alexwlchan
Generating art from lattice graphs
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the...
13th Sep 2022
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see my sister playing percussion in a brass band at the Proms.
While I was on the train home, I had an idea for a fun art project.
I sketched it out on a napkin, got it working, posted a few pictures on Twitter, then put it down.
On Saturday I was...
Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
Sedimental
Enterprise Software with Python
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a...
22nd Mar 2016
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of
reactions. Some I expected:
Surprise at Python in the enterprise space.
Relief at more attestation of Python's use in the enterprise.
And, as with all the best, a few...
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Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
> note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his...
29th Jun 2024
> note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his side on the logistics and sponsorships but we never got round to it and its been a year and a half so... you get what you get, this brain dump of stuff. sorry. 2025's version is...
Jordan Eldredge's...
[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox
Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public...
19th May 2025
Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public radio program
Boot.dev Blog
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right).
We’ve been working on...
11th Mar 2019
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right).
We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
James Vaughan's blog
Saving $167,000 on Groceries
26th Feb 2018
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10...
1st Sep 2025
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10 implementation for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, a 1970s character based environment that predated the graphical Interlisp-D system.
I approached this corner when I set out to learn and...
Confused bit
Birth of a new blog
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
3rd Jan 2023
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”.
This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Nelson's Weblog
My racism at accents
Interesting NPR segment today: A
powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
17th Dec 2023
Interesting NPR segment today: A
powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on earth.
What’s remarkable is it’s a PhD candidate talking to an NPR host about
solar flares, completely in two Southern Black accents. Two women, at
that.
I am dismayed at my own involuntary...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
DevOps - Bitfield...
Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons Puppet wins
Chef vs. Puppet is an ongoing debate, but here are 10 advantages I believe
Puppet has over...
14th Nov 2018
Chef vs. Puppet is an ongoing debate, but here are 10 advantages I believe
Puppet has over Chef today.
alexwlchan
When square pixels aren’t square
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080...
5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write:
<video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080">
If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky
I regret to inform you…
16th Jun 2009
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site.
I recently added a fairly...
Sebastian Witowski
Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉).
That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
the singularity is...
Critical Trade Theory
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false.
The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
Sedimental
Plugin Systems
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon
Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon
Comparative Plugin Systems BoF.
Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017].
Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular,
there are a lot of...
blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction
a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
2nd Nov 2024
a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
27th Jan 2025
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other frameworks.
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
13th Sep 2021
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest().
// Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element
// that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the
// <body>...
Computer Things
Some notes on for loops
New Blogpost
Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
10th Apr 2024
New Blogpost
Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here.
Some notes on for loops
I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
ntietz.com blog -...
You can't always fix it
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
Eric Bailey
Truths about digital accessibility
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional):
Each screen reader behaves differently
This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives
I've added an
archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the
way back to...
7th Jan 2023
I've added an
archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the
way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for
any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will
have a grey background because I wasn't...
37signals Dev
Navigating personal information with care
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
24th Sep 2023
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
Tinloof - Blog
10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives.
As a...
1st Feb 2023
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives.
As a result, CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) increases, pushing ecommerce business owners to look for more affordable lead generation strategies.
SEO is one of them. Online store...
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
Computer Things
Write the most clever code you possibly can
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
8th May 2025
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead!
New Logic for Programmers release!
v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog
Windows’s win32 API is old and...
10th Apr 2024
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog
Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32.
One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app.
I encountered this in...
Alice GG
Preview Ebitengine shaders with Luluka
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine.
It’s a 2D engine that lets you...
15th May 2026
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine.
It’s a 2D engine that lets you create games using the Go programming language.
To be able to iterate faster on visual effects, I have created a tool that lets me preview shaders: Luluka.
Kage Shaders
For those who...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
7th Mar 2022
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it *could* be worth $100b
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
18th Oct 2008
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship.
In the...
Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
23rd Mar 2025
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Josh Comeau's blog
Chasing the Pixel-Perfect Dream
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really,...
2nd Nov 2020
Is it possible to create an implementation of a design that matches to-the-pixel? Well, not really, but that shouldn't discourage us! In this article, I'll show how I became designers' best friend by leveraging a series of tricks to get my implementation looking...
David Crawshaw
Machining under a microscope
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally."
www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
Irrational...
How to filter out old email from inbox
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my
personal inboxes. There are simply too...
3rd May 2025
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my
personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with,
and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email.
Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
18th Dec 2018
SOS
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
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...
Greg Brockman
My path to OpenAI
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing...
3rd May 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how...
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How To Name Things
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
16th May 2019
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - Leon Bambrick
Eric Bailey
Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently
5th Jun 2020
Eric Bailey
Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much.
Like...
14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much.
Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation.
RSS has its own place in...
somenice
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
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...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
20th Jun 2023
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
TokyoDev
Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
6th Apr 2012
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric
Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I
realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
1st May 2023
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […]
The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
19th Apr 2022
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
Philip I. Thomas
Before and after Almost Perfect
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
alexwlchan
Quick-and-dirty print debugging in Go
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase.
When I’m...
8th Jan 2026
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase.
When I’m reading unfamiliar code, I like to use print debugging to follow what’s happening.
I print what branches I’m in, the value of different variables, which functions are being called, and...
Stephen Wolfram...
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive...
The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work?...
3rd May 2024
The Model Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological...
Sedimental
Repeat the obvious
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious.
-->
It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the...
9th Nov 2015
Bad things happen when we don't repeat the obvious.
-->
It's 9pm and I'm writing a post for the company engineering
blog. Every sentence is a slog. Not because I'm exacting and
conciseness isn't my strong suit. My writing is slow because every
word is obvious, almost...
Liz Denys
A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins
I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her...
9th Nov 2011
I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets.
But I...
bunnie's blog
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
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;...
bt RSS Feed
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
One-time payment
Recurring payment
Free tier...
sancho.dev
Server-side rendering React in OCaml
5th Apr 2023
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
21st Apr 2024
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project.
Outcome
Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
Herman's blog
Things that work (for me)
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
20th Jan 2026
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2022
I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the...
1st Jun 2022
I'm testing a monthly email about what I'm doing! ✨ Highlights of last month - I finished the first version of Postcard, which is a personal website + mailing list tool I'm building. (If you w...
Kevin Chen
Supporting macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode on the web
macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately
78 percent cooler...
26th Oct 2018
macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately
78 percent cooler when using the computer. In Safari Technology Preview
68, it’s now available on webpages too! Here’s how I added support to this
website.
Download video
Using the...
Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
17th Dec 2024
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah....
1st Dec 2023
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah. The fresh air was nice, AQI here in Northern Utah is 100+ right now… wouldn’t recommend. Anyway, back to coding.
Matt Keeter
Higher-order reactive graph programming
10th Mar 2017
Matt Keeter
Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
Buttondown's blog
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
9th Jan 2023
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
5th Jan 2024
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
30th Jul 2023
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I Love You Truly [Ukulele Mp3]
I arranged and recorded 'I Love You Truly' on electric ukulele for Chelsea.
10th Feb 2012
I arranged and recorded 'I Love You Truly' on electric ukulele for Chelsea.
Eric Bailey
I love my slightly smart tiny TV
details {
font-size: var(--scale1);
margin-top: 0.25rem !important;
}
details summary...
13th May 2024
details {
font-size: var(--scale1);
margin-top: 0.25rem !important;
}
details summary {
line-height: 1.2;
}
details p {
line-height: 1.35;
margin-top: var(--scale0);
}
I swear this isn’t a sponsored post.
I impulse bought a TinyTV 2 recently. It...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
15th Apr 2024
You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World”
Python program on...
4th Aug 2023
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World”
Python program on Linux, like this one?
print("hello world")
Here’s what it looks like at the command line:
$ python3 hello.py
hello world
But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
wingolog
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is...
17th Dec 2025
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a
parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to
receive an award and give a speech. (I know, I am a ridiculous...
Kagi Blog
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search (...
21st Jan 2026
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search ( https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search ) , published last year.
alexwlchan
Have a single definition of “now”
I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing...
4th Jun 2023
I’ve been doing a bunch of datetime debugging recently, and this function has been an amazing help:
function today(): Date {
return new Date();
}
It’s not very sophisticated – it just returns the current time – but we use it everywhere we need to get the current time. (You...
Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
16th Jan 2023
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
Sebastian Witowski
The macOS Apps I'm Using
For a long time, the two most popular articles on my blog were lists of macOS apps and CLI tools,...
16th Nov 2024
For a long time, the two most popular articles on my blog were lists of macOS apps and CLI tools, which I've been using. Coincidentally, these kinds of lists are something I love to read myself. I can always find some cool, new tool in such articles. It doesn't matter that I will...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts
Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing.
I’ve written before about the many different ways I...
2nd Aug 2024
Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing.
I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify.
I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live.
Sometimes I...
Jake Zimmerman
Inheritance in Ruby, in pictures
28th Dec 2023
Remains of the Day
Veblen values
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
12th Mar 2020
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
HTMHell
#12 accessible poll yes/no
Bad code
<form role="form">
<h2>Poll title</h2>
<div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
3rd Dec 2019
Bad code
<form role="form">
<h2>Poll title</h2>
<div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div>
<div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup">
<div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title">
<input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering...
2nd Jan 2024
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant.
Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax.
For someone who is...
Maggie Appleton
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Conway’s Favicon
I find favicons pretty useful overall. That weird little Earthworm-Jim-esque
bug-head in my...
30th Nov 2014
I find favicons pretty useful overall. That weird little Earthworm-Jim-esque
bug-head in my bookmarks bar immediately queues me in on where to
click to get to bugzilla. My site hasn’t had a favicon. The only
explanation I can offer is laziness mixed with a lack of inspiration....
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we made feature flags faster and more reliable
Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
8th Sep 2023
Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
Blog System/5
Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree
An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
1st Mar 2025
An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
Maggie Appleton
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
1st Mar 2020
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
A Smart Bear
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend!
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button...
24th Jul 2020
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true">
<legend> Industries Served </legend>
</button>
Issues and how to fix them
legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
Blog of Simple...
A/B Testing with Simple Analytics
5th Sep 2023
ntietz.com blog -...
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume.
I was primed to be...
6th May 2024
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume.
I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic.
He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Novela by Narative (updated)
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
4th Aug 2019
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
Sedimental
Managing Python Ecosystems
You know that old quote:
The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.
Was it a wise...
24th May 2016
You know that old quote:
The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.
Was it a wise old fisherman? Or a dogged Python programmer? Either
way, words don't come much truer than those.
Few, if any, programming languages have embodied the description
"general-purpose"...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Did you know AI is answering our community questions?
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
3rd Oct 2024
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
A Beautiful Site
The difference between web designers and web developers
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
22nd Dec 2009
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
charity.wtf
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
Hixie's Natural Log
Building a UI Framework
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI...
25th Jul 2025
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI frameworks, based on my experiences of the past 25-30 years. The work was originally commissioned by a customer for their use, but it seems like it might be of wider interest so I've decided...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Building a metadata database with AI agents
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building...
31st May 2026
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building applications where agents act as users.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.22.0
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
3rd Mar 2021
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
6th Apr 2023
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHnNnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
2nd Mar 2021
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals.
Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Lessons from seven years of remote work
The inspiration for this post is Željko Filipin’s post on
the same topic.
Nobody worked remotely...
1st Dec 2021
The inspiration for this post is Željko Filipin’s post on
the same topic.
Nobody worked remotely during the pandemic, but everybody worked from
home.
During the pandemic, office workers had to adjust to working out of
their homes. But remote work is different: you’re not working...
Miguel Carranza
Books I read in 2020
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books....
3rd Jan 2021
Growing up, I was never an avid reader. I remember I enjoyed some expanded universe Star Wars books. But that was about it. Even reading The Lord of the Rings or easier to digest books like Harry Potter would be a struggle. It was not until I started getting access to technical...
ntietz.com blog -...
Consider Part-Time Work
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
26th Sep 2016
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Properly Use Defer in Golang
What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗
In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows...
1st Jun 2021
What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗
In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows developers to delay the execution of a function until the current function returns. What throws some people off is that the deferred function’s arguments are evaluated...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2026: SF is the GenAI Super Cluster
The San Francisco Bay area has morphed into a massive AI supercluster with 91% of market cap
16th Apr 2026
The San Francisco Bay area has morphed into a massive AI supercluster with 91% of market cap
swyx's site RSS Feed
Book Poll 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this...
2nd Sep 2019
I've been feeling like I've skewed too much on empty calories recently. So I ran [this poll](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1168182079613485056):
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Boot.dev Blog
Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package
time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the...
2nd Apr 2020
time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library! The problem is that the time.Time{} struct uses more than 24 bytes of memory under most conditions. Go-TinyTime solves this problem by restricting the available dates to...
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
8th Sep 2015
Posts on Nikita...
Switching From C++ to Rust
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
13th Mar 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages.
Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
Blog System/5
Whatever happened to sandboxfs?
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
Vadim Kravcenko
Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
3rd Feb 2024
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […]
The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Steve Klabnik
Ember.js and accessibility
7th Feb 2013
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
30th Jul 2019
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
Daniel Immke
Laying myself off from Amazon
16th Nov 2022
The Changelog
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a...
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was...
3rd Aug 2026
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill...
markround.com
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
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...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why I switched from Vundle to Plug
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
10th Sep 2014
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Daniel Marino
Vibe Coding and the Existential Dread of Progress
Does anyone else hate the term vibe coding?
I’ve been pretty resistant to incorporating AI directly...
19th Jul 2025
Does anyone else hate the term vibe coding?
I’ve been pretty resistant to incorporating AI directly into my development workflow. I use it all the time to clean up emails, Slack messages, and blog posts (including this one). It’s helped me plan vacations, write my cover letter...
Marc Astbury
Mini Programs v.s. Native Apps
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of...
30th Jul 2024
After spending a few weeks in China, the most notable behavioural difference is the usage of mini-programs. Every restaurant has a menu mini-program sitting on top of WeChat or Meituan. Hello Ride the bike-sharing startup is a mini program on top of Alipay. Here is a diagram...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Visualizing Git’s Merkle DAG with D3.js
The Directed
Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a concept I run into over-and-over again;
which is, perhaps,...
21st Mar 2016
The Directed
Acyclic Graph (DAG) is a concept I run into over-and-over again;
which is, perhaps, somewhat ironic.
A DAG is a representation of vertices (nodes) that are connected by
directional edges (arcs—i.e., lines) in such a way that there are no
cycles (e.g., starting at...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Writing Skills for Engineering Managers
Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple
style reflects a simple mind....
31st Oct 2021
Managers at every level are prisoners of the notion that a simple
style reflects a simple mind. Actually a simple style is the result of
hard work and hard thinking
– William Zinsser, On Writing Well
Every software engineering manager’s most precious resource is time.
But you...
TokyoDev
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
2 weeks ago
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here.
I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
12th Dec 2022
Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events.
Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
David Crawshaw
2015-08-04
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
4th Aug 2015
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
Philip Ilic Thomas
Buyers define marketplaces
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
Boot.dev Blog
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
The Changelog
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
12th Jul 2023
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
Dan Slimmon
Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a...
25th Jun 2025
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a long way to making you a stronger SRE.
David Crawshaw
How I program with LLMs
How I program with LLMs
2025-01-06
This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
6th Jan 2025
How I program with LLMs
2025-01-06
This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
Boot.dev Blog
Secure Random Numbers in Node.js
Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js.
const {...
3rd Jul 2019
Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js.
const { randomBytes } = await import("node:crypto");
const buf = randomBytes(256);
console.log(`${buf.length} bytes of random data: ${buf.toString("hex")}`);
crypto.randomBytes() is a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
ntietz.com blog -...
Typing using my keyboard (the other kind)
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently.
It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore,...
7th Apr 2025
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently.
It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore, so I set it up in my office.
It's got 61 keys and you can hook up a pedal to it, too!
But when you hook it up to the computer, you can't type with it.
I mean, that's expected—it...
macwright.com
Recently
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
3rd Mar 2023
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things
are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work.
Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to
end.
Reading
I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
David Gerrells
how to be authentic
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind...
3 weeks ago
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind when I try to understand why I have such admiration for and disgust with mainstream pop, hip-hop, and rap music.
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
31st Jan 2023
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
16th Aug 2021
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
Daniel Immke
So why write a blog?
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
1st Sep 2017
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…
bt RSS Feed
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
6th Jul 2022
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it.
This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
7th Jun 2024
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
elementary Blog
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few...
6th Sep 2023
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
A Smart Bear
Creating space
Do less, to create the space to be great.
4th Jan 2026
Do less, to create the space to be great.
Tinloof - Blog
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
1st Sep 2019
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial.
We have 1 goal: set up...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
6th Aug 2021
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
bunnie's blog
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
Maggie Appleton
Computational Notebooks
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
18th Apr 2023
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
Daniel Immke
Building and launching my first iPhone app
(And doing it the hard way.)
29th Jun 2019
(And doing it the hard way.)
On Test Automation
Looking back on the first six months of 2025
I can’t believe that it’s July already, in fact, we’re three weeks into July when I write this. In...
23rd Jul 2025
I can’t believe that it’s July already, in fact, we’re three weeks into July when I write this. In this blog post, I want to take stock of the first six months of 2025, especially the professional side of it. There will also be some more personal subjects I’ll talk about, though....
Computer Things
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
TokyoDev
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
10th Mar 2025
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
Eric Bailey
Oh shit banners
I have worked for two newspapers over the course of my career (three if you count my high school...
3rd Jan 2024
I have worked for two newspapers over the course of my career (three if you count my high school newspaper). One thing I learned there is that the top half of each and every newspaper homepage is a daily battle of priorities.
The idea here is that the thing that is highest,...
Josh Collinsworth
Alchemy
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways,...
9th Nov 2025
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
Ink & Switch
10 · Beyond prose
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
3rd Apr 2024
We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Alphabet as Technology
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words:
Thinking of a language as a technology...
16th Mar 2023
Robin has an interesting post about the technology of words:
Thinking of a language as a technology or a product is strange at first but the more you look at them the more they resemble microwaves or dishwashers; incredibly complicated under the hood but also sort of boring on...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Neither necessary nor sufficient
6th Oct 2015
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
9th Aug 2023
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself.
It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email,...
2nd Aug 2022
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
13th Jan 2016
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Using AWK like grep with envvars
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s
right, I use DuckDuckGo like a...
6th May 2018
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s
right, I use DuckDuckGo like a verb). Like everyone who lives the daily
joy (and, frequently, deep frustration) of using the command line to
accomplish day-to-day tasks I am a fairly deft manipulator of...
The Codist
Why Is Xcode So Antagonistic To Reduced Vision?
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light...
17th Sep 2025
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light gray backgrounds. I usually code in 16 or even 18 point fonts, currently Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Every new release of Xcode makes seeing various UI elements harder, as if the...
Boot.dev Blog
HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A
wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
28th Aug 2024
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A
wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes.
And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well
built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
elementary Blog
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
2nd Jul 2025
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
elementary Blog
The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
2nd Jun 2025
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
Posts on Nikita...
Media Server Journey
I manage my legally obtained content using a media server. Over the years, both hardware and...
28th Dec 2025
I manage my legally obtained content using a media server. Over the years, both hardware and software on the server went through a bunch of transformations which I find interesting.
In order to not look at ads on my Samsung TV, I view all of my content through NVIDIA Shield. It...
blag
What I want to do at Recurse Center
Projects I want to work on at RC
24th Oct 2021
Projects I want to work on at RC
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on comments
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a...
12th Jun 2016
For as long as I can remember, comments have been a staple of blogging software. After all, what's a good blog post without a relevant discussion to accompany it?
You might find it strange to learn that Postleaf doesn't ship with comments. This is by design, and I'll explain why...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight....
4th Sep 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It’s a shame, but we can’t win them all. The hound will return soon.
the singularity is...
you can never go back
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system.
I like the Retro Game...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table...
24th Aug 2024
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents.
Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation.
This article describes how I...
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
15th Dec 2023
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
Patrick Kayongo
Park Games
As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin...
17th Sep 2022
As the shedding of the luck-bean tree forms coral carpets on the grass below; as the birds begin their morning song earlier into the fourth watch of the night, calling the sun to come out to play; as new flowering greens shoot out of chronic brown branches; urban nature dances to...
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!?
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
18th Dec 2012
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
Marco.org
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation
Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign...
16th Jul 2024
Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond.
Like podcasts better than blog posts? Listen to ATP #596 for more!
What’s new
Much...
Steve Klabnik
Want to join the Rust docs team?
24th Mar 2017
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
21st Mar 2017
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app.
Last night I had to face the fact...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
1st Jul 2022
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st Mar 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...
ntietz.com blog -...
[Talk] Scaling Graphs
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
5th Apr 2016
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube:
If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
Hixie's Natural Log
When complaints are a good sign
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
27th Sep 2024
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices.
These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
Herman's blog
Nerding out about heaters
Keeping warm in the winter
28th May 2025
Keeping warm in the winter
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