2026
Like a lot of people, you may be using Go at work to develop backend applications or create infrastructure tools. But you may not be aware that you can actually make video games in Go using Ebitengine. gomding Just enough to make games Ebitengine aims at being dead simple. It...
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
15th Mar 2019
Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
16th Mar 2011
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2011
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems 2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at...
15th Dec 2022
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The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2022
2022/12/15 The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
23rd Nov 2021
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Nov 2021
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
Prevent data loss on page refresh It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click...
1st Oct 2024
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Prevent data loss on page refresh

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2024
It can be frustrating to fill out a web form, only to accidentally refresh the page (or click "back") and lose all the hard work. In this blog post, I present a method to retain form data when the page is reloaded, which improves the user experience. Browser behavior Most...
Twenty Years of Guild Wars So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
30th Apr 2025
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Twenty Years of Guild Wars

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2025
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
2nd Dec 2021
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Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2021
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
1st Jun 2019
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2019
Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
3rd Jun 2026
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Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2026
A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
Forty-two I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
26th Oct 2022
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Forty-two

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Oct 2022
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
Toto C5 Washlet power usage I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I...
26th Aug 2023
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Toto C5 Washlet power usage

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Aug 2023
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses. About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is without the seat...
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
7th Feb 2024
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Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2024
Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
A quick hop across the southern border Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
16th Mar 2012
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A quick hop across the southern border

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2012
Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
The systemic decay of tech hiring Complaining about tech interviews is the favorite pastime of software engineers. We know they're...
22nd Jun 2026
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The systemic decay of tech hiring

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2026
Complaining about tech interviews is the favorite pastime of software engineers. We know they're broken, we've seen exactly how they're broken, but, despite a decade of collective hand-waving, we haven't fixed them. In fact, we haven't even understood why they're broken:...
On the Security of AES in HomeMatic HomeMatic is a line of home automation devices that are popular in Germany and use a proprietary...
15th Sep 2015
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On the Security of AES in HomeMatic

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2015
HomeMatic is a line of home automation devices that are popular in Germany and use a proprietary radio protocol (BidCoS, Bidirectional Communication Standard) on a frequency of 868MHz. Some devices allow optional use of “AES signing” for message authentication. When enabled, the...
CSS-Tricks could be a co-op I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
3 weeks ago
-5

CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this. The...
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
thinking around a pen Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
1

thinking around a pen

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child' I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add...
1st Dec 2024
1

Using the ':not()' pseudo-class to remove styles from ':last-child'

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2024
I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links. I needed to add some padding between them, as one does, and was preparing to apply padding to the left of each icon so the final icon on the right remained aligned right. On smaller screens, when...
Haiku Package Management Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
13th Feb 2023
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Haiku Package Management

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8th Apr 2024
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Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2024
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
18th May 2023
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What are passkeys?

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2023
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
Early simulations with GravityLoops <![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...
13th Jul 2026
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Early simulations with GravityLoops

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jul 2026
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen. The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
20th Feb 2024
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Moore's Scofflaws

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2024
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
What I’m Using in 2026 This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
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What I’m Using in 2026

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list. Applications Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were subscribed on email!), I started a separate AI...
30th Dec 2022
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2022
For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were subscribed on email!), I started a separate AI blog, L-space Diaries, this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2) create a focused feed on a topic rather than a person (I also started DX Tips for devtools/devrel writing,...
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4) This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time...
1st Jun 2019
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ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4)

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2019
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time to share my opinion about using Reason to create React applications. Access Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Though, my opinion shouldn't really matter if you're also...
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use...
14th Jul 2021
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A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2021
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use cases are somehow different and special. Somehow, the thinking becomes “our UI component is different because we deal with healthcare/banking/taxes/etc.” The opposite, however, is...
Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms When working with floats, we tend to reuse the more familiar integer arithmetic patterns. More...
a week ago
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Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
When working with floats, we tend to reuse the more familiar integer arithmetic patterns. More specifically, we always try to prevent a disaster rather than reacting to it. I keep noticing this pattern over and over again, and seeing that LLMs still get it wrong most of the time...
How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them to the end - the following advice is what I strongly...
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
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Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer Seven weeks down, five weeks to go! It's flying by quickly. On the one hand, I want it to last...
4th Nov 2022
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RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
Seven weeks down, five weeks to go! It's flying by quickly. On the one hand, I want it to last forever. On the other hand, I know it can't, and I'm looking forward to talking to coworkers again at my day job when I go back. RC has given me a renewed appreciation for what I get at...
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
21st Apr 2023
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Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Apr 2023
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
Kagi Small Web As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
7th Sep 2023
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Kagi Small Web

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2023
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
9th Dec 2023
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Generative Art on a Round TFT Display

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2023
I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy...
2nd Nov 2024
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Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2024
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing...
How to Manifest a Meetup This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for...
15th Jul 2022
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How to Manifest a Meetup

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jul 2022
This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for Thursday night. So I [tweeted out an invite](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1546219659195826178):
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Adding auto-generated cover images to EPUBs downloaded from AO3 I was chatting with a friend recently, and she mentioned an annoyance when reading fanfiction on her...
1st Feb 2025
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Adding auto-generated cover images to EPUBs downloaded from AO3

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2025
I was chatting with a friend recently, and she mentioned an annoyance when reading fanfiction on her iPad. She downloads fic from AO3 as EPUB files, and reads it in the Kindle app – but the files don’t have a cover image, and so the preview thumbnails aren’t very readable: ...
Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of...
5th May 2022
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Building a Random Music Sequencer with Preact

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th May 2022
As I've composed music for video games, something that has piqued my interest is the concept of randomly generating music. Not that this is a new concept, but I was curious to see what I could come up with. Go ahead and check out the RMG-2021. Design I love how sequencers look...
Feeling like a fraud while doing startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any...
3rd Dec 2012
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Feeling like a fraud while doing startups

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Before I had any success with Buffer, I helped many startups with their ideas. I attended events, spoke at events and even created my own meetup for startups. These were not particularly big...
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
15th Oct 2020
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Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2020
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
8th May 2022
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Merlin Bird Sound ID

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2022
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Convergence Is Not Enough Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
27th Jul 2026
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Convergence Is Not Enough

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jul 2026
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
5th Jul 2023
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My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2023
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
1st Jun 2019
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2019
Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
Maybe not so much with the "optimization" In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization"

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
Why developers hate being interrupted I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
8th Jan 2015
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Why developers hate being interrupted

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2015
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise. One...
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
5th May 2020
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We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th May 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
Thoughts on being a good manager Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
9th Feb 2015
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Thoughts on being a good manager

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2015
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment Why we need collaborative AI engineering
13th Apr 2026
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2026
Why we need collaborative AI engineering
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
3rd Oct 2020
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A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2020
A discipline at the intersection of cultural anthropology and binary logic
Recently A section of trail in Switzerland May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake...
4th Jun 2026
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2026
A section of trail in Switzerland May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake Konstanz, passing through Konstanz, Bregenz Austria, Stein am Rhein in Switzerland, and Meersburg. A farm in Bodenseeufer, Germany We passed a lot of operating agriculture,...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
28th Jun 2023
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Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jun 2023
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
Winner, Name that Ware December 2025 The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how...
31st Jan 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2025

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2026
The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how quickly this was guessed given the very small portion of the instrument that was shown, but, then again – that’s how it goes sometimes. Congrats to johslarsen for nailing this one;...
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
12th Jul 2024
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Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2024
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection model.
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
18th Jul 2022
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#32 almost a proper close button

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2022
Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2020
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Go: Functional options are slow The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a...
23rd May 2022
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Go: Functional options are slow

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd May 2022
The Go "functional options" pattern is a way of passing options to a function. The function takes a variable number of arguments, which are themselves functions (a type like ...func(*config). I think it was first introduced by Rob Pike in a 2014 blog post. It is now used by many...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
20th Mar 2023
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Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Mar 2023
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
12th Sep 2021
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Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2021
Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
14th Jul 2017
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Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2017
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently. After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
Good advice on JSX conditionals Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
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Good advice on JSX conditionals

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead: condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy, condition ?...
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
3rd Nov 2024
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Recently: Cycling and Autumn

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2024
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
📈 The Toxic Grind There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
6th Jun 2022
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📈 The Toxic Grind

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2022
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Cool Facts about Cuttlefish This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short...
15th Jan 2019
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Cool Facts about Cuttlefish

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jan 2019
This was just a short rant I prepared for Netlify's Allhands where we were asked to give a short lightning talk on any topic we wished. I picked cuttles. I actually saw one in real life diving in Fiji once!
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
18th May 2023
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Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th May 2023
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024 As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
29th Feb 2024
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2024

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Feb 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
When you don't have chocolate chips... But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate...
12th Mar 2011
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When you don't have chocolate chips...

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2011
But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating...
7th Mar 2016
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Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2016
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating webcams on student laptops1. When they were at home. In their bedrooms. They captured photos while students were in private spaces, where they never expected to be watched. A few days...
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
19th Oct 2020
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How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Oct 2020
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
Web standards are just "minor details" A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
2nd Jul 2007
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Web standards are just "minor details"

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2007
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
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Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
25th Dec 2010
Index Companies Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example,...
18th Dec 2020
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Index Companies

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Dec 2020
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets which were clearly going to compound over time. It might have been tough to call the winners of each market early, but it was clear the markets...
Starting a New Chapter At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
21st Aug 2016
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Starting a New Chapter

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Aug 2016
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas. I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
Buried by the media "No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly,...
5th Sep 2016
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Buried by the media

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2016
"No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly, Jerry Flemmons of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram turned to me and said, 'Cochran, if we're gonna write a story about the burial of Lee Harvey Oswald, we're gonna have to bury the son of...
Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
16th Sep 2021
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Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Sep 2021
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
On Buttons and Links I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
6th Oct 2021
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On Buttons and Links

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Oct 2021
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it. Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component. — Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021 At face value, I understand why...
Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered...
23rd Mar 2022
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Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2022
Here at Oxide, we continue to work on building servers as they should be. Last year, we discovered an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69 (our chosen part for our product’s Root of Trust implementation) that could be used to violate security boundaries. This issue...
Beware The Fallacy of Composition Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
1st Oct 2020
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Beware The Fallacy of Composition

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2020
Many things that make sense individually don't make sense as a group.
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
12th May 2023
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Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th May 2023
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
Toward a More Useful X Keyboard I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend as much time as necessary...
23rd Jan 2015
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Toward a More Useful X Keyboard

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2015
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend as much time as necessary perfecting my keyboard configuration. It’s one of those things that you know you can make absolutely perfect—given enough time and energy. On Linux, when you spend enough time bashing...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
9th Mar 2023
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2023
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session. Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense. This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB. What is...
27th Mar 2026
How I Update and Deploy this Site I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and...
5th Sep 2023
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How I Update and Deploy this Site

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2023
I love a good CMS. I don't like how slow they can be to load pages. A sudden spike in traffic and even a rapid CMS can cause an unprepared server to grind to a halt. I used to love running my own servers, but I don't have the time to do it for my personal site - I just want it to...
Why I crave mistakes I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas]...
3rd Jun 2012
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Why I crave mistakes

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2012
I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas] times [https://joel.is/post/23348997538/what-online-gaming-taught-me-about-startups] before [https://joel.is/post/12790799237/achieving-scale-by-doing-things-that-dont-scale] on this blog that I...
Everything I wanted 15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional...
15th Dec 2020
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Everything I wanted

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Dec 2020
15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional high. I'd just spent a few days in Nottingham for New Adventures Conf before escaping to Leeds to saddle myself with a hangover that lasted 3 days(Oh Leeds) after which I spent an...
Advice for marketplace startups Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of...
11th May 2021
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Advice for marketplace startups

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2021
Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of transactions. Some of today's largest companies are marketplaces, such as Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. ...
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
5th Mar 2023
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Build vs Buy: age old dilemma

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2023
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […] The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
25th Apr 2014
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Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Apr 2014
How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
Aqua UI CSS Buttons Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
28th Jun 2016
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Aqua UI CSS Buttons

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jun 2016
Aqua UI CSS Buttons 2016-06-28 Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
How I use the notes field in my password manager I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
4th Jan 2025
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How I use the notes field in my password manager

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2025
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task. I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts. Each...
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
27th Jun 2022
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My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jun 2022
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search ------------------------------------------------------------------- Your collective defense against...
12th Nov 2025
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12th Nov 2025
------------------------------------------------------------------- Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms ------------------------------------------------------------------- We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a...
Coding at work (after a decade away). Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104...
19th Nov 2025
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Coding at work (after a decade away).

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2025
Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104 pull requests, which is slightly over four per week. Many of them are very minimal configuration and documentation tweaks, and none were the hardest or even most time-sensitive task...
Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
8th Apr 2008
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2008
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
26th Jul 2012
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The best general advice on earth

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Jul 2012
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
Asus debian jessie install Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI Download Non-free...
8th Jun 2015
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Asus debian jessie install

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2015
Reboot, hitting F2 over-and-over Turn off Fastboot and Secureboot in UEFI Download Non-free firmware Linux Questions Answer firmware-iwlwifi download Extract firmware from deb ar xv firmware-iwlwifi.deb tar xvf data.tar.xz Copy to ext4 formatted sd-card mkfs.ext4...
Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
21st Dec 2023
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Dispatch 002: Making a new medium and other recaps

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2023
It’s always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
2nd Jan 2024
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Green flags for investable founders

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2024
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv...
13th Sep 2025
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Sep 2025
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible.
Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
6th Jul 2023
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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2023
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....
10th Jun 2025
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2025
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
11th Jun 2015
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Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jun 2015
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" on Eleuke electric ukulele I arranged and recorded Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies' on my new Eleuke electric ukulele.
21st Sep 2010
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Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" on Eleuke electric ukulele

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2010
I arranged and recorded Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies' on my new Eleuke electric ukulele.
is there light at the end of the tunnel Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look...
11th Apr 2022
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is there light at the end of the tunnel

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2022
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? I say yes...or at least sometimes depending on how you look at it.
Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and...
11th Oct 2019
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Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2019
Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and changing your CMS.
Designing a version In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
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Designing a version

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
1st Feb 2021
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2021
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
Jitbit Helpdesk Bot is now in the Microsoft Teams Store Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store:...
8th May 2026
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Jitbit Helpdesk Bot is now in the Microsoft Teams Store

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th May 2026
Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store: Jitbit Helpdesk Bot. Search "Jitbit" in the Teams app store and it's right there - no custom app uploads, no admin-center gymnastics. Unlike our old webhook integration (one-way...
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
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Programmable Notes

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
1st Nov 2023
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Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
Haunt 0.3.0 released Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
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Haunt 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
15th Jun 2023
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Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2023
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
Dispatch 013: ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme, new faces, and a splattering of ink lab notes Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who...
22nd Sep 2025
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22nd Sep 2025
Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who have recently joined our staff. Finally, we’ve got a collection of lab notes about Programmable Ink.
Fuck It, We'll Do It Live How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
24th May 2023
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Fuck It, We'll Do It Live

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2023
How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful. I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
Speed up Laravel tests with database transactions How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
30th May 2014
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Speed up Laravel tests with database transactions

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th May 2014
How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
Gitignore Patterns: What to Ignore and Why Many devs adopt the git add . (yolo, just yeet it all into the commit) workflow. It is fast, simple,...
1st Apr 2026
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Gitignore Patterns: What to Ignore and Why

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2026
Many devs adopt the git add . (yolo, just yeet it all into the commit) workflow. It is fast, simple, and usually correct. But eventually you’ll have files in your repo directory that should never be committed: secrets, generated artifacts, dependency folders, and random local...
Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
1st Apr 2026
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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
The blissful zen of a good side project One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
4th Apr 2025
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The blissful zen of a good side project

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2025
One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
2nd Nov 2024
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High Trust Society

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Nov 2024
I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
10th Feb 2025
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Feb 2025
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
Using Bun.js as a bundler Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s...
17th May 2023
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Using Bun.js as a bundler

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th May 2023
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until today haven’t had a good excuse to use it. (Edit: There’s some good conversation about this post...
Creating space Do less, to create the space to be great.
4th Jan 2026
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Creating space

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2026
Do less, to create the space to be great.
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is the first conformant Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they...
11th Mar 2026
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2026
I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they used to have a useful insights dashboard that let me analyse my power usage. Well, they seem to have removed it so I built a handy dashboard that anyone can use. It’s at...
The Rsync Algorithm in Python I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast – rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable...
10th Jul 2017
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The Rsync Algorithm in Python

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2017
I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast – rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable command-line interface. Its majestic and wonderful efficiency. The depths of its man page, and the heights of its use-cases. Leaving aside the confusing implications of trailing...
Building Custom Elements With a Library I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after...
28th Mar 2024
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Building Custom Elements With a Library

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Mar 2024
I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after years of working with various libraries and tools. Here's why I use it. Libraries offer a better DX # This seems like a selfish answer for a developer to lean on, but there are...
Translate your UI Strings with AI TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM...
10th Oct 2024
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Translate your UI Strings with AI

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2024
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM package. A few months ago I translated KidzFun.art to multiple other languages, using ChatGPT’s AI for the translations. This worked fine when dealing with a blank slate, but I...
Language-Level Toll Roads I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
5th Jul 2023
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Language-Level Toll Roads

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2023
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out. Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample: const kv =...
Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to...
10th Oct 2022
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Managing your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Terraform

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2022
In a previous post, I explained how to manage a Kubernetes cluster with FluxCD. This showed a way to implement a GitOps workflow, which means using a Git repository as the source of truth for the state of your cluster. Flux introduces multiple new objects in your Kubernetes...
What America has meant to me Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
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What America has meant to me

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
So why write a blog? I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
1st Sep 2017
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So why write a blog?

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2017
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
I'm doing another Recurse Center batch! Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably...
6th Nov 2020
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I'm doing another Recurse Center batch!

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2020
Hello! I’m going to do a batch (virtually) at the Recurse Center, starting on Monday. I’ll probably be blogging about what I learn there, so I want to talk a bit about my plans! I’m excited about this because: I love RC, it’s my favourite programming community, and I’ve always...
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