Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building an Infinite Spreadsheet
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think...
a year ago
As of late, I’ve been working on Quadratic: an infinite canvas spreadsheet that runs code. Think Figma (infinite canvas) meets Excel (spreadsheet) meets VSCode (IDE). In addition to formulas (e.g. SUM(A1:A5)) every cell in Quadratic can be the result of code (right now it’s...
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis.
A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk,
Solving the Engineering Strategy...
a year ago
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...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2:
“Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day.
First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
ntietz.com blog
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009.
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way.
Most...
11 months ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way.
Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
ntietz.com blog
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
over a year ago
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent.
I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
bt RSS Feed
Browser History Sucks
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to...
over a year ago
Browser History Sucks
2019-04-20
Have you ever needed to step back through your browser history to find a particular site or product? Do you remember that experience being good? Most likely not.
Much like printers, the design of browser history interfaces hasn’t changed in years....
Making software...
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-13
I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's...
over a year ago
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-13
I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it's a half-way decent copy...
Ognjen Regoje •...
User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: *
Edit: It’s happening!
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt.
User-Agent:...
a year ago
Edit: It’s happening!
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt.
User-Agent: ChatGPT
Disallow: *
User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: * was originally published by Ognjen Regoje at Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io on March 26, 2023.
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
9 months ago
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
bt RSS Feed
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a...
over a year ago
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
over a year ago
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption?
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
over a year ago
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone.
Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function.
Three options are:
Alternative Text
Long...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
over a year ago
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers:
Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption
Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
David Heinemeier...
The reality of the Danish fairytale
Denmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the...
11 months ago
Denmark has long ranked high on the list of societies that American liberals dream about turning the United States into. And for many good reasons. Education is state-funded, and students are even paid a stipend to go to university. Health care is equally free of individual...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why infrastructure is a competitive advantage for us
We're hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). I'm biased of course, but I think it's worth...
over a year ago
We're hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). I'm biased of course, but I think it's worth explaining why we think PostHog is the most exciting…
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How useRef turned out to be useMemo's father
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from...
over a year ago
It's no secret that react's useCallback is just sugar on top of useMemo that saves the children from having to see an arrow chain. As the docs go:
useCallback((e) => onChange(id, e.target.value), [onChange, id]);
// is equivalent to
useMemo(() => (e) => onChange(id,...
James Vaughan's blog
Introducing: json-space-analyzer
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Prisma Typed SQL Queries (tip)
3 months ago
the singularity is...
Wireheading City
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line...
a year ago
I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line:
There’s a fine line that defines civilization.
Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
11 months ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
ntietz.com blog
That time I wrote malware and got caught
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school.
While other people were drinking, going to...
a year ago
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school.
While other people were drinking, going to parties, and who knows what else, I was doing some experimentation of my own.
I was writing my first (and only) piece of malware.
From as early as I can remember, I've had a fascination...
TokyoDev
Grad school in Japan: my experience doing a Master of Sciences in Computer Science
My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which...
9 months ago
My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which allowed me to take a Japanese language course and intern at a major Japanese company. I wrote all about it in [my previous TokyoDev...
Jake Zimmerman
Inheritance in Ruby, in pictures
12 months ago
TokyoDev
Living with a disability in Japan
This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last...
a year ago
This article is informed primarily by my experiences as a deaf American living in Japan for the last 16 years. Even though I do not have a mobility disability, I have also included notes about mobility accessibility because I also have some awareness of those through relatives. I...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Tests or Types: Why Not Both?
_Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not...
over a year ago
_Published on CSS Tricks as [Types or Tests: Why Not Both?](https://css-tricks.com/types-or-tests-why-not-both/)_
A Smart Bear
Failure to face the truth
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across...
over a year ago
This concept recurs in different forms throughout myriad books, frameworks, and topics, across decades of time. When something is so consistent, it must be wisdom.
Kevin Chen
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed
checkout clerk, you...
over a year ago
Imagine that you’re hired to work at your local public library. As an eagle-eyed
checkout clerk, you soon realize that half the patrons leave without actually
checking out their books! This leaves everyone else scratching their heads when
the catalog doesn’t match the shelves....
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
over a year ago
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development:
🔥 the close button. 🔥
In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
a year ago
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks
Question:
Answer:
The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
5 months ago
Question:
Answer:
The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Perils of Hydration
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug....
over a year ago
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML
tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>
The other day I was trying to write...
a year ago
tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>
The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link (same functionality as if they hit CMD + R on their keyboard, or clicked...
Alice GG
5 kubectl plugins to make your life easier
I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance...
a year ago
I have been using Kubernetes for five years, but only very recently started using plugins to enhance my kubectl commands.
I will show you five plugins that help me avoid repetitive tasks, make cluster administration simpler, and incident response less stressful.
All the plugins...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Your Site's Calling Card
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
over a year ago
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
The Pragmatic...
Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no...
a year ago
Twitter throttled access to its platform while Meta launched Threads, a rival to Twitter with no signup or other throttling in place. Two approaches: but there will likely be only one winner.
Nelson's Weblog
Austria 2022
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although...
over a year ago
Ken and I just got back from a 23 day trip exploring most of Austria. We
had a lovely time although we did get a little worn out and ready for home
after a couple of weeks. Along the way we stayed in Vienna, Graz, the
Wörthersee, Zell am See, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hallstatt,...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3 months ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While
preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted:
San Francisco Chronicle voter guide
SPUR endorsements
GrowSF voter guide, which links to questionnaires from many local candidates that are far more detailed than their...
HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun...
3 weeks ago
by Rian Rietveld
It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.
Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text.
The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes:
a logo, that tells you which site you are...
Irrational...
2024 in review.
A lot happened for me this year.
I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta,
which...
a week ago
A lot happened for me this year.
I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta,
which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in.
My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it.
We started the unironically daunting San...
The Changelog
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a...
over a year ago
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery:
Two-factor authentication and account recovery
Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
The Codist
A Programming Career By The Numbers
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be...
11 months ago
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary.
Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...
Patrick Kayongo
A World Offline
Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted...
a year ago
Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted businesses and resulted in unanticipated cost increases from those who have had to find alternative sources of electricity. 16 years ago, it was unimaginable that we would have some days...
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
over a year ago
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify().
Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
Remains of the Day
Veblen values
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
over a year ago
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
Engineer’s Codex
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were...
a year ago
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
a year ago
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
ntietz.com blog
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of...
9 months ago
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped1 by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA.
This is cool, how does it work?
I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it.
Well, friends, that is what I did.
I implemented RSA...
Acko.net
The Bouquet Residence
Keeping up appearances in tech
I saw a remarkable pair of tweets the other day.
In the wake of...
5 months ago
Keeping up appearances in tech
I saw a remarkable pair of tweets the other day.
In the wake of the outage, the CEO of CrowdStrike sent out a public announcement. It's purely factual. The scope of the problem is identified, the known facts are stated, and the logistics of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Daylight confusion week
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again:...
a year ago
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week.
Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today.
But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for
us remoties, that means next week’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack
I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”,...
a year ago
I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”, and a subtle point stuck out to me at the ending of his talk.
When you run into performance problems, it's [because you tried] to reorder these things or combine them in weird...
Epic Web Dev
Support Responsive Favicons for a Professional Look (tip)
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
a year ago
Create a responsive favicon that adapts to the user's system preference for light or dark mode.
HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
2 days ago
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.4.0
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
over a year ago
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
Steve Klabnik
Book review: New Programmer's Survival Manual
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Coronavirus Recession and What it Means for Developers
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look...
over a year ago
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
HTMHell
Swallowing camels
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses…
Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
PostHog's RSS Feed
An introduction to product analytics and how it works
What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of...
over a year ago
What is product analytics? At the most basic level product analytics refers to the process of gathering data about how a product is used, then…
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
over a year ago
5 Things I Learned about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book
HTMHell
aria-labelledby = self
by Weston Thayer
An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a...
2 weeks ago
by Weston Thayer
An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a good accessible name is important. If not, negative effects may include screen reader users missing out on vital information, voice control users struggling to interact, and any...
blag
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
over a year ago
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Oxide Computer...
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
a month ago
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
HTMHell
The UX of HTML
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
a year ago
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How I Approach First Principles Thinking
An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
over a year ago
An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on Applications
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator
One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack...
a year ago
One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems.
David Heinemeier...
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript
By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle...
a year ago
By all accounts, TypeScript has been a big success for Microsoft. I've seen loads of people sparkle with joy from dousing JavaScript with explicit types that can be checked by a compiler. But I've never been a fan. Not after giving it five minutes, not after giving it five years....
bt RSS Feed
Vertical Tabs in Safari
Vertical Tabs in Safari
2024-09-26
I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build)...
2 months ago
Vertical Tabs in Safari
2024-09-26
I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build) which has vertical tabs built-in. There are instances where I need to use Safari, such as debugging or testing iOS devices, and in those instances I prefer to have a similar...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2022
The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry...
a year ago
The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry was a bit tough, but I think maybe I hit a balance between leaving enough clues, and giving it away. We’ll see shortly! I have a lot more to say about this ware: I will give proper...
swyx's site RSS Feed
250k downloads of Latent Space Pod
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Julia Evans
2023: Year in review
Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few
of the things I worked...
11 months ago
Hello! This was my 4th year working full time on Wizard Zines! Here are a few
of the things I worked on this year.
a zine!
I published How Integers and Floats Work, which I worked on with
Marie.
This one started out its life as “how your computer represents things in
memory”, but...
the singularity is...
The World’s Computer
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
10 months ago
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer.
In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark...
over a year ago
Dark Mode has become common enough that it's a user expectation. And yet, creating the perfect dark mode with a statically-built site/app is deceptively tricky. In this in-depth tutorial, we'll see how to build the perfect, flicker-free, customizable theming solution for...
Kevin Chen
Speeding up code with vectorization
I’ve been writing a lot of math code with latency requirements these days. When
I talk to people...
over a year ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Idioms as Code
This is silly.
I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the...
11 months ago
This is silly.
I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the idiom.
Answers are below the code (and, for clients viewing in supported readers, appear upside down like a children’s book).
pen > sword
>>> true
The pen is mightier than the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Remote companies can be too asynchronous
Even when Tim (my cofounder) and I were doing a Y Combinator (YC) batch in 2020, we realized we...
over a year ago
Even when Tim (my cofounder) and I were doing a Y Combinator (YC) batch in 2020, we realized we got more work done when we worked asynchronously…
Steve Klabnik
Returning to Free Software, a guide
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”:
The idea that businesses are already waging...
a year ago
Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”:
The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
9 months ago
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
A Smart Bear
Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and...
a year ago
Everyone wants change, but doesn't want to change. Though inevitable, change is uncomfortable and exhausting. Manage it with kindness.
Coding Horror
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember "cybersecurity"?
Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .....
over a year ago
Remember "cybersecurity"?
Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?
Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the...
Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
a year ago
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML
I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML?
I can’t find any...
11 months ago
I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML?
I can’t find any discussion around it — but I’d love to read more about the idea because it intrigues me.
The OG RSS was an XML feed.
Later we got JSON feeds.
So why not an HTML feed standard? (I know,...
macwright.com
Recently 2024
Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be...
a week ago
Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule!
Running
This was my biggest year for running on...
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience):
I started writing more blog...
4 months ago
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience):
I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X. You get a spike of views when you share something on X, but that dies off quickly. If you provide great value with your...
Epic Web Dev
Contribute an Epic Stack Example (tip)
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
a year ago
How to create an Epic Stack example to help others and get new features built into the Epic Stack.
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
over a year ago
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New...
over a year ago
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Irrational...
Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an...
a year ago
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an interesting read on how integrating technology across business units shifts the company’sstrategy landscape. Written in 2006, case studies are not particularly current but the ideas...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.27.0
PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to understand why your users aren't converting. Plus 400+ improvements & fixes.
The Pragmatic...
Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software
Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years...
a year ago
Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years leading up to this sale.
Making software...
Improving Receipt UX
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
over a year ago
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further.
What was the...
A Beautiful Site
The SimpleImage library for PHP
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm...
over a year ago
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods.
The class is incredibly simple to use. The following two lines will...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system
5 months ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification.
Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then?
One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
A Smart Bear
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
a year ago
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
Joel Gascoigne
The evolution of culture at a startup
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over a year ago
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It’s now 2 years since I launched Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and the company
has grown from just myself (working from my bedroom) to a team of 7. In the last
few months, I’ve been thinking a...
HTMHell
HTML and CSS I didn't even know about before I started creating content in Japanese
by Julia Undeutsch
Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about...
a week ago
by Julia Undeutsch
Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about traditional setups, like having Japanese text flow from top to bottom, right to left, like you’d see in newspapers or novels. That's when I discovered CSS properties like writing-mode:...
Joel Gascoigne
What are you doing to feel uncomfortable?
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over a year ago
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I believe that when you’re building a startup, it is as much about developing
yourself as it is about developing your startup. This week I’ve stepped up my
gym routine and managed to go to the gym...
Joel Gascoigne
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup
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over a year ago
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It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’
[https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup
[http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
ntietz.com blog -...
Terminology isn't universal
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I...
3 weeks ago
A little while back, I wrote that we shouldn't say "auth" but should use other terms instead.
I stand by my argument in general, but it also has another side to it: my suggested terminology makes sense in some domains, but not in all domains.
And that's because terminology...
Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing
If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
a year ago
If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
David Heinemeier...
Picking a purpose
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War...
12 months ago
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War II. He observed the outer extreme of what happens to people who no longer have a WHY to live for. They’d wither and die in the camp. Even the most dire rations and punishing labor...
Tinloof - Blog
Text with media background: practical solutions
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard...
a year ago
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard to read and cause accessibility and usability issues. Designers might not catch these problems early on because they use ideal settings to test designs.
The real problems show up...
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
3 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI.
He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder.
I’ve written a couple of similar...
37signals Dev
Speeding up mobile development with Turbo
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product
Expectations for a product are higher now than ever....
10 months ago
Maintaining parity in a multi-platform product
Expectations for a product are higher now than ever. Users expect to use their software to be available everywhere: on the web, on desktops, on their mobile devices. Development for all these platforms is fractured so most companies...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do what's right
Doing what’s right is so interesting.
It’s so difficult
It’s difficult to be completely honest with...
11 months ago
Doing what’s right is so interesting.
It’s so difficult
It’s difficult to be completely honest with yourself when you know what’s right but you don’t want to do it.
It’s often physically more difficult: you’ll have to spend more effort, more time, more money.
But it’s so...
A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
a year ago
Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: quantum computer emulator in SQL
Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer...
over a year ago
Last year, my good friend and colleague Matt Ward challenged me to implement a quantum computer emulator in SQL. Challenge accepted! This year we will be building an SQL query which will emulate a quantum computer. This query will process quantum assembly, build the circuit, run...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on
computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s
Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric
design to...
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
a month ago
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
Jake Zimmerman
Why don’t constructors have override checking?
11 months ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
over a year ago
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
Stephen Wolfram...
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
a year ago
This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of...
Joel Gascoigne
What online gaming taught me about startups
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over a year ago
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[https://joel.is/post/22436341176/achieving-overnight-success-kevin-systrom] piece
I published two weeks ago, I was excited to...
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
over a year ago
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!)
Today, I'm...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.41.0: Improving performance by up to 400%
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
over a year ago
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.41.0 update guide for self-hosted…
Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful
business as a solo founder....
over a year ago
People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful
business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you
get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important
advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
over a year ago
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
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...
A Beautiful Site
Testing Support for :focus-visible
The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in...
over a year ago
The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets:
/* Please don't do this */
button:focus {
outline: none;
}
While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when…
What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
a year ago
What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why you may not need a sales team
You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
over a year ago
You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
Charles Chen
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way
How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
a year ago
How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build your SaaS with freelancers?
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools...
over a year ago
In today’s world, it’s easier than ever to build a Software-as-a-Service startup. With online tools and resources like no-code platforms, […]
The post How to build your SaaS with freelancers? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Write HTML Like It's 1999
Write HTML Like It’s 1999
2019-06-06
I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the...
over a year ago
Write HTML Like It’s 1999
2019-06-06
I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer’s life easier....
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
Making software...
Introducing Notez
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
4 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, July 2024
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last...
4 months ago
The Ware for July 2024 is shown below. Thanks again to jackw01 for contributing this ware! The last two images might be killer clues that give away the ware, but they are also so cool I couldn’t not include them as part of the post.
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email,...
over a year ago
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience.
Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We're building a better PostHog community by closing our public Slack
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the...
11 months ago
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
Hixie's Natural Log
Assertions
We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework.
There's several reasons for...
a year ago
We're pretty aggressive about assertions in the Flutter framework.
There's several reasons for this.
The original reason was that when I wrote a bunch of this code, I had nowhere for it to run. I literally wrote the first few thousand(?) lines of framework code before we...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 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.
Notable improvements and...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
a year ago
The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Imports Under The Hood
In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted:
in order to successfully work with JavaScript or...
a year ago
In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted:
in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between the code that you’re writing and the...
David Heinemeier...
Google Cloud cuts egress and promotes cloud exits
The absurd egress fees charged by major hyperscalers have been one of the biggest impediments for...
11 months ago
The absurd egress fees charged by major hyperscalers have been one of the biggest impediments for companies to leave the cloud. We’ve been preparing for our own departure from AWS S3 at 37signals, and the price for taking our data elsewhere is in the crazy-land region of...
macwright.com
Running motivation hacks
Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you:
Try to run all...
9 months ago
Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you:
Try to run all the streets in my neighborhood. I use CityStrides, there are many similar apps.
Run the same exact route, every time, at any speed: focus on consistency-only. Repetition...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave
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over a year ago
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throughout my journey with Buffer. I started in the UK, and since then I’ve
lived in Hong...
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How to change custom domain on Substack
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
a year ago
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
ntietz.com blog
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions.
Right now, it...
a year ago
I'm working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions.
Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games.
One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs.
I'd also like it to...
Oxide Computer...
Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and...
a month ago
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Work Together to Advance Cloud and HPC Convergence
Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore...
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How to speed up ClickHouse queries using materialized columns
ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly...
over a year ago
ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly from existing data. In this post, I’ll walk…
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts
dir: Virgil, the...
over a year ago
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts
dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font.
That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total
incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve
but the Internet...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Integers and Floats Work
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work!
You can get it for $12...
a year ago
Hello! On Wednesday, we released a new zine: How Integers and Floats Work!
You can get it for $12 here:
https://wizardzines.com/zines/integers-floats, or get
an 13-pack of all my zines here.
Here’s the cover:
the table of contents
Here’s the table of contents!
Now let’s...
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014.
Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ideas for replit bounties
Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts.
As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts...
a year ago
Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts.
As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve Replit bounties.
Lower transaction costs
Currently the process is:
I post a bounty
one or more people apply
I select an applicant
they do the work
I...
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
10 months ago
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
macwright.com
The module pattern really isn't needed anymore by
I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available...
12 months ago
I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available in JavaScript. I was kind of skeptical of class syntax when it came out, but now there really isn’t any reason to use any other kind of “class” style than the ES6 syntax. The...
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The 9 best mobile app A/B testing tools
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it...
a year ago
A/B tests are a great way to confirm that your product changes have the intended effects. When it comes to mobile apps, there are many different A/B…
ntietz.com blog
What's in my software engineering tool belt?
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I...
a year ago
One of my favorite things is reading about the tools other people use, and talking about the tools I use.
When I read a post recently about a data journalist's data tool belt, well...
I knew I'd have to share my own software engineering tool belt, too.
So, here's my software...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
a month ago
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
Maggie Appleton
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
a year ago
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
charity.wtf
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery
I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
a year ago
I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
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Bouldering
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
a year ago
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
alexwlchan
How I name my computers
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac.
I’ve already done most of the...
a month ago
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac.
I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it.
I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine.
There’s one hard part of...
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The most popular PostHog alternatives, compared
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need...
a year ago
As an all-in-one platform, PostHog replaces a lot of legacy tools. PostHog is great if you: Need quantitative and qualitative insights into user…
Don Melton
That bleeping kerfuffle
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
over a year ago
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio.
I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
Joel Gascoigne
3 reasons you shouldn't outsource your startup, and what to do instead
One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier...
over a year ago
One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier stage
[https://joel.is/why-im-helping-startup-founders/] of the startup journey. I had a
lot of false starts before Buffer. I enjoy sharing my lessons from those failed
attempts, and I also enjoy getting my...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
David Heinemeier...
Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way
Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
a month ago
Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Irrational...
Lessons not worth learning.
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team...
over a year ago
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
2 days ago
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱.
Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media.
If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
ntietz.com blog
Approximating pi using... a cake?
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
a year ago
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon.
The celebrations have evolved.
It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie".
Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
Maggie Appleton
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis
9 months ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
An algorithm for shuffling playlists
a year ago
HTMHell
#27 <a6>
Context: Visually a list of links.
Bad code
<h6>Popular Cities</h6>
<div>
<h6...
over a year ago
Context: Visually a list of links.
Bad code
<h6>Popular Cities</h6>
<div>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6>
<h6...
David Heinemeier...
The origin of Ruby on Rails
I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was...
a year ago
I can't thank Honeypot and Carolina Cabral enough for the producing The Rails Documentary that was just released today. Looking back on those early, formative years of Ruby on Rails with Tobi, Jamis, Jeremy, and Jason was actually kind of profound. I usually don't spend much time...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
over a year ago
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
over a year ago
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
a year ago
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years.
Time flies when you’re organising information!
I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come.
Its approach...
Irrational...
My advice for how to use LLMs in your product.
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if...
8 months ago
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the blank page nervously trying to come up with an idea. It’s straightforward to...
Tony Finch's blog
Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch build howto
main img {
border: 1px solid var(--fg);
width: 100%;
}
The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a...
a year ago
main img {
border: 1px solid var(--fg);
width: 100%;
}
The Novelkeys Kailh Big Switch is a working MX-style
mechanical keyboard switch, but 4x larger in every dimension.
I realised at the weekend that the Big Switch should fit nicely in a
simple Lego enclosure. Because an...
ntietz.com blog
Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot
I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March.
It's been an interesting...
a year ago
I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March.
It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change.
Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with...
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How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives.
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
a year ago
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
blag
PSA: SQLite does not do checksums
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
a month ago
SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco
Chronicle and SPUR endorsements.
Contents
California
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Controller
Treasurer
Insurance Commissioner
United...
Confessions of a...
Video: Architecture of Groq's LPU & Why is it so Fast?
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me...
9 months ago
This last Sunday we did a live session on Groq’s LPU and after that many people reached out to me for the recording of the session.
Making software...
CSS Slope Graphs
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
over a year ago
CSS Slope Graphs
2021-06-07
I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we?
The Demo
I'm basing...
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Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series...
over a year ago
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series [here](https://livecycle.io/blogs/devx-project-swyx/). Reproducing for posterity.
Patrick Kayongo
The News
So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that...
a year ago
So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that new dress in the Spring Collection at H&M. Just a tray of meat, garlic rolls and juice. Snap. It’s payday weekend and there are such long lines at this Checkers. I’m already late...
Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted.
Craigslist Search Alerts
I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes
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over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
4 months ago
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language.
It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript.
This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Vadim Kravcenko
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A...
a year ago
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group suffered a severe trading loss due to a software error. A technician’s failure […]
The post Dealing with Failures and Postmortems appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel Gascoigne
5 realisations that helped me write regularly
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I was recently...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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I was recently talking with Eytan Levit [http://twitter.com/eytanlevit], a
really interesting founder who’s had a lot of amazing experiences. We were
chatting about some of his current challenges,...
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
A small freedom area...
Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact....
over a year ago
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact. Preserving the precision as best as possible was way more
challenging than I initially though, which forced me to go deep down the rabbit
hole. During the process I realized I had...
The Changelog
Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the...
over a year ago
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the censorship was algorithmic or human, it was intentional either way. Details in my new post. Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and...
A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
over a year ago
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper.
Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use.
I don't know. I guess...
Computer Things
Know (of) the right tool for the job
Last week's Picat essay did pretty well online! One of the common responses was "This looks really...
9 months ago
Last week's Picat essay did pretty well online! One of the common responses was "This looks really interesting but I don't know where I'd use it."
For Picat there was a gap of five years between me hearing about it and actually learning it. The same is true for most of the weird...
David Heinemeier...
We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar...
11 months ago
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar app. It seems they love to play these little games to try to drown any controversy with the cover of a weekend. But we don’t roll over that easy, so the team worked through the...
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Netlify Year One - 360 Review
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
over a year ago
I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL
Guess what I received in the mail today?
You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
11 months ago
Guess what I received in the mail today?
You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book.
(If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.)
This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Liz Denys
Reasons to kick Peter Thiel off Facebook's board
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about...
over a year ago
There's a push to remove Peter Thiel from Facebook's board, and Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the threat he poses. Many of the arguments are centered around diversity, which is a tenet Facebook says it deeply values.
The ways Thiel fails to value diversity matter: his...
Liz Denys
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
over a year ago
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python
We are due for our next live session.
a month ago
We are due for our next live session.
Vadim Kravcenko
Habits of great software engineers
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
a year ago
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […]
The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
4 months ago
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
a year ago
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
macwright.com
Don't use marked
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
10 months ago
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
Liz Denys
Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site,...
over a year ago
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site, or form says "introduce yourself, no pressure," I shrink back. How do I convince myself that other people find who I am or what I do interesting?
I found myself asking this question...
HTMHell
Dear developer, your assumptions are wrong
As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught.
So, for example,...
over a year ago
As developers, validation of user input is one of the first things we are taught.
So, for example, we may think it would be a good idea to put some restrictions in an input field for a name:
<label for="name">First name:</label>
<input type="text" minlength="3" maxlength="20"...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Interview on Daily Dev Tips
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
over a year ago
I was interviewed by Chris Bongers on Daily Dev Tips, here are some extracts.
Irrational...
Notes on How Big Things Get Done
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some...
a year ago
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some megaprojects fail so resoundingly and why others succeed under budget and under schedule. It’s an exploration of planning methods, the role of expertise, the value of benchmarking similar...
Maggie Appleton
Frequently Asked Questions
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js
A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
HTMHell
Getting Oriented with HTML Video
by Scott Jehl
A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York....
3 days ago
by Scott Jehl
A couple years back, I was in a window seat on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. The weather was gray and drizzly as the plane took off, but as it punched through the clouds a very different scene revealed itself. Out my window, it looked like a Maxfield Parrish...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mocking and Using CRUD APIs with MirageJS and React-Query
This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great...
over a year ago
This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great developer experience.
Steve Klabnik
80% of success is showing up
over a year ago
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget`
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on...
2 weeks ago
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta2 release
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing
A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing...
2 months ago
A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing more transparent. A deepdive on how exactly they did it.
alexwlchan
Preserving pixels in Paris
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the...
7 months ago
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the preservation of websites and social media.
It was my first time attending, and I was there with both a professional and a personal interest.
This post has some thoughts and photos...
Making software...
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
over a year ago
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
samwho.dev
Load Balancing
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items:...
a year ago
.simulation {
width: 100%;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
margin-bottom: 2.5em;
}
.load-balancer {
color: black;
font-weight: bold;
}
.request {
color: #04BF8A;
font-weight: bold;
}
.server {
color:...
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.
For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
a year ago
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.
For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive.
And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center.
What changed?
I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
8 months ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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The last two...
over a year ago
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The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the
UK has taken us across the world
[https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
a month ago
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
Vadim Kravcenko
How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit?
First of all, I’m sorry you ended up in such a situation. Running in overdrive for so long is a...
a year ago
First of all, I’m sorry you ended up in such a situation. Running in overdrive for so long is a […]
The post How do I tell my cofounder I need to quit? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers
9 months ago
Words and Buttons...
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)
All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
9 months ago
All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping
How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
over a year ago
How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
macwright.com
Recently
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu.
Bought the album as soon...
a year ago
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu.
Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if
Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a
remarkable live show.
Distant Intervals by MIZU
Reading
I...
Maggie Appleton
Douglas, Dirt, and Matter Out of Place
over a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering?
Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I...
10 months ago
Dear Friend, Your openness in sharing your experiences and concerns resonates deeply with me. I understand how you feel. I […]
The post Do some people just not have the talent for Software Engineering? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Vadim Kravcenko
Networking as an introvert CTO
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like...
a year ago
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish […]
The post Networking as an introvert CTO appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
a year ago
The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
A Beautiful Site
Using an ORM
I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that...
over a year ago
I've never really bothered with ORMs before, as feelings for them tend to be mixed. I've heard that you can spend twice as long learning an ORM as you can coding raw SQL. 🤷🏻♂️
I figured it was time to see for myself. For the Postleaf rebuild, I decided to try out Sequelize. I...
Making software...
Introducing PageRoast
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
over a year ago
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask?
Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
a year ago
I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping detailed records.
I don’t set reading goals, but I’m pleased with that.
Nearly a third of those books came from my local library; both books I knew I already wanted to read, and books...
TokyoDev
Marketing yourself as a developer
As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to...
over a year ago
As a developer, I've learned that no matter how good a product I build is, for the product to succeed, it also takes good marketing. The same is true for you as a developer in the job market: while solid technical skills are necessary to land great jobs, your ability to sell...
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
over a year ago
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product:
Materials and Components
I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
bt RSS Feed
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it.
This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
HTMHell
#23 A card pattern
Bad code
<article>
<div>
<div class="sr-only">Image</div>
<img src="/feature-teaser.png"...
over a year ago
Bad code
<article>
<div>
<div class="sr-only">Image</div>
<img src="/feature-teaser.png" alt="Feature teaser" />
</div>
</article>
<div>
<span>
<span>Exciting feature!</span>
</span>
<div> This text describes what the feature does! </div>
<a...
Maggie Appleton
A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
over a year ago
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
Miguel Carranza
Full Circle
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
3 months ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deno De-emphasizes HTTP Imports
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure...
4 months ago
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure how I feel about their latest admission which makes their dependency story more like npm and less like the web.
Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. It...
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a...
over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of
us being born in a garage and
Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer
company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers:
Robert Mustacchi on
joining Oxide,
Joshua Clulow on the need...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we've learned about talking to users
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products by learning…
macwright.com
My favorite books of 2022
This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The
ratio of fiction...
a year ago
This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The
ratio of fiction to non-fiction was skewed toward non-fiction. I think overall
I read fewer amazing books than last year, when I finished 20, but also fewer
duds - though there certainly were some...
Maggie Appleton
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces
Around the beginning of 2022, my girlfriend and I were taking a hike overlooking Camps Bay. And...
a year ago
Around the beginning of 2022, my girlfriend and I were taking a hike overlooking Camps Bay. And while the vistas were gorgeous, I was waving my arms about and describing the future of virtual reality. Having worked as a game developer in the VR space for several years (back...
Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality
Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from
people that they find...
a year ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from
people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got
me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it
different from how git actually works?
So in...
Steve Klabnik
Show solidarity to all who resist
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team.
We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.8
Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be...
over a year ago
Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be doing weekly tagged releases from now on so the…
The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
7 months ago
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
6 months ago
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
3 months ago
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior.
Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind.
For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
over a year ago
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies →
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
a year ago
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch.
I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading.
Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
David Gerrells
how to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill
Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my...
4 months ago
Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my own.
Joel on Software
HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free,...
over a year ago
Sometimes simulating complex systems is the best way to understand them. Read more "HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world"
swyx's site RSS Feed
Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium
Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
over a year ago
Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
swyx's site RSS Feed
add Whisper to your iOS Action Button
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
11 months ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
Max Countryman
Let It Fail
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
a year ago
I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection
With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the...
over a year ago
With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the concepts whose names remind us of object-orientation. We throw constructors, methods and classes out of the window because they seem to smell of bank cubicles, water coolers and...
Vadim Kravcenko
Exit. Selling your SaaS
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Exit. Selling your SaaS appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never
really understood...
3 weeks ago
Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never
really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command
to watch for some specific output in a log file:
tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2
If log lines are...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale.
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
a year ago
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
9 months ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices
It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
over a year ago
It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
Seldo.com
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
over a year ago
Irrational...
Internal comms for executives.
Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger
between the executive’s...
a year ago
Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger
between the executive’s preferred communication style and the norms that organization has already established.
I remember a recently joined executive complaining that engineers weren’t reading his emails.
He...
somenice
Wooden Macropad
What is it? It’s an open source electronics kit, the Adafruit Macropad, embedded in a solid block of...
over a year ago
What is it? It’s an open source electronics kit, the Adafruit Macropad, embedded in a solid block of quarter-sawn tigerwood. What can it do? It’s a programable HID keyboard with OLED display and rotary encoder running CircuitPython. Which is a hardware specific, light-weight port...
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