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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

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

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing? Have a great idea? Prove it by finding ten customers ready to hand over cash. Everything else is...
9th Aug 2010
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Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing?

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

9th Aug 2010
Have a great idea? Prove it by finding ten customers ready to hand over cash. Everything else is avoiding the truth.
26th Feb 2024
15th Feb 2023
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Running around Albany

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

15th Feb 2023
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
3rd Jun 2024
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“Just” One Line

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

3rd Jun 2024
From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
2nd Dec 2019
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My experience as a remote worker

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

2nd Dec 2019
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Plates and states I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I...
14th Aug 2024
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Plates and states

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Aug 2024
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child. I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to. Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
Handling Enzyme in React 18 React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing...
26th Mar 2022
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Handling Enzyme in React 18

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

26th Mar 2022
React Testing Library (RTL) is arguably superior to Enzyme, due to a shift from testing implementation details to more user-centric unit tests. However, many projects still contain lots of Enzyme tests from the early days, making migration difficult and time-consuming. At my...
A World of First Drafts Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny...
14th Jun 2026
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A World of First Drafts

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

14th Jun 2026
Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny Valley Fiddlers in the Room The Last Hike Semantic Satiation of an Acronym A World of First Drafts I recently picked up a copy of “An Evening With Windham Hill”, a collection of early...
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
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Searching for The Early Founder Cadence

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

11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
10th Jan 2025
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Self-documenting Makefiles

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

10th Jan 2025
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
It’s More Important To Recognize What Direction People Are Moving Than Where They Are I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an...
14th Nov 2023
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14th Nov 2023
I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem. You’re advancing car culture and are actively hurting the planet. The only ethical thing to do is ditch your cars and put all your effort into...
Is Computer Science Really that Hard? Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science...
5th Apr 2023
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Is Computer Science Really that Hard?

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

5th Apr 2023
Yes, computer science is hard, but you already know that. You don’t want to know if computer science is hard. You want to know if it’s too hard. You want to know if having to learn computer science is going to be a real obstacle in your way to achieving your goal.
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination? Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
14th Jan 2021
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Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?

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

14th Jan 2021
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
1st Aug 2023
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Recently

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

1st Aug 2023
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
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how not to run a saas company

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

13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
28th Dec 2020
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025 We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI...
10th Jun 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025

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

10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
10th Jan 2018
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My first podcast appearance

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2018
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
What I'm up to - May 2023 ✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking...
1st May 2023
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What I'm up to - May 2023

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

1st May 2023
✨ What I've been up to April was a blur - I was in the Bay Area, NYC, and Cleveland. I'm looking forward to spending the next three weeks without travel. I am currently immersed in the developme...
Boot.dev Beat. January 2023 If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
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
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Write the most clever code you possibly can

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

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,...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own...
2nd Dec 2022
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Building openring with Jekyll Build

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

2nd Dec 2022
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own personal “reading list” of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Dinosaur Kingdom II A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
1st Sep 2026
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Dinosaur Kingdom II

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2026
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
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
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elementary OS 7 Available Now

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

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...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
16th Apr 2024
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The Analog Web

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

16th Apr 2024
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core...
16th Jul 2020
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Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way

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

16th Jul 2020
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core contributors (Hi Paul!). If I ever get invited to the "Talk Python To Me" podcast (not that I have anything interesting to talk about), and Michael Kennedy is going to ask me what my...
1st Mar 2021
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

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

20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler now supports managed...
6th Feb 2026
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ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel itself: Then run a quick check with :hello, world Now give a check...
Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
13th Jan 2018
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Improving my productivity in 2018

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

13th Jan 2018
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving...
31st Dec 2022
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Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2022
Explain Extended New Year's post solving the Rubik's Cube in SQL The post Happy New Year: solving the Rubik’s Cube in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret...
2nd Mar 2014
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4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup

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

2nd Mar 2014
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
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Vicuna

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

5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
30 Years After all these years, I still get the dreams. ... more ...
13th Jan 2026
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30 Years

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

13th Jan 2026
After all these years, I still get the dreams. ... more ...
Writing Developer Job Postings When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a...
28th Aug 2015
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Writing Developer Job Postings

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Aug 2015
When you're advertising a developer position online, a job posting is often the first time a developer hears about your company. Despite the posting being the first step in the hiring flow, companies put little effort into them, often having it be little more than a list of...
Invisible success I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are...
17th Apr 2024
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Invisible success

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

17th Apr 2024
I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because I think we went about making it the right way: Identifying an...
Neofetch – Server Administration System I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the...
4th Oct 2022
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Neofetch – Server Administration System

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Oct 2022
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the system as soon as I log in and with zero friction. I am obliged to use the one and only tool: neofetch. Neofetch is a pillar of
how to make a game engine Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
20th Dec 2025
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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 no threejs. How hard can it be?
I am a junior, and can't find a job - now what? “The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after...
25th Jul 2024
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I am a junior, and can't find a job - now what?

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jul 2024
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after 3-4 years with a CS degree is not easy. They graduate only to find out nobody wants to hire them or even move forward beyond the initial screening. I’ll be real with you. there’s...
Verizon's I'm A Teapot Error And Other Technology Fails This is not my week for using technology. None of these problems was my fault, other than my...
6th Oct 2025
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Verizon's I'm A Teapot Error And Other Technology Fails

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

6th Oct 2025
This is not my week for using technology. None of these problems was my fault, other than my existing in the universe and the attraction that brought. Today, I wanted to review my Verizon mobile account, and I noticed that the website had changed since my last visit. I clicked
Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05 ![Speaker](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6...
5th Feb 2011
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Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2011
![Speaker](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaEFsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1169db2c72c9703ffc256e380c62cb2f19df8c6e/tokyorubykaigi_speaker.jpg) [Tokyo Ruby Kaigi...
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
2nd Apr 2024
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The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact

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

2nd Apr 2024
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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

15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
Books I Read in 2018 Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
31st Dec 2018
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Books I Read in 2018

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

31st Dec 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
Who runs Engineering processes? Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was...
3rd Apr 2023
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Who runs Engineering processes?

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

3rd Apr 2023
Uber ran a tech spec review process called the DUCK Review. “DUCK” didn’t stand for anything–it was created as a deliberate non-acronym–but was otherwise a fairly typical review process. When I first joined, we’d review one or two specs each week. The volume of requested reviews...
A Web Components Primer On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple...
4th Feb 2022
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A Web Components Primer

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

4th Feb 2022
On the eve of February, I was inspired to tweet about web components. What started as a simple thought quickly turned into a series of tweets that folks seem to find useful. I've adapted the thread and I'm posting it here for prosperity. Overview # Shadow DOM? Light DOM? Slots?...
22nd Mar 2026
17th Apr 2011
Doing versus Delegating A staff+ skill
6th Aug 2025
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Doing versus Delegating

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2025
A staff+ skill
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
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Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?

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

7th Dec 2024
TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Add metadata to your RSS feeds Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
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Add metadata to your RSS feeds

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

1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Naming Variables the Right Way I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming...
1st Apr 2021
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Naming Variables the Right Way

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

1st Apr 2021
I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming more than one might suspect. For example, a developer uses a rateLimit variable expecting it to be denominated in seconds while it represents minutes, resulting in a 6x slower...
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025 We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson...
7th Dec 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025

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

7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS

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

10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
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
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Why You Should Prefix Custom Events

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

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...
2nd May 2014
The LLM productivity puzzle Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first...
22nd Jan 2023
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The LLM productivity puzzle

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2023
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex, Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Kagi search introduces Team plan Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
18th Oct 2022
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Kagi search introduces Team plan

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

18th Oct 2022
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
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On Progress

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

18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
Technology optimism hour Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool...
14th Aug 2026
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Technology optimism hour

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

14th Aug 2026
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again. It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room is...
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
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Taking web search through the last mile

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

1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
The Cultural Anthropology of React An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community
1st Aug 2021
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The Cultural Anthropology of React

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

1st Aug 2021
An anthropological look at the cultural norms of the React community
Thanks, 201X! Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
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Thanks, 201X!

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional software engineering. The Quantity I can't possibly summarize it...
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...
Truths about digital accessibility Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
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Truths about digital accessibility

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

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...
Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025 Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1....
1st Nov 2025
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Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025

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

1st Nov 2025
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1. That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices. This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re...
26th Mar 2014
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fstl

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2014
Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
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Three Jobs of Containers

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

1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
2nd Jul 2025
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS

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

2nd Jul 2025
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
9th Dec 2017
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Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce

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

9th Dec 2017
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
How to solve it (with raycasting) In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math...
1st May 2024
105

How to solve it (with raycasting)

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

1st May 2024
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down. Glitch was a platform where you...
8th Jul 2025
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Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2025
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down. Glitch was a platform where you could make websites and web apps, with a heavy emphasis on creativity and sharing. You could read the source code for any project to understand how it worked, and remix somebody...
Recently I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon...
1st Dec 2023
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Recently

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

1st Dec 2023
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
Third Stage Engineering The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software,...
16th Nov 2025
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Third Stage Engineering

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2025
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software, and tuning; the investment and sequence of these efforts can be pictured as a three-stage rocket: I recently presented this embarrassingly simple diagram to Intel's executive...
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I...
6th Jun 2022
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What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election

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

6th Jun 2022
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements. Contents California Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Controller Treasurer Insurance Commissioner United...
First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
3rd May 2019
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First Letter Pseudo Element

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

3rd May 2019
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the...
7th Oct 2014
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7th Oct 2014
When we ask ourselves "why aren't there more women in tech?", we're quick to discuss how the pipeline fails young women. I would be lying if I didn't think there's room for improvement here - I've written about my own negative experiences as a young programmer - and it's exciting...
The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding to Become a Manager “Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews,...
1st Sep 2020
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1st Sep 2020
“Why did you decide to become a manager?” It’s a question that gets asked a lot, in job interviews, 1x1s, and plain old casual conversation. I ask this question a lot, and I am often frustrated (or bored) by the answers I hear back. Most of them can be bucketed in one of three...
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

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

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
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
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions?

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

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…
Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
16th Jan 2021
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1)

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2021
What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
What I'm up to - June 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jun 2025
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What I'm up to - June 2025

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

1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
17th Dec 2024
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

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

17th Dec 2024
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
4th Jun 2024
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
10th Sep 2023
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Death by a thousand microservices

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Sep 2023
The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
Doo-Wop Multitrack: "Earth Angel" (for Chelsea) I recorded a doo-wop arrangement of 'Earth Angel' for my girlfriend Chelsea.
17th Jan 2009
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Doo-Wop Multitrack: "Earth Angel" (for Chelsea)

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

17th Jan 2009
I recorded a doo-wop arrangement of 'Earth Angel' for my girlfriend Chelsea.
Strategic choices: When both options are good Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
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Strategic choices: When both options are good

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

22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
8th Jan 2019
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

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

8th Jan 2019
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
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
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What I'm up to - June 2022

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

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...
1st Sep 2023
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
15th Oct 2023
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Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2023
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
5th Oct 2023
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Rhythms of Order

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2023
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
17th Apr 2023
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Finally!

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

17th Apr 2023
I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
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
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10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix

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

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...
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
10th Apr 2019
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Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

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

10th Apr 2019
Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
3rd Feb 2021
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Archiving Postleaf

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

3rd Feb 2021
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
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
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Managing Python Ecosystems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

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"...
Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. Highlights for this release are: New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
Joining Toastmasters in Japan to Make Friends “Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of...
3rd Aug 2026
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Joining Toastmasters in Japan to Make Friends

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2026
“Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of advice people give when you’re wondering how to meet new people, and I decided to take it. I had just moved to Fukuoka after my job hunt as a post-graduate and a friend introduced me...
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
24th Dec 2023
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How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer

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

24th Dec 2023
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
Replacing Jekyll with Pandoc and a Makefile EDIT: 2016-08-19 I got an email a very long time ago that I meant to post about on ye old weblog...
13th May 2014
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Replacing Jekyll with Pandoc and a Makefile

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

13th May 2014
EDIT: 2016-08-19 I got an email a very long time ago that I meant to post about on ye old weblog from a fellow named Tom Duck who built a CMS based around some of the ideas presented here. It’s called Bassclef and it looks pretty amazing and folks should check it out. I used to...
You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros

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

9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum Thoughts on what I think made the Winamp Skin Museum successful.
23rd Sep 2020
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Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum

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

23rd Sep 2020
Thoughts on what I think made the Winamp Skin Museum successful.
SymPy makes math fun again It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
25th Jun 2019
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SymPy makes math fun again

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

25th Jun 2019
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
5th Mar 2025
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March 2025

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

5th Mar 2025
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
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Being a minor AI public figure

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

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
Crafting Engineering Strategy! On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer to celebrate the...
25th Oct 2025
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Crafting Engineering Strategy!

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

25th Oct 2025
On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer to celebrate the completion of my work on my prior book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. Three weeks later, I posted Engineering strategy notes on November 21st, 2023, as I started to pull together...
Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
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Postleaf: reimagined

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

26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
Needy Programs If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed. Older...
13th Nov 2025
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Needy Programs

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Nov 2025
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed. Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed. But recently...
Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF...
31st Dec 2018
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Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2018
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL. The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
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Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart

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

15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

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

22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
11th Jul 2023
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
4th Aug 2023
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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

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

4th Aug 2023
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
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...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
23rd Oct 2016
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects

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

23rd Oct 2016
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
Send teasers of premium emails Send teasers of premium emails
3rd Jun 2022
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Send teasers of premium emails

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

3rd Jun 2022
Send teasers of premium emails
Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
29th Mar 2017
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Facebook didn't try to change the world

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Mar 2017
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
2nd Sep 2022
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok

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

2nd Sep 2022
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Article pitch for your consideration A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...
8th Apr 2025
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Article pitch for your consideration

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

8th Apr 2025
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website. Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...
Lexxy 1.0 is here Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy. Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on...
28th Sep 2026
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Lexxy 1.0 is here

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Sep 2026
Today we are releasing the version 1.0 of Lexxy. Lexxy is a rich text editor for Rails built on Lexical. It already powers Basecamp, Fizzy and many others, and it will become the default editor in Rails. I recently presented it in Rails World (slides, video coming soon). This is...
Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
2nd Dec 2018
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Keep a React component mounted

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

2nd Dec 2018
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
1st Jul 2024
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July 2024

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

1st Jul 2024
What I'm up to - October 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
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What I'm up to - October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
9th Sep 2019
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government

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

9th Sep 2019
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
What I'm up to - August 2023 I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Aug 2023
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What I'm up to - August 2023

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

1st Aug 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in July Booklet is a product I've been building to help communi...
How to Thought Lead (2026) I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
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How to Thought Lead (2026)

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

14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
16th Oct 2025
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Congrats to IHMC Robotics for winning Bronze in my Humanoid Olympics: Doors Event

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Oct 2025
Round Knob Push Door with a time of 18 Seconds
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
6th Mar 2025
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Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners

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

6th Mar 2025
I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
Constructing a four-point egg For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
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Constructing a four-point egg

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

29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to construct the “four point egg”. I...
The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2026 And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗 How can...
4th Jan 2021
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The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2026

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

4th Jan 2021
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗 How can you decide what the most popular coding language is? It’s like trying to pick the most popular ice cream flavor - everyone has a favorite. The truth is that different coders prefer...
Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article) What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
25th Oct 2021
JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of...
23rd Aug 2022
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23rd Aug 2022
We’re often told that a “single-threaded, ordered list” is the correct way to prioritize the work of the future, however this confuses “prioritization” with “work-planning,” and forces the comparison of un-comparable things. Here’s how to solve those problems.
CSS vs. JavaScript There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether...
26th May 2026
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CSS vs. JavaScript

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

26th May 2026
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies...
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024 Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was...
28th Feb 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024

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

28th Feb 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
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
Stop Fascism: Vote Blue It might seem silly for a retired technical writer and obscure blogger to endorse a Presidential...
20th Oct 2024
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Stop Fascism: Vote Blue

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

20th Oct 2024
It might seem silly for a retired technical writer and obscure blogger to endorse a Presidential candidate. I am not vain enough to believe that my prestige (such as it is) has the power to influence people’s electoral choices. But I believe this election to be too important for...
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
28th Jun 2025
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Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jun 2025
I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I...
27th Feb 2019
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Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful

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

27th Feb 2019
In 2005, I got my invite to get a Gmail account. It was incredible, and I loved it, although I didn't really know why at the time. It was a combination of really great design so it was pleasant to use, the hype built up by the invite system, the perpetual feeling of getting...
"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
12th Dec 2024
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow

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

12th Dec 2024
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
Making a Website is for Everyone Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this...
1st Oct 2023
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Making a Website is for Everyone

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

1st Oct 2023
Dave asked what makes people excited about building for the web and Thomas answered with this wonderful articulation: the web is the only programming platform (that I know of) that considers its builders regular people, not IT Professionals and continues to write standards with...
11th Feb 2019
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders Hello! Right now I’m back to working on neural networks with sketches of faces. current goal:...
1st Dec 2020
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Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders

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

1st Dec 2020
Hello! Right now I’m back to working on neural networks with sketches of faces. current goal: cluster the faces somehow As a starting point, I thought it’d be fun to, instead of generating faces, get the neural network to do some unsupervised clustering of the faces! The idea...
22nd May 2026
How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18] Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features...
6th Dec 2021
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How to Use Golang's Generics [Updated since 1.18]

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

6th Dec 2021
Generics in Go have been released with Go 1.18! This is one of the most eagerly-awaited features since the release of the language. Many devs have gone so far as to say Go’s previous lack of generic types made the language too painful to use at all. Let’s dive into what generics...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
25th Jul 2021
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

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

25th Jul 2021
I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance...
1st Dec 2023
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Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance improvements we achieved. Our setup Basecamp is currently running Ruby 3.3.0-preview3 and Rails Edge (master branch). We configure YJIT in our servers via RUBYOPT=--yjit-disable...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
3rd Oct 2022
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

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

3rd Oct 2022
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
8th Jan 2025
Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
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Why I left Instagram

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

18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering...
16th Feb 2024
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From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate

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

16th Feb 2024
It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering management position after the expansion of our team. I've been a front-end developer for 7 years before that, and initially I took the "advanced individual contributor" career track before...
From roots to polynomials Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of...
7th Aug 2022
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From roots to polynomials

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

7th Aug 2022
Polynomials can be represented in various forms. The most common ones are those I call the "sum of powers" (for example f(x)=ax³+bx²+cx+d) and the "root factors" (for example f(x)=(x-r)(x-s)(x-t), where r, s and t are the roots). The process of transforming the former into the...
24th Nov 2025
Writing tests with Claude Code - part 1 - initial results In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and...
9th Mar 2026
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Writing tests with Claude Code - part 1 - initial results

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2026
In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and then perform a refactoring action, using hand-written tests as the safety net. In that post, I wrote that I didn’t want Claude to touch the tests themselves, and why. I was still...
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
28th Jun 2020
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How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2)

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

28th Jun 2020
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
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
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Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package

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

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...
Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
20th Apr 2021
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Apr 2021
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
4th Apr 2024
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The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source

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

4th Apr 2024
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
I did a Q/A with the Reactiflux community Read the transcript of a live Q/A I did about Webamp and Nuclide.
18th May 2018
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I did a Q/A with the Reactiflux community

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

18th May 2018
Read the transcript of a live Q/A I did about Webamp and Nuclide.
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
25th Dec 2018
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators

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

25th Dec 2018
A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway? For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
5th Dec 2019
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So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2019
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
You can now add automatic alt text to your images You can now add automatic alt text to your images
6th Oct 2023
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You can now add automatic alt text to your images

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

6th Oct 2023
You can now add automatic alt text to your images
Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
1st Feb 2024
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Headlamps are better flashlights

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

1st Feb 2024
A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
Is It JavaScript? OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
2nd Jun 2025
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Is It JavaScript?

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

2nd Jun 2025
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

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

27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
28th Apr 2024
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Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2024
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Implementation-First GraphQL Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
17th Apr 2023
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Implementation-First GraphQL

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

17th Apr 2023
Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting...
9th Jun 2025
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The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

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

9th Jun 2025
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are...
Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

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

4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024 Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
7th Feb 2024
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Black coiled planter with attached drip tray, 2024

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

7th Feb 2024
Heavily grogged black stoneware, coil-built, denim satin glaze
Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
28th Mar 2020
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Image darning

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

28th Mar 2020
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
3rd Mar 2022
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images

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

3rd Mar 2022
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Why we charge daily: Tinloof’s pricing model explained This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
6th Jun 2023
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Why we charge daily: Tinloof’s pricing model explained

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

6th Jun 2023
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
1st Apr 2015
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Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer

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

1st Apr 2015
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
14th Jun 2025
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TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions)

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

14th Jun 2025
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

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

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
Things I enjoyed in 2023 Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
30th Dec 2023
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Things I enjoyed in 2023

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

30th Dec 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
13th Feb 2024
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How To Center a Div

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

13th Feb 2024
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
Dashboard and Archives downtime Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
1st Sep 2026
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Dashboard and Archives downtime

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

1st Sep 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
Early days of AI Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it...
21st Aug 2023
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Early days of AI

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

21st Aug 2023
Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past
15th Mar 2016
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.
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