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FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet...
24th Aug 2026
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FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac

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

24th Aug 2026
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client
Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019 There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work....
19th Nov 2019
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Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019

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

19th Nov 2019
There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work. Last week, I flew out to Berlin for a few days to attend Beyond Tellerrand. My co-worker Aaron was speaking and running a workshop and I emceed the community focused session we've...
Safari bug with ruby tag *Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
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Safari bug with ruby tag

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) which renders as ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) If you control click...
Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the...
11th Sep 2021
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Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

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

11th Sep 2021
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the censorship was algorithmic or human, it was intentional either way. Details in my new post. Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and...
Announcing FinFam In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup. It's called FinFam, and we're building...
19th Sep 2025
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Announcing FinFam

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Sep 2025
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup. It's called FinFam, and we're building collaborative financial planning. The GitHub of money, if you will. Enough with the telling, time for the show! Here's a 3-minute demo: We launched beta this week and I couldn't be more...
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
1st Mar 2023
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Adding page transitions in SvelteKit

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

1st Mar 2023
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
16th Jun 2025
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Discord considered harmful

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

16th Jun 2025
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
Non-alcoholic apéritifs I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage...
31st Jan 2025
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs

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

31st Jan 2025
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening. Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with lunch. I found some good options. Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia is an NA...
2019: Lessons learned Looks like I've got it all figured out.
13th Dec 2019
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2019: Lessons learned

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

13th Dec 2019
Looks like I've got it all figured out.
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
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
10th Jul 2024
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad

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

10th Jul 2024
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023? Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
5th Feb 2023
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Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2023
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the...
4th Jan 2023
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions

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

4th Jan 2023
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye. Geometry and trigonometry were my two best math areas in school (I am not an Algebra person and generally did not enjoy...
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
11th Oct 2024
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A quick summary

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Oct 2024
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better? My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the...
18th Apr 2024
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Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better?

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

18th Apr 2024
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| Don't push to production |___________| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || /   づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing

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

6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please... Google has created one of the best operating systems...
free trade and the left, ter: mises and my apostasy Good evening. Let’s talk about free trade! Last time, , which looks at how the cause of free trade...
6th Mar 2026
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free trade and the left, ter: mises and my apostasy

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2026
Good evening. Let’s talk about free trade! Last time, , which looks at how the cause of free trade was taken up by a motley crew of anti-imperialists, internationalists, pacifists, marxists, and classical liberals in the nineteenth century. Protectionism was the prerogative of...
What I'm up to - October 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2025
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What I'm up to - October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Spent Labor Day in Boulder - Went to Alchemy Springs Sauna in SF- I'm happy to see...
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?
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

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

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
3rd Feb 2023
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Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers

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

3rd Feb 2023
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
People-First Leadership Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but...
7th Apr 2023
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People-First Leadership

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

7th Apr 2023
Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but actively thriving. People-first leadership offers an approach which consistently cultivates an environment where folks can show up and do their best work, propelling the business...
#33 make me one (input) with everything The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad...
27th Aug 2024
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#33 make me one (input) with everything

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Aug 2024
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad code <label for="textinput">First name</label> <input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name"> Issues and how to fix them The...
What you can do in a decade I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
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What you can do in a decade

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

22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
6th Aug 2021
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Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer

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

6th Aug 2021
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
24th Mar 2018
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CSS Variables

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

24th Mar 2018
CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups

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

4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s...
3rd Jun 2024
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Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou

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

3rd Jun 2024
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit. The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product, as well as...
Is ops a bullshit job? I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
11th Feb 2025
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Is ops a bullshit job?

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

11th Feb 2025
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
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20th Jun 2019
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Easy subscriber filters

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

20th Jun 2019
Want to learn more about your audience. Try subscriber filters!
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
6th Mar 2025
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp

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

6th Mar 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
13th Jan 2023
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Upward assignment in Ruby

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2023
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024 Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
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Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024

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

1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
3rd Aug 2013
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A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup

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

3rd Aug 2013
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
How To Learn Stuff Quickly As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can...
19th Jul 2021
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How To Learn Stuff Quickly

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

19th Jul 2021
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
2nd Aug 2022
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A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?

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

2nd Aug 2022
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
16th Sep 2007
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JavaScript functions for basename and dirname

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

16th Sep 2007
Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
1st Mar 2019
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End-user Programming

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

1st Mar 2019
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
An educational side project What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...
1st Jun 2023
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An educational side project

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

1st Jun 2023
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.
Recently Listening Die In Love by Greet Death Via David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been...
3rd Feb 2026
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Recently

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

3rd Feb 2026
Listening Die In Love by Greet Death Via David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been hustling since 2011. It's great in a simultaneously familiar and innovative way. The album has a great amount of variety: Small Town Cemetery is a really effective quiet, acoustic...
I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
30th Dec 2023
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I have not failed enough

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2023
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
Stop trying to build the next unicorn So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy...
2nd Sep 2014
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Stop trying to build the next unicorn

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

2nd Sep 2014
So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy office building out in the valley? That's cool. By the same odds we'll both be rich, because I'm holding tonight's winning lotto ticket. Your idea probably won't be the next big thing...
Converting a URL Object to a Plain Object in JavaScript I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's...
22nd Mar 2023
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Converting a URL Object to a Plain Object in JavaScript

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

22nd Mar 2023
I needed to convert a URL object to a plain object yesterday. You might have used it before. It's pretty handy for working with URLs! const url = new URL('https://example.com/'); console.log(url); // URL {origin: 'https://example.com', protocol: 'https:', username: '',...
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
6th Mar 2008
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But we haven't even mastered Acid2!

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

6th Mar 2008
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
Piano Four-Hands Arrangement (Wedding Gift) As a wedding gift for Chelsea I arranged a piano four-hands version of the song her dad wrote to...
19th Sep 2013
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Piano Four-Hands Arrangement (Wedding Gift)

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

19th Sep 2013
As a wedding gift for Chelsea I arranged a piano four-hands version of the song her dad wrote to sing her to sleep.
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024 Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope...
3rd Jan 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024

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

3rd Jan 2024
Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope you were able to spend some time with family and friends. I spent the whole week driving up and down the state of Utah. It was fun, but I’m happy to be back in my office. Kids can...
A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application,...
26th Sep 2025
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A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications

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

26th Sep 2025
A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application, and the abstract properties of each layer.
Berkeley Mono February Update Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is...
6th Feb 2022
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Berkeley Mono February Update

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

6th Feb 2022
Hey Gang! First of all, thank you to everyone that participated in the Beta program. Feedback is very much appreciated. Here is a quick update on the progress: Website - Berkeleygraphics.com It is already up: https://berkeleygraphics.com but does not have the Berkeley Mono pages...
What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive... Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
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11th Aug 2016
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
Don't make me read your PR description I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
3rd Feb 2023
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Don't make me read your PR description

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

3rd Feb 2023
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
notes from Naval (2025) someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting...
6th Jul 2025
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notes from Naval (2025)

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

6th Jul 2025
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to Market Yourself Without Being A Celebrity and "Play Long Term Games with Long Term People". HTGR also...
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024) The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear...
27th Nov 2024
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Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024)

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

27th Nov 2024
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent display of fascism. (Don’t call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be chaotic and disruptive to many...
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
3rd Mar 2022
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Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances

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

3rd Mar 2022
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
10th Jun 2019
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Apple is Listening

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

10th Jun 2019
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele] I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
12th Sep 2012
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Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele]

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

12th Sep 2012
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
Speeding up JavaScript function with AI help A new JavaScript library pretext for fast text measuring / layout popped up on social...
29th Mar 2026
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Speeding up JavaScript function with AI help

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

29th Mar 2026
A new JavaScript library pretext for fast text measuring / layout popped up on social media. Potentially interesting given its focus on speeding up text rendering in web apps and me writing web apps and liking them being fast. I looked at the code and saw a function isCJK()....
Happier development On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
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Happier development

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

26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft

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

7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
Treat it as finished * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
3rd Apr 2011
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Treat it as finished

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

3rd Apr 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most important differences for me personally in how I’ve run my current startup compared to the last one I founded has been how I treat the product at each stage of the process. With...
OCaml documentation as markdown Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
3rd Mar 2026
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OCaml documentation as markdown

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

3rd Mar 2026
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags! You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
9th Aug 2023
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You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!

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

9th Aug 2023
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
8th Mar 2021
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Complex numbers and conformal mapping

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

8th Mar 2021
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
The Yoto Mini is Perfect The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and...
24th May 2024
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The Yoto Mini is Perfect

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

24th May 2024
The Yoto Mini is one of my favorite products. The team behind it deeply understands its users and put just the right set of features into a brilliantly designed package. I have no affiliation with Yoto, I’m just a happy customer with kids who love it. If you aren’t aware, Yoto...
Asiajin Meetup Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what...
9th Oct 2010
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Asiajin Meetup

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2010
Today I attended [the second Asiajin meetup]. Asiajin is an English language blog that covers what is going on in the Japanese internet space. About 20 people participated, with over half the attendees being Japanese. This surprised me, as the blog's target is English speakers,...
Breaking Barbarian This week in a Svelte Radio recording, @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely...
7th Aug 2022
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Breaking Barbarian

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

7th Aug 2022
This week in a Svelte Radio recording, @rich-harris commented that something I said was "uniquely swyx": an offhand observation that "we are all professional streamers now" ^1 . I responded that I've been calling this behavior "barbarianism" - you can listen to the full...
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
19th Apr 2020
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Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

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

19th Apr 2020
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
13th Nov 2019
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Clever Code Considered Harmful

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

13th Nov 2019
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
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...
Offline spellcheck In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly...
14th Aug 2017
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Offline spellcheck

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

14th Aug 2017
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly atrocious at spelling. In Vim, which I use for email via Mutt, I can use :set spell. In Emacs I can use flyspell-mode. Browsers all have spellcheck now, seemingly. Still… sometimes I...
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
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CSS Slope Graphs

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

7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
6th Jul 2023
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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

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

6th Jul 2023
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
1st Sep 2024
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Numbers go up.

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

1st Sep 2024
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
15th Dec 2023
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Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?

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

15th Dec 2023
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
14th Mar 2025
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?

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

14th Mar 2025
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
26th Apr 2012
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Early one morning

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

26th Apr 2012
The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
9th Oct 2024
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How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
How Fireship wins YouTube
When complaints are a good sign When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
27th Sep 2024
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When complaints are a good sign

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Sep 2024
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices. These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
LAKE.app Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake...
31st Aug 2021
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LAKE.app

from Project: LAKE.app - Chris Dzombak [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2021
Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake Michigan crashing at the shore. It’s around 14~15 minutes long, and it loops perfectly. The app’s “artwork,” such as it is, consists of two
Material Rewards for Motivation Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
13th Jul 2015
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Material Rewards for Motivation

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

13th Jul 2015
Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals. Set SMART Goals In order to...
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
4th Nov 2022
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero

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

4th Nov 2022
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Why I&#x27;m going to Hawaii with my co-founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder...
2nd Mar 2013
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Why I&#x27;m going to Hawaii with my co-founder

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

2nd Mar 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] and I are headed to Hawaii tomorrow morning for a 10 day trip. I just emailed the team, and I thought in line with one of our core...
Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
1st Jul 2026
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Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents

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

1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
The upvote dilemma Hiding upvotes on the discovery feed
yesterday
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The upvote dilemma

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

yesterday
Hiding upvotes on the discovery feed
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
24th Jul 2021
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Sharing The Things We Use

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

24th Jul 2021
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS

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

19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
5th Mar 2025
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March 2025

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

5th Mar 2025
Small Web Just Got Bigger Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart...
12th Mar 2026
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Small Web Just Got Bigger

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

12th Mar 2026
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
4th Sep 2015
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Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos

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

4th Sep 2015
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
Thanks, 201X! Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
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Thanks, 201X!

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade. Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional software engineering. The Quantity I can't possibly summarize it...
Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
7th Jan 2024
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Speculative Calendar Events

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

7th Jan 2024
Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
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Qvault is moving to Boot.dev

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

7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
My first two weeks at Igalia After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home...
22nd Mar 2024
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My first two weeks at Igalia

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

22nd Mar 2024
After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home after 2 years away from the web platform space. There is so much new information about web platform projects to digest and I've been slowly figuring out how things work around...
The commodification of travel How travel has become an act of collection
22nd Apr 2026
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The commodification of travel

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

22nd Apr 2026
How travel has become an act of collection
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...
Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
1st Jun 2024
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2024
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
Boot.dev Beat. January 2023 If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. January 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
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Three Jobs of Containers

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

1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
Back to the office Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
7th Oct 2022
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Back to the office

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

7th Oct 2022
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Incentives My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
1st Mar 2024
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Incentives

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

1st Mar 2024
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
22nd Jul 2024
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finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2024
Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
2nd Jul 2023
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Dolphin 🐬

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

2nd Jul 2023
Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
Man cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
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Man cereal

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

3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
20th Mar 2023
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Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning

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

20th Mar 2023
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
1st Apr 2019
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How to create an accessible React modal

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

1st Apr 2019
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
15th Sep 2011
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
20th Feb 2018
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Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development

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

20th Feb 2018
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your efficiency.
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
12th Feb 2015
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Go package for better guid generation

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

12th Feb 2015
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
Ho Rudolph Rudolph claps back.
24th Dec 2013
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Ho Rudolph

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

24th Dec 2013
Rudolph claps back.
A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
1st Nov 2020
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A History of Cyborgs

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

1st Nov 2020
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
I ranked 5th in the Indie Dev Game Jam #4! I wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune…
20th Jul 2024
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I ranked 5th in the Indie Dev Game Jam #4!

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2024
I wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune…
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
4th Nov 2023
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End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk

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

4th Nov 2023
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
Git annex notes Setup New repo init git: git init init git annex: git annex init local Add S3 Remote named...
13th May 2015
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Git annex notes

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

13th May 2015
Setup New repo init git: git init init git annex: git annex init local Add S3 Remote named public-s3 git annex initremote public-s3 type=S3 encryption=none bucket=tyler.zone chunk=0 Add file to git annex git annex add [big-file] copy current directory to public-s3 remote git...
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
14th Mar 2018
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Overcast 4.1 now available

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

14th Mar 2018
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
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Qvault is moving to Boot.dev

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

7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
Getting people to tell you you're wrong One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you. They trust you...
6th Mar 2023
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Getting people to tell you you're wrong

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

6th Mar 2023
One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you. They trust you a lot, and there might be less pushback on ideas than there should be. This makes sense. To become a staff+ engineer, you usually need to be really good at this intersection of...
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
23rd May 2022
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My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects

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

23rd May 2022
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created. Finding Campsites My wife...
What I'm up to - July 2022 This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
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What I'm up to - July 2022

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

1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
Stanislav Petrov A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on...
4th Feb 2025
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Stanislav Petrov

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

4th Feb 2025
A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on September 26th, 1983. His name was Stanislav Petrov. Protocol dictated that the Soviet Union would retaliate against any nuclear strikes sent by the United States. This was a policy...
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
30th Jun 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023

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

30th Jun 2023
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications (Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
25th Oct 2019
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Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications

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

25th Oct 2019
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
What I'm up to - August 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
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What I'm up to - August 2024

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

1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
Web We Want Progress Update - November 2020 13 November 2020 We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they...
13th Nov 2020
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Web We Want Progress Update - November 2020

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

13th Nov 2020
13 November 2020 We've been driving the Web We Want for over a year now, asking developers what they think is missing from the web platform or DevTools. Before COVID-19, we had run 9 WWW sessions at events with plans to do more. Behind the scenes we’ve been working out a plan on...
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible...
3rd Nov 2023
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Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes

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

3rd Nov 2023
The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s always just one path, defined by evolution from one state to the next. But in a...
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 Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [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...
A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
8th Apr 2024
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A 2-Axis, Multihead Light Positioner

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

8th Apr 2024
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the focus stage, light source, and methodology used to...
Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for...
4th May 2021
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang

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

4th May 2021
The Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string. For example, if we concatenate "hello", " " and "world" we’d get "hello world".
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
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What is psephology?

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Introducing Workshop New newsletter about work in progress
1st Nov 2025
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Introducing Workshop

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

1st Nov 2025
New newsletter about work in progress
Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice....
29th Sep 2024
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Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas

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

29th Sep 2024
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice. Dice are cubes and would be most convincingly rendered with 3D graphics. But because these dice are only a tiny part of this project, I was reluctant to call out the big guns. I...
Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

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

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
6th Jul 2019
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses

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

6th Jul 2019
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

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

22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
8th Apr 2023
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Excuse me, is there a problem?

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

8th Apr 2023
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use...
14th Jul 2021
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A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed

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

14th Jul 2021
A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed is industries with a lot of gravitas thinking that their use cases are somehow different and special. Somehow, the thinking becomes “our UI component is different because we deal with healthcare/banking/taxes/etc.” The opposite, however, is...
Intro to Vim Talk I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
16th Jan 2014
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Intro to Vim Talk

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

16th Jan 2014
I gave a talk at the San Francisco Vim Enthusiasts user group.
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
8th Jan 2024
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Six

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

8th Jan 2024
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024) I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
11th May 2023
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(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)

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

11th May 2023
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
15th Feb 2026
how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant,...
23rd Oct 2025
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how fast is java? Teaching an old dog new tricks

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

23rd Oct 2025
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant, obtuse, bloated beast only used by those who have no other choice because some enterprise corporate believed the hype train of the 90s. But is that all still true today?
On becoming a day person My biggest game-changer
19th Mar 2026
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On becoming a day person

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

19th Mar 2026
My biggest game-changer
Lost confidence RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without...
21st Jun 2026
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Lost confidence

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

21st Jun 2026
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
25th Apr 2014
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Globally install PHP command-line tools with Composer

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

25th Apr 2014
How to install CLI tools wiht Composer.
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
13th Nov 2019
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Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century

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

13th Nov 2019
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
9th Jul 2021
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How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup

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

9th Jul 2021
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Building in public forces true competitive advantage “Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it...
20th Dec 2016
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Building in public forces true competitive advantage

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

20th Dec 2016
“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
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...
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
1st Feb 2020
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Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine

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

1st Feb 2020
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
ephemerons vs generations in whippet Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they...
9th Jan 2025
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ephemerons vs generations in whippet

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2025
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
17th Feb 2025
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
25th Aug 2017
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Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling

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

25th Aug 2017
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
Write the most clever code you possibly can I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
8th May 2025
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Write the most clever code you possibly can

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

8th May 2025
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead! New Logic for Programmers release! v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
Paleolithic Nostalgia Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
20th Jun 2021
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Paleolithic Nostalgia

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

20th Jun 2021
Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient...
15th Oct 2025
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I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

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

15th Oct 2025
Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file. Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work. Christmas Lights Diarrhea Most color themes...
Taming Floating-Point Sums Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think...
25th May 2024
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Taming Floating-Point Sums

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

25th May 2024
Suppose you have an array of floating-point numbers, and wish to sum them. You might naively think you can simply add them, e.g. in Rust: fn naive_sum(arr: &[f32]) -> f32 { let mut out = 0.0; for x in arr { out += *x; } out } This however can easily...
Kubernetes at Work Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren...
20th Jun 2020
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Kubernetes at Work

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

20th Jun 2020
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
7th May 2023
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

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

7th May 2023
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
25th Feb 2018
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Let's Learn CSS Variables!

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

25th Feb 2018
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
Convergence Is Not Enough Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
27th Jul 2026
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Convergence Is Not Enough

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

27th Jul 2026
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
World66.ai Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides...
2nd Jul 2026
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World66.ai

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

2nd Jul 2026
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
3rd May 2021
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A personal update

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

3rd May 2021
In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
3rd Jul 2025
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

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

3rd Jul 2025
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
Multitrack Video: "In My Room" On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My...
4th Jan 2010
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Multitrack Video: "In My Room"

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

4th Jan 2010
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My Room'.
Strings do too many things No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual...
8th Feb 2024
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Strings do too many things

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

8th Feb 2024
No Newsletter next week TLA+ Workshop and moving places. Strings do too many things In the unusual basis types email1 I wrote this about strings: We use strings for identifiers, human writing, structured data, and grammars. If you instead use symbols for identifiers then you can...
21st Sep 2025
25th Oct 2021
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
14th Apr 2023
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN

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

14th Apr 2023
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
24th Dec 2022
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Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It

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

24th Dec 2022
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
19th Jan 2026
How to Properly Use Defer in Golang What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows...
1st Jun 2021
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How to Properly Use Defer in Golang

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

1st Jun 2021
What is the “defer” keyword in Go? 🔗 In the Go programming language, defer is a keyword that allows developers to delay the execution of a function until the current function returns. What throws some people off is that the deferred function’s arguments are evaluated...
What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
2nd Oct 2023
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What would a web app canary look like?

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

2nd Oct 2023
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
4th Nov 2020
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Array 1.16.0

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

4th Nov 2020
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
1st Oct 2020
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020

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

1st Oct 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
Being a good co-worker is your job now In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at...
3rd Jan 2024
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Being a good co-worker is your job now

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

3rd Jan 2024
In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at meetings.
Stuff I've been working on It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a...
7th Oct 2024
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Stuff I've been working on

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

7th Oct 2024
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on. Meme...
Why you should continue working on your bad idea * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick...
1st Sep 2012
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea

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

1st Sep 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are...
Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip “Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus,...
19th Dec 2022
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Towards a More Open Secure Element Chip

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

19th Dec 2022
“Secure Element” (SE) chips have traditionally taken a very closed-source, NDA-heavy approach. Thus, it piqued my interest when an early-stage SE chip startup, Cramium (still in stealth mode), approached me to advise on open source strategy. This blog post explains my reasoning...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
9th Jan 2025
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Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp

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

9th Jan 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
Folders are dead, long live folders Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in...
3rd Nov 2025
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Folders are dead, long live folders

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2025
Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in for physical folders and filing cabinets pioneered by Xerox and first seen in their Alto machine. The metaphor helped early computer users map the new digital world onto something...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
9th Nov 2020
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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

9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

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

17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
Spelunking desktop apps saves time Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the...
20th Apr 2020
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time

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

20th Apr 2020
Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the bookmarks plist 2. Update the Tower database 3. Open Tower Lessons ¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time ¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code) I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI...
23rd Dec 2025
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How We Replaced Our Entire Search Engine (with an AI writing half the code)

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

23rd Dec 2025
I've been dunking on AI pretty consistently on this blog. Not to mention I'm sick of all the AI influencer "built 15 apps in a weekend" crowd, but Claude Code just did something wild for me. Had it help us rip out our entire search engine - we're talking millions and millions of...
EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
20th Jul 2024
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EndBASIC 0.11 is here

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

20th Jul 2024
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
Recently Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of...
4th Oct 2025
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Recently

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

4th Oct 2025
Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of articles saved on Instapaper. In general I love reading stuff from the internet but refuse to do it with a computer or a phone: I don’t want all my stuff to glow! So, this led me to an abortive...
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