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That bleeping kerfuffle After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
18th Jun 2017
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That bleeping kerfuffle

from Don Melton [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2017
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio. I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
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Disqus - An Apology Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
12th Jun 2024
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Disqus - An Apology

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

12th Jun 2024
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home' I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
2nd Apr 2011
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Ten minutes playing with typography: 'home'

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

2nd Apr 2011
I made the graphic with the GIMP, and the typeface used is Helvetica Neue.
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore

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

7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login...
7th Jan 2021
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Day 33: pairing is magic and beautiful git diffs

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

7th Jan 2021
a silly Rails login bug (or: pairing is magic) On Wednesday morning suddenly I wasn’t able to login in my dev environment, even though it was working in prod and it had worked the day before and I thought I hadn’t made any changes to my login code. The error was really weird...
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it...
1st Oct 2021
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Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue

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

1st Oct 2021
Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
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Things that work (for me) A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
20th Jan 2026
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Things that work (for me)

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

20th Jan 2026
A list of tools and items that JustWork (tm)
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A Commentary on Defining Observability 2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
19th Mar 2024
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A Commentary on Defining Observability

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

19th Mar 2024
2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
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Stuff to do when you’re not well Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was...
13th Nov 2017
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Stuff to do when you’re not well

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

13th Nov 2017
Stuff to do when you’re not well Learn new stuff! ¶Stuff to do when you’re not well Last week I was sick with a cold. I was basically indoors for 5 straight days (one of those actually in bed all day). I was also unable to sleep for a couple of nights. So I had a lot of extra...
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What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
14th Oct 2020
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What's "good" code and does it matter?

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

14th Oct 2020
I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
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Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp...
20th Nov 2024
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Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser

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

20th Nov 2024
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
12th Apr 2021
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The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode

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

12th Apr 2021
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious...
17th Oct 2025
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape

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

17th Oct 2025
TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun [ C ] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and...
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Cross-post to Bluesky Cross-post to Bluesky
1st Sep 2024
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Cross-post to Bluesky

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

1st Sep 2024
Cross-post to Bluesky
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
21st Feb 2023
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes

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

21st Feb 2023
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
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Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022
31st May 2022
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Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022

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

31st May 2022
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How good is Claude, really? At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
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How good is Claude, really?

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

4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype. One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
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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
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You can't always fix it

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

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...
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2nd Dec 2024
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

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

2nd Dec 2024
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
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Markdown Today: Journal from any browser A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
7th Apr 2017
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Markdown Today: Journal from any browser

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

7th Apr 2017
A private, mobile-first web app that writes your journal directly to Dropbox.
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can...
30th Apr 2025
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs

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

30th Apr 2025
AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can also generate full-stack GPU flame graphs for providing new insights into gaming performance, especially when coupled with FlameScope (an older open source project of mine). Here's an...
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Whispering gallery
14th Apr 2026
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Whispering gallery

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
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It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
16th Jul 2024
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It’s hard to grow without trust

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

16th Jul 2024
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
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Raven
4th Jul 2024
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Raven

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

4th Jul 2024
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
6th Jan 2019
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Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders

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

6th Jan 2019
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
1st Jun 2019
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

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

1st Jun 2019
Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
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whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
4th Mar 2025
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whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2025
Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
13th Sep 2026
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases

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

13th Sep 2026
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
2nd Apr 2023
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201

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

2nd Apr 2023
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
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Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
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Adventures in pixel space

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Mar 2025
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Buried by the media "No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly,...
5th Sep 2016
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Buried by the media

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

5th Sep 2016
"No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly, Jerry Flemmons of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram turned to me and said, 'Cochran, if we're gonna write a story about the burial of Lee Harvey Oswald, we're gonna have to bury the son of...
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Introduction to javascript iterables, iterators, and generators A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work...
9th Aug 2016
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Introduction to javascript iterables, iterators, and generators

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2016
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work with other javascript features.
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#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser...
9th Feb 2020
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#16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2020
Context: A list of images that link to detail pages. Bad code <a tabindex="0"> <div alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" aria-label="Browser Wars: The Last Engine"> <div> <img alt="Browser Wars: The Last Engine" src="thumbnail.jpg"> </div> </div> </a> Issues and...
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A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave? Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
8th Dec 2022
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A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave?

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

8th Dec 2022
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
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This site has buttons! This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple...
8th Jun 2025
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This site has buttons!

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

8th Jun 2025
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
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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
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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...
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Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
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Recently

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

1st Jun 2023
Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
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Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
1st Feb 2019
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Podcast submission notes

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

1st Feb 2019
Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
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WebAssembly is more than just the web
13th Jul 2018
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WebAssembly is more than just the web

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jul 2018
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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
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Birth of a new blog

from Confused bit [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Hearts, stars, and trumpets: the things I 'favorite' but don't 'like' Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes". We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding...
5th Nov 2015
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Hearts, stars, and trumpets: the things I 'favorite' but don't 'like'

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

5th Nov 2015
Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes". We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite. It's true - not...
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Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics? This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
17th Jul 2020
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Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?

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

17th Jul 2020
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
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A language for designing slides
27th Apr 2017
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A language for designing slides

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2017
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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
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Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
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Maintaining MediaWiki User Scripts via Git This week I’m at the Wikimedia Technical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve attended a bunch...
14th Nov 2019
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Maintaining MediaWiki User Scripts via Git

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

14th Nov 2019
This week I’m at the Wikimedia Technical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve attended a bunch of great sessions and I’m getting a lot out of my attendance. Today I attended a session about “user scripts” that piqued my interest. MediaWiki user scripts are powerful...
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Unattended reboots with encrypted disks An introduction to ZKeys: a new service that stores encryption keys off-site and automatically locks...
6 days ago
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Unattended reboots with encrypted disks

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

6 days ago
An introduction to ZKeys: a new service that stores encryption keys off-site and automatically locks access to them if the client machines go offline for a long period of time.
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The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology
22nd Oct 2018
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The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology

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

22nd Oct 2018
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Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. "MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...
3rd Sep 2023
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Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.

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

3rd Sep 2023
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
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Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
19th Jul 2023
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Dynamic Slots

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

19th Jul 2023
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
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Hardbrücke, Zürich The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite...
2nd Sep 2012
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Hardbrücke, Zürich

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

2nd Sep 2012
The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
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Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so...
13th Jun 2022
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Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder

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

13th Jun 2022
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so doing, I’ve had some fascinating conversations with engineering managers who have been trying unsuccessfully to make the leap to director. Here is a roundup of some of the ideas and...
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Cooking with glasses I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage,...
21st Sep 2025
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Cooking with glasses

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

21st Sep 2025
I’ve been thinking the new Meta Ray-Ban augmented reality glasses. Not because they failed onstage, which they absolutely did. Or that shortly after they received rave reviews from Victoria Song at The Verge and MKBHD, two of the most influential tech reviewers. My impression is...
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A 30 minute introduction to Rust
11th Jan 2014
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A 30 minute introduction to Rust

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2014
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Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
11th Dec 2023
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Observer Theory

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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Counting the days, revisited Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts...
9th Aug 2026
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Counting the days, revisited

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

9th Aug 2026
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down date-time into linear time_t. I recently...
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The magic function How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a...
3rd Jan 2025
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The magic function

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2025
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.
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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
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee

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

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...
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2024
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My racism at accents Interesting NPR segment today: A powerful eruption on the sun disrupted radio signals on...
17th Dec 2023
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My racism at accents

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

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...
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy When even "free" is too expensive.
4th May 2025
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

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

4th May 2025
When even "free" is too expensive.
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Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk...
17th Feb 2020
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Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS

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

17th Feb 2020
Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk about careers in tech. Due to conflicting schedules I had to reschedule a few times and after a few crazy months of travel to end my 2019, I finally got the trip on the calendar...
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Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1 Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the...
5th Apr 2023
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Personal Newsletter 2023 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2023
Loss and Distance For the past couple of months, my Facebook usage has started to diminish. In the past, I used to post quite a bit, and I dare say probably 10 years ago to the point of oversharing. It seems to me that the popularity of Facebook has been dropping in my network to...
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Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
2nd Dec 2021
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Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC

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

2nd Dec 2021
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
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Papageno's Glockenspiel-kulele [Ukulele Ringtone] A ringtone for Chelsea based on Papageno's Glockenspiel music from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
26th May 2013
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Papageno's Glockenspiel-kulele [Ukulele Ringtone]

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

26th May 2013
A ringtone for Chelsea based on Papageno's Glockenspiel music from Mozart's The Magic Flute.
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Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
4th Sep 2026
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Most Software Was Already Slop

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

4th Sep 2026
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
30th Jul 2024
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites

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

30th Jul 2024
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
3rd Apr 2023
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Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends

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

3rd Apr 2023
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
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f.lux, but for your house Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human...
17th Oct 2022
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f.lux, but for your house

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

17th Oct 2022
Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human sleep – Sarah L Chellappa, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa214 Night & Day – 🌛 left-side is 18:14 MDT (light color @ 2600 K); 🌞 right-side is 15:20 MDT (light color @ 4900...
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Guile-Websocket 0.1 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an...
12th Nov 2022
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Guile-Websocket 0.1 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2022
I'm happy to announce that Guile-Websocket 0.1 has been released! Guile-Websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. source tarball:...
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Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase 2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I...
10th Mar 2021
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Changing the Tires on a Moving Codebase

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2021
2020 was a year of reckonings. And for all that was beyond one’s control, as the year went on, I found myself pouring more and more into the one thing that felt within reach: futureproofing of the large enterprise web application I helped build, SimpleLegal. Now complete, this...
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How we migrated to TypeIDs without breaking clients Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
1st Mar 2026
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How we migrated to TypeIDs without breaking clients

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

1st Mar 2026
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
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Human service is luxury Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality...
3rd Mar 2025
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Human service is luxury

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2025
Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality right now. I can't tell you how often I've been stuck in some god-forsaken AI loop or phone tree WHEN ALL I WANT IS A HUMAN. So I end up either just yelling "operator",...
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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?"
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What I'm up to - November 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
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What I'm up to - November 2024

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

1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
2nd May 2024
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales

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

2nd May 2024
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
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Antimony
2nd Apr 2015
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Antimony

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

2nd Apr 2015
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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

16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2023
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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.
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Navigate Your Computer the Easy Way Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing, they simplify navigation,...
1st Jul 2007
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Navigate Your Computer the Easy Way

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

1st Jul 2007
Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing, they simplify navigation, they’re old school. If you can’t navigate your filesystem/computer without touching your mouse, then you aren’t as cool as me, and that’s the straight dope. I’m writing this because I...
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the... “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An...
23rd Jan 2021
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Questionable Advice: “How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?”

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

23rd Jan 2021
“How do I feel worthwhile as a manager when my people are doing all the implementing?” — An Engineering Manager Hey, real quick: how long have you been managing? If it’s less than two years, honey, the answer is “you don’t.” Your feelings about your performance don’t mean much in...
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles! A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't...
22nd Aug 2019
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles!

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

22nd Aug 2019
A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't using them, and it features my favorite episode art yet: Covering your webcams Liz and Geoffrey take a look at how attackers compromise webcams and discuss why it's worth physically...
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable...
28th Jun 2025
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine

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

28th Jun 2025
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable housing, and sometimes people ask me how they can do the same and what to expect. I decided to make a mini-zine that tries to demystify speaking up at public meetings: All text in the...
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Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum I have written a lot about the pendulum swing between engineering and management, so I often hear...
24th Mar 2022
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Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum

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

24th Mar 2022
I have written a lot about the pendulum swing between engineering and management, so I often hear from people who are angsting about the transition. A quick recap of the relevant posts: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Engineering Management: the Pendulum or the Ladder If Management...
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How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
16th Jul 2023
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How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput?

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

16th Jul 2023
The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
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Rust and Go vs everything else Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages...
19th Nov 2024
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Rust and Go vs everything else

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2024
Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
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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
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What I'm up to - March 2024

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

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...
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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
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Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

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,...
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Privacy Monthly June
10th Jun 2024
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Privacy Monthly June

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2024
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Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
26th Sep 2016
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Consider Part-Time Work

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

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...
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The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
19th Mar 2023
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The Illusion of Free Will

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

19th Mar 2023
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
17th Sep 2024
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Pain

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

17th Sep 2024
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
14th Oct 2014
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CSS reset with box-sizing fix

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

14th Oct 2014
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
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New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
5th May 2023
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New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs

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

5th May 2023
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements. Mail The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
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Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
18th Mar 2023
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Overconfidence and future-proofing

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

18th Mar 2023
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
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Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
5th Jun 2022
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Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg

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

5th Jun 2022
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
7th Oct 2018
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Networking Essentials: Congestion Control

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

7th Oct 2018
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
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How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
24th Aug 2024
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How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS

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

24th Aug 2024
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
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Wait, IPython Can Do That?! Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides...
7th Jul 2019
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Wait, IPython Can Do That?!

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

7th Jul 2019
Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides before each conference to incorporate any new ideas that come to my mind and make sure they are up to date, if you are interested in a particular version of the slides, just send me an...
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GitHub is anarchy for programmers
1st Oct 2011
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GitHub is anarchy for programmers

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2011
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Thoughts on AMP Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP...
23rd May 2017
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Thoughts on AMP

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

23rd May 2017
Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat. A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I...
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Singapore H1B1 Tips ## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow...
1st Aug 2018
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Singapore H1B1 Tips

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

1st Aug 2018
## much of the original piece below is outdated. this is my remaining 2023 updates for fellow singaporeans.
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Recently I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so...
29th Aug 2025
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Recently

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

29th Aug 2025
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands I’ve followed, and finding...
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December 2024
1st Dec 2024
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December 2024

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

1st Dec 2024
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
1st Jun 2019
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The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

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

1st Jun 2019
Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
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Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
1st Aug 2024
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Recently

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

1st Aug 2024
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100 Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
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Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
21st May 2022
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Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems

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

21st May 2022
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
12th Mar 2024
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The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now

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

12th Mar 2024
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
5th Aug 2024
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges

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

5th Aug 2024
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
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exponential rate limiting Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed...
3rd Sep 2024
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exponential rate limiting

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

3rd Sep 2024
Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas that I hope will be more broadly interesting. Exponential rate limiting uses an...
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Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
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Making a Website Under 1kB

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

2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are...
12th Sep 2019
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The Rise of the Electric Scooter

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2019
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? On an
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How we designed the PostHog mascot Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
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How we designed the PostHog mascot

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

7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
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Embeddable subscription widget We're making it even easier to build up your subscriber base.
1st Sep 2017
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Embeddable subscription widget

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

1st Sep 2017
We're making it even easier to build up your subscriber base.
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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...
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The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
1st Jan 2020
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The YC Interview

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

1st Jan 2020
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
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A better way to write config files in PHP How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name...
2nd May 2016
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A better way to write config files in PHP

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

2nd May 2016
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file? $db_host = 'localhost'; $db_name = 'somedb'; $db_user = 'someuser'; $db_pass = 'somepass'; Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals: include('config.php'); echo $db_host; //...
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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.
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00 · Beehive Background Contextualizing Beehive
1st Aug 2024
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00 · Beehive Background

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

1st Aug 2024
Contextualizing Beehive
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Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
2nd Jan 2024
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Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - September 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
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What I'm up to - September 2022

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

1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
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What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype? Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to...
16th Aug 2022
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What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2022
Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to Node.js and Deno. But is it as good as it is hyped up to be?
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Cross-Browser JavaScript Scrollbar Detection I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to...
12th Jul 2014
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Cross-Browser JavaScript Scrollbar Detection

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

12th Jul 2014
I recently contributed a fix to the bootstrap framework that detects on-screen scrollbars to determine whether or not the body should be padded when a modal window is opened to prevent shifting of background contents. Detecting on-screen scrollbars turned out to be a bit more...
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4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
9th May 2024
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4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job

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9th May 2024
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Enlightenmentware
20th May 2024
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Enlightenmentware

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th May 2024
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A Splinter In Your Mind Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
15th Nov 2022
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A Splinter In Your Mind

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

15th Nov 2022
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
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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
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The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing

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

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...
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Recomposed: Spring 1 A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about...
1st May 2023
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Recomposed: Spring 1

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

1st May 2023
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth. I am not an engineer and I don't pretend to be one. I have web development chops, but I loathe JavaScript and lean into my design background (CSS...
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
18th Sep 2026
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CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

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

18th Sep 2026
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks. CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this. The...
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Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release...
23rd Oct 2025
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Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users

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

23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever. Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App One of our most requested...
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Real Unfair Advantages It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
19th Jul 2010
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Real Unfair Advantages

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

19th Jul 2010
It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
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Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
6th Jun 2023
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Accurate Predictions

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
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Crypto Twitter With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter...
5th Apr 2022
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Crypto Twitter

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

5th Apr 2022
With Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, now is a good time to consider all the things Twitter should be doing, that it has never done. There are lots of obvious features (edit tweets, longer form content, better user controls, better onboarding, better spam filtering,...
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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
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How I program with LLMs

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

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...
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The World's Smallest Hash Table This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are...
4th Mar 2023
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The World's Smallest Hash Table

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2023
This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
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Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate...
4th Dec 2024
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Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released

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

4th Dec 2024
We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate background jobs that we introduced earlier this year. This new version is the result of 92 pull requests, 67 issues and the help of 35 different contributors. It includes many...
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the...
2nd Nov 2021
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas

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

2nd Nov 2021
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the most important part of any product-focused organization. I think there is a misconception in the software industry that product managers have a good sense of “what users want”,...
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Let's talk about your privates Let's talk about your privates
7th Nov 2021
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Let's talk about your privates

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2021
Let's talk about your privates
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Polar Pong
10th Jun 2012
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Polar Pong

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10th Jun 2012
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Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
8th Jul 2023
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Software engineers hate code.

from Dan Cowell [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2023
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
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What I'm up to - February 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
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What I'm up to - February 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
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Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
15th Aug 2024
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Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2024
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
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Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
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Agents are commoditizing the complement

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

3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.
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Tutorial: stable-structures
20th Jan 2023
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Tutorial: stable-structures

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2023
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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...
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Joining Arcol
25th Apr 2022
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Joining Arcol

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

25th Apr 2022
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Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk Read the post here.
10th Jul 2025
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Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2025
Read the post here.
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
2nd Mar 2018
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo

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

2nd Mar 2018
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
21st Dec 2021
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1

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

21st Dec 2021
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
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The story of Musium
21st Sep 2025
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The story of Musium

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2025
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
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Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
11th Apr 2023
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Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2023
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
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ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
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ioctls from Rust

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

13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
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Why should you learn Golang? [2026] Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for...
8th Feb 2021
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Why should you learn Golang? [2026]

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

8th Feb 2021
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn. As an example, StackOverflow’s Developer survey saw it climb in popularity among developers from 10th in 2019 all the way to 5th in 2020. Additionally,...
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What I want to do at Recurse Center Projects I want to work on at RC
24th Oct 2021
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What I want to do at Recurse Center

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2021
Projects I want to work on at RC
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Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
1st Apr 2025
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Systems model of API deprecation

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

1st Apr 2025
In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
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Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
3rd Nov 2024
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Recently: Cycling and Autumn

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

3rd Nov 2024
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
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A disgusting playbook So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started...
20th Jul 2023
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A disgusting playbook

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

20th Jul 2023
So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started comma, and I probably will fail because of this. Cruise Automation is a good example here. If they told the truth, they would be out of business. In 2016, they were bought by GM for...
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Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure...
8th Mar 2023
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Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon

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

8th Mar 2023
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure elements. But how do we come to trust our secure elements? I have been searching for solutions to this thorny supply chain problem. Ideally, one can directly inspect the...
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So Long, Prog21 I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
4th Jan 2017
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So Long, Prog21

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2017
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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The slopocalypse survival guide Slop is without a doubt everywhere. Be it in restaurant’s menus, music playlists, or online game...
2 weeks ago
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The slopocalypse survival guide

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

2 weeks ago
Slop is without a doubt everywhere. Be it in restaurant’s menus, music playlists, or online game storefronts, it is now impossible to escape it. Yet, I’ve never met anyone who was actually looking forward to consuming that. No matter how hard it’s shoved down our throats, the...
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Rohit Chess fun little board game
10th Mar 2025
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Rohit Chess

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2025
fun little board game
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
3rd Mar 2021
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values

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

3rd Mar 2021
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
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Some terminal frustrations A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
5th Feb 2025
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Some terminal frustrations

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

5th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that...
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How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a...
2nd Oct 2026
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How and Why fork() Uses Copy-on-Write

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

2nd Oct 2026
In this video, we look at why fork() needs copy-on-write, how it works inside the kernel, and a memory usage problem that Instagram encountered with Python.
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Knowledge Laundering I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took...
2nd Aug 2023
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Knowledge Laundering

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

2nd Aug 2023
I was reading Baldur’s recent piece about the transition taking place in open source — which I took notes on — and this excerpt talking about large language models (LLMs) stood out to me: Why give somebody credit for the lines of code you’ve adapted for your own project when you...
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
10th Nov 2014
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes

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

10th Nov 2014
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
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Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
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Middle management roles are also a trap.

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

8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management aspects of the role made being...
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2025 Advice to my old selves I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
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2025 Advice to my old selves

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

15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
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Custom for designing, off-the-shelf for shipping As software engineers, we're paid to write really cool type annotations solve problems. Usually we...
15th Sep 2025
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Custom for designing, off-the-shelf for shipping

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

15th Sep 2025
As software engineers, we're paid to write really cool type annotations solve problems. Usually we do this by taking a bunch of different pieces and putting them together to solve the problem. Maybe you mix together a database, a queue, a web framework, and some business...
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What I'm up to - October 2026 Hello from 10 kilometers over somewhere in the Midwest, as I sit in a tiny airplane seat and...
1st Oct 2026
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What I'm up to - October 2026

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

1st Oct 2026
Hello from 10 kilometers over somewhere in the Midwest, as I sit in a tiny airplane seat and appreciate the privacy screen on my laptop. I've been writing a monthly newsletter here about what I am up to for the last four years.
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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...
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Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise, which refers to one...
6th Jun 2025
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Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

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6th Jun 2025
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise, which refers to one particular implementation with various CPU optimizations. Because it's an incredible tool for creative work, it's used virtually everywhere: visual effects, video games, procedural...
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
31st Dec 2020
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL

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31st Dec 2020
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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How OCaml effects simplified my JSON interpreter How effect handlers removed control-flow plumbing from query-json
3 days ago
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How OCaml effects simplified my JSON interpreter

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3 days ago
How effect handlers removed control-flow plumbing from query-json
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OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the...
5th Jan 2024
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OS 7 Updates and More OS 8 News

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

5th Jan 2024
It’s a new year and that means we’re back from the holidays with new updates! We’re now shipping the latest GNOME Web which includes a new Tab Overview mode. Plus we’re shipping some updated icons for things like the animated downloads icon in the Headerbar and hardware access...
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The Rules of Margin Collapse “Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets...
7th Dec 2020
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The Rules of Margin Collapse

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

7th Dec 2020
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
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Living in the cloud
24th Feb 2011
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Living in the cloud

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Feb 2011
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Raising funding as a first-time founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
26th Feb 2012
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Raising funding as a first-time founder

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

26th Feb 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I can really feel the passion and determination...
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
5th Sep 2023
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways

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

5th Sep 2023
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
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The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
1st Dec 2023
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The UX of HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
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October 2021
1st Oct 2021
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October 2021

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1st Oct 2021
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
8th Dec 2020
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error

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

8th Dec 2020
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
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chatgpt ate my homework What do we do now that chatgpt keeps eating our work? Do we just...give up?
8th Jun 2025
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chatgpt ate my homework

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

8th Jun 2025
What do we do now that chatgpt keeps eating our work? Do we just...give up?
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Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2026 If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web...
5th Sep 2023
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Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2026

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

5th Sep 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
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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
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024

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

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.
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The Web We Want Survey Results 14 May 2020 At the end of July 2019, we kicked off our first live Web We Want session. At the start,...
14th May 2020
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The Web We Want Survey Results

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

14th May 2020
14 May 2020 At the end of July 2019, we kicked off our first live Web We Want session. At the start, we only had a handful of submissions and one person willing to record their lightning talk for the session we ran at An Event Apart D.C. We've come quite a ways since then with...
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
8th Sep 2021
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog

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

8th Sep 2021
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
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Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
3rd Jun 2026
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Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it

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

3rd Jun 2026
A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
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Simple Analytics AI
4th Dec 2023
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Simple Analytics AI

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
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Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key...
5th May 2024
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Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF

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

5th May 2024
A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
30th Jan 2017
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I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2017
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
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How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
19th Oct 2020
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How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies

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

19th Oct 2020
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
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Teaching how to code is broken Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control...
12th Jan 2022
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Teaching how to code is broken

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

12th Jan 2022
Typically: Chapter 1: Types Chapter 2: Variables Chapter 3: Operators/Math Chapter 4: Control structures Chapter 5: Arrays Chapter 6: Functions Chapter 7: Structs Chapter 8: Classes and Objects Chapter 9: Methods Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism Chapter 11: Some advanced...
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Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
1st Mar 2017
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Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative

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

1st Mar 2017
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fibre broadband anticlimax How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road...
17th Sep 2026
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fibre broadband anticlimax

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

17th Sep 2026
How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road down a drive in shared ownership between us and our neighbouring houses. All the utilities are buried under this drive, including the phone line. anticipation Over the last few...
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