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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
2nd Jun 2024
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown

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

2nd Jun 2024
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
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The Accidental DBA This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving...
2nd Oct 2016
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The Accidental DBA

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

2nd Oct 2016
This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving MongoDB and data loss, this time by some company called “CleverTap”. Recap To summarize: the CleverTap engineering team noticed that the WiredTiger storage engine was faster than...
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans

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

2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive. As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
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The Fidelity Trap If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now...
3rd Jul 2025
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The Fidelity Trap

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

3rd Jul 2025
If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now engineers.  LLMs have dramatically reduced the barrier to building something and designers who’ve never been able to go beyond a spaghetti Figma prototype suddenly feel like Superman. But...
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Listen Faster: How I found 30 extra hours in my week I’ve added the equivalent of 30 hours to my week, all dedicated to reading and listening.
22nd Jun 2016
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Listen Faster: How I found 30 extra hours in my week

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

22nd Jun 2016
I’ve added the equivalent of 30 hours to my week, all dedicated to reading and listening.
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
3rd Jul 2024
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk

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

3rd Jul 2024
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
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Some terminal frustrations A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
5th Feb 2025
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Some terminal frustrations

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

5th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that...
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COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
6th Aug 2013
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COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models

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

6th Aug 2013
Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
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Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
18th May 2018
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Searching the Creative Internet

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

18th May 2018
Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
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How to Lead Better User Interviews
12th Jun 2018
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How to Lead Better User Interviews

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

12th Jun 2018
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
2nd Jul 2025
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit

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

2nd Jul 2025
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
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Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
29th Oct 2022
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Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code

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

29th Oct 2022
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
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Chickadee 0.6.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
19th Nov 2020
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Chickadee 0.6.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
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Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
10th Sep 2013
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Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse

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

10th Sep 2013
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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
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
8th Sep 2021
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog

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

8th Sep 2021
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
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NaNoWriMo and the creative power of looming fear A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
1st Nov 2025
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NaNoWriMo and the creative power of looming fear

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

1st Nov 2025
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
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HIPAA violations
3rd Oct 2023
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HIPAA violations

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

3rd Oct 2023
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An Interlisp file viewer in Common Lisp <![CDATA[I wrote ILsee, an Interlisp source file viewer. It is the first of the ILtools collection...
16th Jan 2026
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An Interlisp file viewer in Common Lisp

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

16th Jan 2026
<![CDATA[I wrote ILsee, an Interlisp source file viewer. It is the first of the ILtools collection of tools for viewing and accessing Interlisp data. I developed ILsee in Common Lisp on Linux with SBCL and the McCLIM implementation of the CLIM GUI toolkit. SLY for Emacs...
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The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
11th Mar 2019
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The OpenAI Mission

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2019
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization" In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization"

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

22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
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Account History Finding moments from before
17th Mar 2026
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Account History

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

17th Mar 2026
Finding moments from before
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never give up Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
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never give up

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

30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
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Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
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Plain Text Emails, Please

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

9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

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

15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
23rd Aug 2026
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

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

23rd Aug 2026
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
9th Jan 2023
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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

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

9th Jan 2023
ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
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Mission Control — Web You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
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Mission Control — Web

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

9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
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libfive
6th Jan 2018
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libfive

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

6th Jan 2018
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A proposal: how to hire junior engineers in the age of AI
3 days ago
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A proposal: how to hire junior engineers in the age of AI

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

3 days ago
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Crash Safari with the Web Audio API Discovering, reproducing, and working around a bug that crashes Safari hard.
15th Aug 2017
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Crash Safari with the Web Audio API

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

15th Aug 2017
Discovering, reproducing, and working around a bug that crashes Safari hard.
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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.
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
11th Nov 2022
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG

from Fathy Boundjadj [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2022
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches. Take a picture Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
22nd Sep 2023
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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

22nd Sep 2023
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About...
12th Mar 2026
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Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About guile-bstructs Guile-bstructs is a library that provides structured read/write access to binary data for Guile. A bstruct (short for “binary structure”) is a data type that encapsulates a bytevector and a...
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024 The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024

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

7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
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Know your “One Job” and do it first Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be...
7th Mar 2021
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Know your “One Job” and do it first

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

7th Mar 2021
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options and developing a schema management tool, keep slipping. But she is one of HR’s...
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React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)
22nd Apr 2025
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React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)

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

22nd Apr 2025
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Programmer's introduction to linear equations [republished in Ukrainian] The same as https://wordsandbuttons.online/programmers_introduction_to_linear_equations.html only in...
5th Jan 2019
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Programmer's introduction to linear equations [republished in Ukrainian]

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

5th Jan 2019
The same as https://wordsandbuttons.online/programmers_introduction_to_linear_equations.html only in Ukrainian.
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

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

2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?
9th Jul 2025
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Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?

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

9th Jul 2025
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How to Thought Lead (2026) I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
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How to Thought Lead (2026)

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

14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
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Contentful: How to Find Unused Types Read the post here.
17th Aug 2023
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Contentful: How to Find Unused Types

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

17th Aug 2023
Read the post here.
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Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
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Adventures in pixel space

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

30th Mar 2025
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What's your newsletter's North Star? A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
11th Oct 2024
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What's your newsletter's North Star?

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

11th Oct 2024
A lodestar makes it easier for people to find you, follow you, and share your work.
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
28th Dec 2019
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

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

28th Dec 2019
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
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Will AI kill SaaS helpdesks? Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ...
12th Jan 2026
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Will AI kill SaaS helpdesks?

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

12th Jan 2026
Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ and canned responses and let it answer tickets - right? I (obviously) gave it a lot of thought recently and here's my take: If your entire support operation is one person...
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

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

1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
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Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
11th Jul 2022
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Statements Vs. Expressions

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

11th Jul 2022
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
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Advanced Promises Coordination: Serialization and Concurrency Limiting I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises...
20th Jun 2018
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Advanced Promises Coordination: Serialization and Concurrency Limiting

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

20th Jun 2018
I'm sure you can chain promises with doBefore().then(() => doAfter()) and even run multiple promises in parallel using Promise.any. However, chaining an unknown count of homogenous promises is trickier. Let me teach you to serialze promises like a pro! Suppose we want a list of...
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Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The...
4th Jan 2024
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Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik

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

4th Jan 2024
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi. The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub. This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
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Where the Bitter Lesson ends Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
27th Mar 2024
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Where the Bitter Lesson ends

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

27th Mar 2024
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering. Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
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How to use Next.js middleware Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access,...
1st Nov 2021
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How to use Next.js middleware

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2021
Middleware functions can be used for all sorts such as redirecting, rewriting, preventing access, and more. Let’s take a look.
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Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
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Bright Barley

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2022
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
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Becoming American
7th Sep 2018
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Becoming American

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

7th Sep 2018
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Job Interviews By Zombies The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the...
18th Jan 2022
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Job Interviews By Zombies

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

18th Jan 2022
The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the moment, we’re hiring. As I’m interviewing people, I’m struck by how hard some folks make it for me to give them a “yes.” Candidates tend to murmur things like, “we decided to move...
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Truths about digital accessibility Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
24

Truths about digital accessibility

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

29th Jul 2019
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional): Each screen reader behaves differently This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
24th May 2023
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2023
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the...
7th Dec 2025
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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

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

7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with the field. We will look at 4 demos:...
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
21st Jun 2019
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense

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

21st Jun 2019
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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What I'm up to - May 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
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What I'm up to - May 2025

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

1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

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

8th Feb 2020
Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
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My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
21st Nov 2023
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My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Nov 2023
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
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Blooms and roots embroidery I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am...
26th Aug 2022
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Blooms and roots embroidery

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

26th Aug 2022
I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am often wont to do, I deviated from the prescribed stitches, especially in the roots section so the different flowers had distinct roots. Here's the finished piece:
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Compare analytics from multiple emails Our analytics update makes it easier to compare the performance of different emails
2nd Jul 2020
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Compare analytics from multiple emails

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

2nd Jul 2020
Our analytics update makes it easier to compare the performance of different emails
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Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web...
22nd Feb 2021
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Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers

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

22nd Feb 2021
Here's a quick tip to estimate the number of your RSS subscribers. All you need is access to the web server logs. Let's filter the logs for the RSS file names (in my case it's atom.xml and feed.json): cat access.log | grep -e atom.xml -e feed.json When looking through my logs,...
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Erizo
6th Oct 2019
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Erizo

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

6th Oct 2019
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Familiar Spirits The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...
14th Dec 2022
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Familiar Spirits

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

14th Dec 2022
The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
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Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022
31st May 2022
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Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022

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

31st May 2022
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Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
9th Mar 2025
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Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect

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

9th Mar 2025
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
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Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
4th Mar 2025
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Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1

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

4th Mar 2025
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
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Grab browser links and titles in one click When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
3rd Jan 2025
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Grab browser links and titles in one click

from Dariusz Winkler | Software development [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2025
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
5th Jun 2023
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Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2023
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
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Gig Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in...
2nd Jun 2020
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Gig

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

2nd Jun 2020
Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in February earlier this year, before the pandemic had really hit in the UK. Feels like a lifetime ago now. I miss it.
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My Biggest Mistake… So Far My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right...
2nd Dec 2015
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My Biggest Mistake… So Far

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

2nd Dec 2015
My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right Amount of Selfish ¶My Biggest Mistake… So Far ¶or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity Check out this video from a couple of weeks ago: Selfless vs SelfishDid you notice the...
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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...
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Guix for development This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...
23rd Sep 2022
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Guix for development

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2022
This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...
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IC internals: XNet protocol
1st Jul 2022
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IC internals: XNet protocol

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

1st Jul 2022
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Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
23rd Mar 2025
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Occlusion with Bells On

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

23rd Mar 2025
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
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Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
6th Apr 2023
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Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)

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

6th Apr 2023
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My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure...
24th Oct 2023
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My Wikipedia Entry For Trapeze

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

24th Oct 2023
Maury Markowitz wrote up the story of Trapeze (covered earlier in this blog) on Wikipedia. It sure seems like a long time ago.
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Colorful Spectrum Analyzer
11th Sep 2009
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Colorful Spectrum Analyzer

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

11th Sep 2009
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Working Out, Gaining Weight, and Building Muscle in Japan—For Cheap When I arrived in Japan in September 2023, I was a skinny 23-year-old guy, measuring 178 centimeters...
7th May 2026
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Working Out, Gaining Weight, and Building Muscle in Japan—For Cheap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2026
When I arrived in Japan in September 2023, I was a skinny 23-year-old guy, measuring 178 centimeters tall and weighing around 55 kilograms. I had been a stick man all my life, and after a couple of months in Tokyo, I even lost a couple more kilos—probably due to the...
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
16th Dec 2025
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks

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

16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
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Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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Improving Github's New Design

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

7th Jul 2020
Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
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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
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

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

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
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River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
11th Nov 2023
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River Flows

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

11th Nov 2023
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
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My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I...
11th Jul 2023
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My jeans’ metadata may outlive the company that sold them

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

11th Jul 2023
I buy clothing in sudden bursts of need. I do this because I wear things past the point where I probably should not, and then rush to address the gap so I don’t look strange on a Zoom call or at the grocery store. This is to say that quarantine has melted my brain. Speaking of...
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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.
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Designing a version In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
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Designing a version

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a proper versioning scheme. Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
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This RSS feed has moved to a new domain I have recently moved my website to a new domain. My old posts may reappear in your feed reader —...
5 days ago
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This RSS feed has moved to a new domain

from Dariusz Winkler | Software development [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 days ago
I have recently moved my website to a new domain. My old posts may reappear in your feed reader — sorry for the inconvenience! I redirect the RSS feed to the new domain, but you might want to update the URL in your reader. I've also merged my dev, photography, and personal posts...
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WebAssembly is more than just the web
13th Jul 2018
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WebAssembly is more than just the web

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

13th Jul 2018
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A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
10th Mar 2019
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A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

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

10th Mar 2019
The absolute minimum you need to know about data storage
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Git the stupid password store .title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on...
31st Jul 2024
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Git the stupid password store

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

31st Jul 2024
.title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on your mood. – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell Like most git features, gitcredentials(7) are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
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Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from...
10th Sep 2021
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Optimize for not breaking up with your co-founder

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

10th Sep 2021
Last week we had an offsite in the beautiful Portuguese countryside, an hour's bus journey from Porto. We uploaded a highlight reel of the retreat to…
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What I'm up to - September 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
1st Sep 2026
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What I'm up to - September 2026

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

1st Sep 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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

15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Statistics made simple I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe...
15th Dec 2025
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Statistics made simple

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

15th Dec 2025
I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe once or twice a year. It’s because analytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand? I mean, sure, you might try to...
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
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What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
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What I'm up to - December 2025

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

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
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Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
5th Apr 2019
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Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go

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

5th Apr 2019
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
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Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
21st Oct 2023
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Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.

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

21st Oct 2023
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my...
4 weeks ago
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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?

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

4 weeks ago
Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
3rd Nov 2021
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist

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

3rd Nov 2021
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
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Snapshot tests for your own ppx
1st Jan 2025
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Snapshot tests for your own ppx

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

1st Jan 2025
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The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing 3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
17th Dec 2024
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The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing

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

17th Dec 2024
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
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fibre broadband anticlimax How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road...
17th Sep 2026
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fibre broadband anticlimax

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

17th Sep 2026
How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road down a drive in shared ownership between us and our neighbouring houses. All the utilities are buried under this drive, including the phone line. anticipation Over the last few...
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What I'm up to - September 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2024
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What I'm up to - September 2024

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

1st Sep 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in August Hello from a train somewhere in the French countryside. I just finished spending a few d...
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Recently This’ll be the last Recently in 2025. It’s been a decent year for me, a pretty rough year for the...
1st Dec 2025
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Recently

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

1st Dec 2025
This’ll be the last Recently in 2025. It’s been a decent year for me, a pretty rough year for the rest of the world. I hope, for everyone, that 2026 sees the reversal of some of the current trends. Watching This video from Daniel Yang, who makes spectacular bikes of his...
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Advice on looking for a new software engineering job I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this...
18th Jan 2021
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Advice on looking for a new software engineering job

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

18th Jan 2021
I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2006, which means I've been doing this long enough that people now ask me for advice. I've only changed jobs 3 times in my career, so I'm not sure I'm an expert. However, I decided I should write down my advice, to...
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Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud &#038; Vercel costs Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called...
25th Mar 2025
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Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud &#038; Vercel costs

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2025
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years. I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about reducing...
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Adding graphics support to DandeGUI <![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output...
4th Jun 2025
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Adding graphics support to DandeGUI

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

4th Jun 2025
<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp. In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
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Why Build a Robot Company? So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
6th Feb 2023
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Why Build a Robot Company?

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

6th Feb 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
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Observability is a Many-Splendored Definition Last weekend, @swyx posted a great little primer to instrumentation titled “Observability Tools in...
3rd Mar 2020
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Observability is a Many-Splendored Definition

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

3rd Mar 2020
Last weekend, @swyx posted a great little primer to instrumentation titled “Observability Tools in JavaScript”.  A friend sent me the link and suggested that I might want to respond and clarify some things about observability, so I did, and we had a great conversation!  Here is a...
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If people would just Building systems that incentivise good behaviour
2 weeks ago
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If people would just

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

2 weeks ago
Building systems that incentivise good behaviour
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No sacred masterpieces Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
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No sacred masterpieces

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

15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
24th Sep 2019
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Welcome, Prashanth!

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

24th Sep 2019
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
10th Feb 2025
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals

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

10th Feb 2025
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
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Opening a new window after an async operation I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in...
28th Aug 2018
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Opening a new window after an async operation

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

28th Aug 2018
I was working on an OAuth implementation the other day and needed to open a third-party auth page in a new window. However, I needed to fetch the target URL from the server first, then open the window. Kinda like this: const button =...
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Speeding up code with vectorization I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people...
17th Apr 2020
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Speeding up code with vectorization

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

17th Apr 2020
I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When I talk to people about my problems, they usually suggest multithreading and general-purpose GPU computing. These both have downsides. Multithreading might not be the best option in systems that...
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Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
9th May 2013
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Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?

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

9th May 2013
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
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Let's talk about your privates Let's talk about your privates
7th Nov 2021
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Let's talk about your privates

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

7th Nov 2021
Let's talk about your privates
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Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
4th Jan 2017
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Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size

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

4th Jan 2017
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
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Doo-Wop Multitrack: "Earth Angel" (for Chelsea) I recorded a doo-wop arrangement of 'Earth Angel' for my girlfriend Chelsea.
17th Jan 2009
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Doo-Wop Multitrack: "Earth Angel" (for Chelsea)

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

17th Jan 2009
I recorded a doo-wop arrangement of 'Earth Angel' for my girlfriend Chelsea.
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All about QA Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
15th Oct 2024
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All about QA

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

15th Oct 2024
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
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The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
6th Dec 2024
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The Elon Swing Voter

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

6th Dec 2024
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search

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

4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
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Code reviews And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
5th Dec 2025
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Code reviews

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

5th Dec 2025
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
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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.
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2025 The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how...
31st Jan 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2025

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

31st Jan 2026
The Ware for December 2025 is a Spectral Instruments Series 800 camera. I was pretty shocked at how quickly this was guessed given the very small portion of the instrument that was shown, but, then again – that’s how it goes sometimes. Congrats to johslarsen for nailing this one;...
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Trying the Software factory pattern. One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge...
20th Sep 2026
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Trying the Software factory pattern.

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

20th Sep 2026
One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint this year has been...
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2023 Book Roundup My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 Book Roundup

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

1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
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Reflections at 44, Tofu, Ancient Robots, Fanny Crosby 44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are...
24th Oct 2025
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Reflections at 44, Tofu, Ancient Robots, Fanny Crosby

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

24th Oct 2025
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are two repeating numbers. Other numbers that have come to mind are 22, 44, and 88. At 22,  I had just graduated from college with a computer science degree during a mild recession,...
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Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly...
2nd Apr 2024
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Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown

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

2nd Apr 2024
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly newsletter about design, typography, and creativity.
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they...
11th Mar 2026
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Analyse and run simulations on your energy usage

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2026
I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they used to have a useful insights dashboard that let me analyse my power usage. Well, they seem to have removed it so I built a handy dashboard that anyone can use. It’s at...
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Archive search Archive search
1st Jul 2024
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Archive search

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

1st Jul 2024
Archive search
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We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
5th Aug 2025
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We Are Still the Web

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

5th Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become? I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my...
13th Jun 2023
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Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become?

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

13th Jun 2023
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my internet connection at sea. Reading a relatively lightweight site like Google News generally gave me time to get an ice cream cone before the page appeared. Has everyone abandoned...
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Swearing and automatic captions Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make...
5th Dec 2022
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Swearing and automatic captions

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

5th Dec 2022
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make pop. Throw in a shitload to create a motherfucking verbal curry, layers of delicious goddamn meaning to unpack. Swearing is also present in every culture I can think of, with culture...
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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show...
22nd Jun 2026
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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show

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

22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different...
1st Dec 2025
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects

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

1st Dec 2025
Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different organizational systems. Sometimes I have to change them due to actual life circumstances changing; other times, due to the old one just wearing off[1]. Well, my life circumstances...
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who...
24th Nov 2025
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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing

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

24th Nov 2025
I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executives and my head is...
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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 bt RSS Feed [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...
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher

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

4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
12th Jun 2024
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nsnotifyd-2.1 released

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

12th Jun 2024
I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and runs a script when one of your zones changes. This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes: more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line avoid...
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Choose Boring Technology Culture Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
1st May 2023
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Choose Boring Technology Culture

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

1st May 2023
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
3rd Feb 2023
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief

from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2023
In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own: I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I’ll do it again on...
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025 We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI...
10th Jun 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025

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

10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
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自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
25th Nov 2013
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自営業している開発者の事例

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Nov 2013
![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaFVsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--0fd0bbea7ce4fe8a41672eaf8df9cc22c297bbb0/itnomikainagoya.jpg) [IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
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About Crows
2nd Dec 2009
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About Crows

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

2nd Dec 2009
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how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
13th Mar 2022
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how to use web workers with typescript

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

13th Mar 2022
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing) Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day...
4th Feb 2022
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)

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

4th Feb 2022
Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to...
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What's next for SemVer
11th Feb 2019
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What's next for SemVer

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

11th Feb 2019
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Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built...
27th May 2024
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Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th May 2024
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built for my kids and hopefully yours, I recently added a nice little feature where you can fill in any area with a linear gradient. It’s highly responsive to the user moving their...
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
14th Oct 2023
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage

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

14th Oct 2023
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
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How to solve it (with raycasting) In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math...
1st May 2024
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How to solve it (with raycasting)

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

1st May 2024
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
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My favourite websites from my bookmark collection Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks. how I use a static...
2nd Jun 2025
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My favourite websites from my bookmark collection

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2025
Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks. how I use a static site to store them, how I built a personal web archive by hand, and what I learnt about web development along the way. I wanted to end this series on a lighter note, so here’s a...
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
23rd Oct 2016
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects

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

23rd Oct 2016
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
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Human service is luxury Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality...
3rd Mar 2025
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Human service is luxury

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

3rd Mar 2025
Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality right now. I can't tell you how often I've been stuck in some god-forsaken AI loop or phone tree WHEN ALL I WANT IS A HUMAN. So I end up either just yelling "operator",...
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How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting...
5th Dec 2013
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How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency

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

5th Dec 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn] just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker [http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
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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.
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My ZSH (and bash) prompt Junkfood theme in git directory In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you need...
18th Dec 2012
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My ZSH (and bash) prompt

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

18th Dec 2012
Junkfood theme in git directory In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you need to have spent a truly astounding amount of time fiddling with your dotfiles. Me? I’ve gone way beyond the point of diminishing returns. Past the point where anyone who loves me...
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
24th May 2023
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Chickadee 0.10.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th May 2023
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.10.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. This release is on the smaller side...
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Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
28th Apr 2024
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Merging Responsibly

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

28th Apr 2024
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
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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,...
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Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary...
4th Aug 2026
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Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt

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

4th Aug 2026
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill. For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then paving over it. It enjoyed popularity as a...
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course,...
4th Oct 2021
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Four-Course Python Data Structures and Algorithms Track Released

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

4th Oct 2021
We recently took a look at our course curriculum and felt that our current Learn Algorithms course, written in Go, would be better served if it covered Python instead. After much deliberation, we decided to rewrite the course, and we’re super excited to have now released the...
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Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
27th Mar 2025
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Angkor Wat resources

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

27th Mar 2025
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
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Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
5th Jun 2022
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Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg

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

5th Jun 2022
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
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What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
14th May 2021
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What if Stripe is the next Google?

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

14th May 2021
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the...
7th Dec 2025
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

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

7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
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What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
5th Nov 2024
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What you know that just ain't so

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

5th Nov 2024
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2023

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

3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.
1st Feb 2021
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win

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

1st Feb 2021
Understanding new social media is a sociological exercise, not a logical one.
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Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
3rd Feb 2023
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Culture vs systems.

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

3rd Feb 2023
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc....
2nd Oct 2026
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Two-Stack Sliding-Window Aggregation

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

2nd Oct 2026
An aggregation is some kind of summary of a set of data. This can be the sum, length, minimum, etc. It is quite common to want to calculate such a summary repeatedly, e.g. “the maximum noise level in dB for the past 30 seconds” for a nuisance detector. In such a case we say there...
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Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
14th Jun 2024
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Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary

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

14th Jun 2024
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by...
4th Jul 2024
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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2024
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map. It’s an...
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A Happy Day for Rust
5th Mar 2025
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A Happy Day for Rust

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

5th Mar 2025
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The Middle Way Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member...
2nd May 2026
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The Middle Way

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

2nd May 2026
Login to tech Twitter and you’ll see posts bragging about 40k LoC per day from an unnamed YC member 😛. There’s some hilarity to it, but the vibe shift is real. At Jenni, we’re shipping 3-5x faster than mid-2025. I perpetually have unread notifications in our #shipped channel....
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
6th Jun 2021
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

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

6th Jun 2021
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
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Buyers define marketplaces A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of...
7th Jun 2020
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Buyers define marketplaces

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

7th Jun 2020
A marketplace business connects buyers and sellers in exchange for a cut of the revenue. Some of today's biggest companies, such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb, are marketplaces. Yes, these companies cha...
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A deep dive into distributed database architectures Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
12th Mar 2024
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A deep dive into distributed database architectures

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2024
Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
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What I'm up to - April 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month,...
1st Apr 2023
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What I'm up to - April 2023

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

1st Apr 2023
✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month, where I worked remotely and found some amazing coffee. For Postcard - I rebuilt the post-writing ...
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025 The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It...
25th Dec 2025
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025

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

25th Dec 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It was on the fritz, and when the repair person came and replaced it, Sam asked for the old module and brought it to me as a name that ware entry. Here’s the other circuit board that...
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LLMs and performative productivity It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we...
5th Jun 2026
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LLMs and performative productivity

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

5th Jun 2026
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
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Back from maternity leave Today is my last day of maternity leave. Chloe is down for her morning nap and I'm trying to process...
31st May 2026
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Back from maternity leave

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

31st May 2026
Today is my last day of maternity leave. Chloe is down for her morning nap and I'm trying to process the last 5 months and where it has all gone and all these complicated feelings. I want to go back to work and I don't. I am only going back part-time for a few months but it still...
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
16th Jul 2021
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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

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

16th Jul 2021
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
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Leaving Intel InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last...
4th Dec 2025
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Leaving Intel

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

4th Dec 2025
InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last day I've resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much...
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How Cooking Works In 2006, I did my first start-up howcookingworks.com where the idea was a site to learn how to cook....
12th Apr 2026
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How Cooking Works

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

12th Apr 2026
In 2006, I did my first start-up howcookingworks.com where the idea was a site to learn how to cook.   The first part of the site described the techniques of cooking, and the other was where cooks could connect to participants to learn from them. At the time, I went to a lot of...
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Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
13th Jul 2016
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Non-Empty Recursion in Elm

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

13th Jul 2016
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

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

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
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Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
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Recently

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

1st Jun 2023
Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
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Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
11th Nov 2016
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Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

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

11th Nov 2016
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Full Circle I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
28th Aug 2024
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Full Circle

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

28th Aug 2024
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my hometown is brutal, around 40 degrees Celsius (over 100 Fahrenheit for my imperial friends). Most people escape to the coast, just like my family did when I was a kid. I haven’t been here...
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022

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

11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
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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...
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A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
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A clever way to style the <mark> element

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

1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
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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...
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