Vladimir Klepov as a...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
12th Feb 2023
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
Hixie's Natural Log
When complaints are a good sign
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
27th Sep 2024
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices.
These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
1st Jan 2001
Jordan Eldredge's...
Piano Four-Hands Arrangement (Wedding Gift)
As a wedding gift for Chelsea I arranged a piano four-hands version of the song her dad wrote to...
19th Sep 2013
As a wedding gift for Chelsea I arranged a piano four-hands version of the song her dad wrote to sing her to sleep.
Eric Bailey
Focus Management and Inert
19th Oct 2020
Julia Evans
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years.
It’s about strategies...
8th May 2023
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years.
It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d
released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave
the talk 6 months ago.
Here’s the video, as...
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
8th Jul 2023
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
1st Feb 2019
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
Boot.dev Blog
Write on the Boot.dev Blog
We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the...
2nd Sep 2022
We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the great stories that our readers and students will create.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes)
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
1st Sep 2022
Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
A Smart Bear
The Startup Drake Equation
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
2nd Feb 2025
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
On Test Automation
Writing tests with Claude Code - part 1 - initial results
In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and...
9th Mar 2026
In a recent post, I wrote about how I used Claude Code to analyze the code for RestAssured.Net and then perform a refactoring action, using hand-written tests as the safety net. In that post, I wrote that I didn’t want Claude to touch the tests themselves, and why. I was still...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
What I Told the FCC
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring
Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the...
8th May 2017
I think that new FCC proposal for “Restoring
Internet Freedom” would completely destroy the internet. Should this
proposal go any further, the internet will no longer be recognizable
within a very short amount of time. I’m worried that I will no longer
have a place on the...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
25th Sep 2021
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Liz Denys
Pointillism rose
Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
3rd Feb 2013
Sharpie on computer paper, Photoshop to brighten the colors.
Identity Designed
Bright Barley
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian →
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed...
4th Nov 2022
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too.
To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin.
When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: The Easiest Way to Create an API Proxy (2023)
Read the post here.
27th Sep 2023
Miguel Carranza
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
2nd Aug 2020
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Brendan Gregg's Blog
eBPF Documentary
eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it...
9th Mar 2024
eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it accepted had so far been an untold story of strategy and ingenuity. The eBPF documentary, published late last year, tells this story by interviewing key players from 2014 including...
Remains of the Day
What I learned from a Taipei alley
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy...
15th May 2018
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
Maggie Appleton
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots
Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
10th Aug 2019
Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
David Crawshaw
2015-11-16
"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal...
16th Nov 2015
"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal methods of measurement for how 'good' a language is, so it mostly happens by default as popular systems thrive and unpopular ones wither and...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
Max Schmitt
Contentful: How to Find Unused Types
Read the post here.
17th Aug 2023
Buttondown's blog
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
ntietz.com blog -...
Covers as a way of learning music and code
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.
You have to be able...
21st Jul 2025
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn.
You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it.
You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions.
You may want to record your music, and need all...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we designed the PostHog mascot
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
Neil Panchal
Neofetch – Server Administration System
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the...
4th Oct 2022
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the system as soon as I log in and with zero friction. I am obliged to use the one and only tool: neofetch. Neofetch is a pillar of
Dan Quach Blog
Reflections at 44, Tofu, Ancient Robots, Fanny Crosby
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are...
24th Oct 2025
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are two repeating numbers. Other numbers that have come to mind are 22, 44, and 88. At 22, I had just graduated from college with a computer science degree during a mild recession,...
Eric Bailey
I love my slightly smart tiny TV
details {
font-size: var(--scale1);
margin-top: 0.25rem !important;
}
details summary...
13th May 2024
details {
font-size: var(--scale1);
margin-top: 0.25rem !important;
}
details summary {
line-height: 1.2;
}
details p {
line-height: 1.35;
margin-top: var(--scale0);
}
I swear this isn’t a sponsored post.
I impulse bought a TinyTV 2 recently. It...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Writing a custom Codeception module
How to write a custom Codeception module and distribute it as a Composer package.
19th Mar 2014
How to write a custom Codeception module and distribute it as a Composer package.
Elad Blog
Anduril & Defense Tech
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
17th Jun 2021
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
Brendan Gregg's Blog
Why I joined OpenAI
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no...
6th Feb 2026
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly, with an initial focus on ChatGPT...
Eliran Turgeman
Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2024
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
30th Oct 2024
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
19th Jul 2023
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies.
This...
ntietz.com blog -...
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference!
She's...
3rd Feb 2025
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference!
She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer.
How'd we wind up there?
The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages
TLA+ Workshop
TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
17th Jan 2024
TLA+ Workshop
TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy!
Unusual basis types in...
Marco Bambini
Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
ntietz.com blog -...
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence
Here's an exchange that's pretty common:
"How long will that take?"
"A few days."
I run into this...
7th Aug 2017
Here's an exchange that's pretty common:
"How long will that take?"
"A few days."
I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
macwright.com
Incentives
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
1st Mar 2024
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
Boot.dev Blog
Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗
I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was...
28th Feb 2024
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
elementary Blog
Who Monitors The Monitor?
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
27th Sep 2012
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 1–5
16th Dec 2024
charity.wtf
Know your “One Job” and do it first
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be...
7th Mar 2021
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options and developing a schema management tool, keep slipping. But she is one of HR’s...
Josh Comeau's blog
Styling Ordered Lists with CSS Counters
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this...
7th Apr 2020
Styling an ordered list can be surprisingly tricky; there's no way to get at that bullet! In this tutorial, we'll see a handy trick using CSS counters that lets us style ordered lists without breaking proper semantics.
elementary Blog
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts!
It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
13th Dec 2024
It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays!
Terminal
The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
charity.wtf
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it...
20th Jan 2022
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it was founded by two engineers and our mission involves building an engineering product for other engineers. We are never going to stop being engineering-driven in the sense that we...
Sedimental
Enterprise Software with Python
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a...
22nd Mar 2016
When I first published 10 Myths of Enterprise Python on
the PayPal Engineering blog, there were a lot of
reactions. Some I expected:
Surprise at Python in the enterprise space.
Relief at more attestation of Python's use in the enterprise.
And, as with all the best, a few...
Josh Comeau's blog
Magical Rainbow Gradients
If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible....
13th Jan 2020
If you've ever tried to animate a gradient, you've been met with a harsh reality—it isn't possible. At least, it wasn't! In this tutorial, we'll leverage bleeding-edge browser features to animate ANY CSS property, including background gradients, using CSS Houdini, CSS variables,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Code Review is Work
Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time
tracking, counting closed bugs, and,...
25th Jul 2021
Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time
tracking, counting closed bugs, and, infamously, by counting
lines of code. But what are organizations doing about the time
developers lose waiting for code review?
As an industry, we obsess over the 10x
developer...
Alice GG
Building Itako: an investment tracking application
Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing...
2nd Sep 2025
Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing with stock market data.
After reading way too many books on the subject, I started building my own tools which led me to creating Itako.
It’s a portfolio tracking and data...
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
23rd Jul 2013
Blog of Simple...
You are missing 20% of your website data with GA4
3rd Feb 2025
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
29th Feb 2024
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
Tinloof - Blog
Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await)
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
30th Aug 2020
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time.
First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called.
Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2021 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
22nd Aug 2023
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product...
14th May 2020
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product Status</h1>
<h2>Is the product available?</h2>
<div>
<h3>
<div>
<div>
<i>
<h3 class="message is-success">
It‘s <a>available</a>.
</h3>
...
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
14th Mar 2021
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web We Want Web Apps Survey Results
I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of...
5th Oct 2020
I've started to run initial validation surveys on Web We Want submissions to help determine which of the submissions are worth continuing to investigate. Note that despite some of the scores being negative, this doesn't necessarily mean the submission is invalidated, taking into...
Coding Horror
You Can't "Vibe Code" Love
About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in...
2 weeks ago
About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I...
23rd Oct 2016
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically.
In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data.
Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application.
It uses modern,...
TokyoDev
International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
One of the...
13th Feb 2014
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).*
One of the questions I've been asked several times by readers of this blog are [what are salaries of developers in Japan](/articles/software-developer-salaries-in-japan). There is a fair...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Implementing a Robust Web Audio API Balance Node
After more than four years, I'm finally happy with how Webamp implements balance.
16th Apr 2019
After more than four years, I'm finally happy with how Webamp implements balance.
Making software...
Introducing PageRoast
Introducing PageRoast
2021-03-11
Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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...
Sedimental
Developer variants
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job
titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job
titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment.
In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a
bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
6th Nov 2023
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
A Beautiful Site
Reflection and Custom States in Web Components
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both...
5th Jun 2024
In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property.
A...
Boot.dev Blog
Create a Course on Boot.dev
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented...
4th Sep 2025
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
Kagi Blog
Update to Kagi Search pricing
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and...
8th Mar 2023
It has been a while since our last update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) , and we have been busy with three main large-scale initiatives: a new pricing model that ensures Kagi’s sustainability, new plans including Family plans, and enhancing search experience...
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
19th Mar 2024
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
ntietz.com blog -...
Typing using my keyboard (the other kind)
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently.
It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore,...
7th Apr 2025
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently.
It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore, so I set it up in my office.
It's got 61 keys and you can hook up a pedal to it, too!
But when you hook it up to the computer, you can't type with it.
I mean, that's expected—it...
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
1st Feb 2023
This is part 3 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 (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
blag
It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python
It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of...
5th Feb 2023
It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of unit tests. But how does that work in practice? Is Python fast to ship?
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
1st Jun 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life:
Content warning: abuse, rape
Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave New Podcasts of 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
Kagi Blog
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
1st Jun 2022
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
Vadim Kravcenko
🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and...
6th Aug 2022
There was a study done in 2019 which had the goal of showcasing how poverty impacts our brains and the […]
The post 🤝 Engineering Scarcity Mindset appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
30th Apr 2023
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
Coding Horror
I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is...
30th Jan 2017
There is much I take for granted in my life, and the normal functioning of American government is one of those things. In my 46 years, I've lived under nine different presidents. The first I remember is Carter. I've voted in every presidential election since 1992,
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
30th Nov 2024
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
5th Nov 2023
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
ntietz.com blog -...
Automating updates to a digital vigil
November 20th each year is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR).
It is a day when we memorialize...
24th Nov 2025
November 20th each year is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR).
It is a day when we memorialize those who've been lost to transphobia, through violence or suicide.
And each year, I make the most difficult git commit of the year, updating the list of names in the digital vigil...
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
21st Mar 2021
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
13th Apr 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Marco.org
In-App Purchase Rules
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:
Your app must use Apple’s...
11th Sep 2020
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:
Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app.
Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
Herman's blog
PIRACYKILLS
How to use piracy to your advantage.
3rd Oct 2025
How to use piracy to your advantage.
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
24th Jan 2023
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project:
$...
4th Dec 2022
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project:
$ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n"
For example:
$ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
A Beautiful Site
How to remove box shadows from input controls on iOS
Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying,...
16th Sep 2015
Those default box shadows that appear inside of your input elements on iOS can be pretty annoying, especially if you're going for a flat or subtle look. Here's how to remove them.
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as setting the box-shadow property to none. Instead, you have to...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
Blog of Simple...
How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
20th Jan 2025
Making software...
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's...
2nd Sep 2020
My Raspberry Pi Desktop
2020-09-02
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it's pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86
emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL
3.0.
Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®,
OpenCL™,
and...
Matt Keeter
A cautionary tale about continuity
12th Apr 2025
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git...
4th Dec 2023
Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE
filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns
out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs,
GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9.
But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
Buttondown's blog
How we migrated to TypeIDs without breaking clients
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
1st Mar 2026
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
Maggie Appleton
The Gift Economy
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
3rd Aug 2020
Illustrated notes on the idea of Gift Economies and cultural historys of economic exchange
Charles Petzold
Protests Then and Now
When a government engages in deviant behavior, it is the responsibility of the people to express...
24th Mar 2026
When a government engages in deviant behavior, it is the responsibility of the people to express their opposition. That’s why I’ll be participating in the No Kings protest in New York City on Saturday. ... more ...
Basta’s Notes
Happier development
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
26th Mar 2026
On programming "the good old fashioned way"
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Basta’s Notes
The imminent risk of vibe coding
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
31st Jan 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
Jordan Eldredge's...
Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at...
1st Apr 2021
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at runtime.
charity.wtf
How to survive an acquisition
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse. I have so, so many feelings....
3rd Feb 2016
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse. I have so, so many feelings. But this isn’t about my feelings now. This is about what I wish I had known when we got acquired. When they told us we were getting acquired, it felt like a wrecking ball to the...
macwright.com
Recently
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun...
1st Sep 2023
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from
my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
23rd Jan 2023
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me:
Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false?
I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
11th Oct 2024
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken.
I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
1st Sep 2019
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial.
We have 1 goal: set up...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
1st Oct 2021
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
– Thomas Sowell
I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Blog of Simple...
Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit
7th Jan 2024
Making software...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-10-10
Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox
2017-10-10
Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait).
I...
Darek Kay
GitHub developer statistics
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
25th May 2021
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee:
1002 pull requests shipped
3062 pull requests reviewed
5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise)
LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
Josh Comeau's blog
You Don’t Need a UI Framework
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap....
3rd May 2022
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
Renegade Otter
A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts
A tale of two rewrites
Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”,...
8th Feb 2024
A tale of two rewrites
Jamie Zawinski is kind of a tech legend. He came up with the name “Mozilla”, invented that whole
thing where you can send HTML in emails, and more. In his harrowing work diary of how
Mosaic/Netscape
came to be, Jamie
described
the burnout rodeo that was...
wingolog
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is...
17th Dec 2025
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a
parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to
receive an award and give a speech. (I know, I am a ridiculous...
The History of the...
What happens to what we’ve already created?
When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it...
11th Feb 2025
When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created.
The post What happens to what we’ve already created? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Tony Finch's blog
RIPE DNS Hackathon
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the
RIPE DNS Hackathon.
About 50 people gathered with several...
22nd May 2023
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the
RIPE DNS Hackathon.
About 50 people gathered with several ideas for potential projects: things
like easier DNSSEC provisioning, monitoring DNS activity in the network,
what is the environmental cost of the DNS, …
At the start of the weekend...
Maggie Appleton
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
1st Mar 2020
A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
1st Nov 2024
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here.
As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
11th Feb 2024
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
1st Jun 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The...
5th Nov 2024
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior
I’ve been at my current job for three years, and I am suddenly, accidentally, the most senior...
1st Nov 2020
I’ve been at my current job for three years, and I am suddenly, accidentally, the most senior engineer on the team. I spend my days handling things like bootcamps, mentoring, architecture, and helping other engineers carve off meaningful work. This has taken a huge toll on the...
Sometimes It Works...
2024: Just the Start
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
31st Dec 2024
2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it.
Here are a few highlights:
We went to Japan! My first time in...
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at
Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found...
9th Feb 2013
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at
Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found myself a very lonely desktop Linux user.
Also, since this job is my first heavy-duty exposure to back-end web
development, I’ve found myself a very confused desktop Linux...
Daniel Marino
Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite
After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
29th Jan 2015
After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew:
First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
The History of the...
Did you want that link to be permanent?
Permalinks are commonplace on the web. But it took the rise of blogging to codify them, and bring...
11th Feb 2026
Permalinks are commonplace on the web. But it took the rise of blogging to codify them, and bring them out into the world. And it all started with a single exchange of blogs.
The post Did you want that link to be permanent? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate Arrives on Mobile
Kagi Translate ( https://translate.kagi.com/ ) is now available as an app for Android and iOS! The...
3rd Feb 2026
Kagi Translate ( https://translate.kagi.com/ ) is now available as an app for Android and iOS! The mobile release brings the same high-quality, customizable, and private translations of Kagi Translate to your smartphone, making it easy to translate voice, text, and images in...
Jake Zimmerman
Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
Steve Klabnik
Why is Clojure so stable?
18th Dec 2018
tonsky.me
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice...
5th Jan 2026
I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration:
accompanied by explanation:
Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating...
Boot.dev Blog
Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the...
2nd Dec 2020
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the difference between a certificate and a diploma was. I was terrified that I’d have to go back to school and spend 2-4 years getting a degree in computer science before an employer would...
seated.ro
Devlog 001
This is a general devlog covering what I’ve been up to over the past few months!
Haskell
Hakyll is a...
13th Jul 2025
This is a general devlog covering what I’ve been up to over the past few months!
Haskell
Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static websites (yes, you do not, in fact, need Next.js for your personal site).
The previous iteration of my website was written with Go + templ,...
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Contraption Co.
Introducing The Contraption Company
Today I'm introducing my new business, The Contraption Company - a product studio building...
4th Nov 2022
Today I'm introducing my new business, The Contraption Company - a product studio building dependable software tools for online work.
Slow growth makes steady progress
In the past, I've built VC-backed startups like Moonlight and Staffjoy. For these companies, we worked hard...
Eric Bailey
Oh shit banners
I have worked for two newspapers over the course of my career (three if you count my high school...
3rd Jan 2024
I have worked for two newspapers over the course of my career (three if you count my high school newspaper). One thing I learned there is that the top half of each and every newspaper homepage is a daily battle of priorities.
The idea here is that the thing that is highest,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The future of large files in Git is Git
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;}
If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
15th Aug 2025
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;}
If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files.
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone,
and wreak havoc on Git forges.
In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around
problems...
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Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech
What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
4th Mar 2021
What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
15th Sep 2024
Eric Bailey
Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
6th Jun 2024
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”.
Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
Josh Comeau's blog
Why React Re-Renders
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
Epic Web Dev
Tailwind CSS Color Tokens (tutorial)
19th Aug 2024
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Manifest a Meetup
This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for...
15th Jul 2022
This week I was visiting NYC for work reasons, and found myself with a gap on my schedule for Thursday night. So I [tweeted out an invite](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1546219659195826178):
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site.
I recently added a fairly...
home automation -...
An Efficient Multi-Stage Build for Python Django in Docker
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment...
21st Jun 2020
We’ve recently begun dockerizing our applications in an effort to make development and deployment easier. One of the challenges was establishing a good baseline Dockerfile which can maximize the benefits of Dockers caching mechanism and at the same time provide minimal...
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...
11th Apr 2023
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...
Buttondown's blog
How Jeremy Singer-Vine uses Buttondown
Jeremy publishes Data Is Plural, a "weekly journal of useful/curious datasets" that uses Buttondown...
2nd Dec 2023
Jeremy publishes Data Is Plural, a "weekly journal of useful/curious datasets" that uses Buttondown to manage subscribers and send emails
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent...
11th Apr 2024
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
8th Dec 2024
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
9th Feb 2015
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day.
When someone has a grievance, take an...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The...
3rd Dec 2014
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
SOS
React.js: The Documentary & Q&A
In 2022 I had the great pleasure to chat with Ida Bechtle (https://twitter.com/BechtleIda) as part...
19th Feb 2023
In 2022 I had the great pleasure to chat with Ida Bechtle (https://twitter.com/BechtleIda) as part of a retelling of the early story of the creation of the React.js JavaScript library (I wrote about this previously here). The documentary is now available to watch for free on...
The History of the...
We Are Still the Web
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
5th Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it.
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These Yaks Ain't...
How to Actually Integrate Angular and Nestjs
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be...
15th Sep 2023
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be completely separate.
I started anew side project recently. You know, one of things that allows me to tinker with new technology but will probably never be finished.
I’m using Angular for...
Tony Finch's blog
first-class merges and cover letters
Although it looks really good, I have not yet tried the Jujutsu (jj)
version control system,...
11th Sep 2025
Although it looks really good, I have not yet tried the Jujutsu (jj)
version control system, mainly
because it’s not yet clearly superior to Magit.
But I have been following jj discussions with great interest.
One of the things that jj has not yet tackled is how to do better...
Elad Blog
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7th Feb 2023
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Copper • A blog...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
17th Jan 2023
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels.
You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision.
Closing the lid is not an option because you...
Eric Bailey
CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks.
CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the...
21 hours ago
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks.
CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this.
The...
The Changelog
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
4th Apr 2024
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
7th Mar 2025
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
Ognjen Regoje •...
BSL is not good, it's great
Another day, another project adopted BSL.
Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
1st Sep 2023
Another day, another project adopted BSL.
Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source.
Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
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...
4th Jan 2024
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
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
23rd May 2022
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created.
Finding Campsites
My wife...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I'm glad I factored out jQuery
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
13th Dec 2014
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.)
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
7th Nov 2017
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written.
Here’s a typical case:
#if defined (_MSC_VER)
// code specific to Visual Studio compiler
#endif
To perform those checks you need to check...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
dthompson
Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for
about a decade now. I even wrote...
8th Jul 2024
I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for
about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of
blog
posts back in 2014
describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was
Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web
that once had FRP as a
core part of...
Sedimental
Python Community Intro
The PSF
just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community",
then autosubscribed a bunch of people and...
22nd Sep 2015
The PSF
just created a new mailing list, "PSF-Community",
then autosubscribed a bunch of people and solicited introductions. At
first I was surprised, but I was quickly charmed by
the response and joined in on the action. Here's what
I wrote:
If Alex Martelli is doing it, then...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Literate Vimrc
Literate ~/.vimrc
This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now.
Hold on, let me explain.
Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc
This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now.
Hold on, let me explain.
Why would anyone do a thing like this?
I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to
leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is
hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
Tony Finch's blog
poached eggs
A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs
(in the shell, with plenty of salt and...
14th Mar 2026
A few weeks ago I was enjoying a couple of boiled eggs
(in the shell, with plenty of salt and pepper, and buttery fingers of
toast to dunk into the runny yolk)
and pondering how fiddly it is to cut off one end of the shell after
boiling compared to eating a poached egg. And I was...
the singularity is...
you can never go back
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system.
I like the Retro Game...
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving React
Looking back, and forward
Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
22nd Sep 2022
Looking back, and forward
Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are.
I find this bizarre for two...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early simulations with GravityLoops
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