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Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
15th May 2025
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Beware the Complexity Merchants

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

15th May 2025
When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
1st May 2010
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

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

1st May 2010
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What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
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What I'm up to - December 2025

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

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
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The Great CEO Within It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very...
18th Mar 2021
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The Great CEO Within

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

18th Mar 2021
It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very fortunate to be involved in this project. This is the best book I've read on making the journey from founder to CEO.
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Early simulations with GravityLoops <![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...
13th Jul 2026
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Early simulations with GravityLoops

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

13th Jul 2026
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen. The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...
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Questioning and adjusting our goals * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know...
9th Jan 2011
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Questioning and adjusting our goals

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

9th Jan 2011
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * People who know me know that I like to make things systematic when I can, and doing so helps me make sense of things and have confidence in my actions. In addition to making things systematic, I...
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#12 accessible poll yes/no Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this...
3rd Dec 2019
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#12 accessible poll yes/no

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2019
Bad code <form role="form"> <h2>Poll title</h2> <div id="pollQuestion">Is this accessible?</div> <div name="pollGroup" role="radiogroup"> <div role="radiogroup" aria-label="Poll title"> <input type="radio" name="poll" aria-labelledby="pollQuestion" value="[object...
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Community I’ve been taking a break from Mastodon as my social home on the web for about six weeks. It has been...
2 weeks ago
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Community

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

2 weeks ago
I’ve been taking a break from Mastodon as my social home on the web for about six weeks. It has been more difficult than I’d usually admit. I have an amazing local community in my town that I love and am deeply involved in. But nobody here is a programmer, or even a computer...
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My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
2nd Sep 2024
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My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool

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

2nd Sep 2024
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
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2015-12-04 www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
4th Dec 2015
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2015-12-04

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

4th Dec 2015
www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
23rd Oct 2016
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects

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

23rd Oct 2016
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
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My LinkedIn break - six weeks in About six weeks ago, I decided to take some time away from LinkedIn. I won’t go into the reasons...
1st Feb 2026
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My LinkedIn break - six weeks in

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2026
About six weeks ago, I decided to take some time away from LinkedIn. I won’t go into the reasons behind this decision again, you can read all about that in the post I just linked to, but I do want to take some time and look back on the past six weeks and the things that not...
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice...
5th Jan 2026
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

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

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...
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Delaying asset requests in Eleventy While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
29th Sep 2023
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Delaying asset requests in Eleventy

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

29th Sep 2023
While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
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What I'm up to - November 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
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What I'm up to - November 2024

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

1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
13th May 2022
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website

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

13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries...
20th May 2023
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Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

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

20th May 2023
One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or...
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Moving to San Francisco YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
24th Feb 2020
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Moving to San Francisco

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

24th Feb 2020
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

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

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner: Bibliography
20th Aug 2025
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Exploiting Firebase Apps with Baserunner: Bibliography

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

20th Aug 2025
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Not everybody is an AI expert - and that’s fine This post was previously published through my newsletter on November 9, 2026. From time to time, I...
2 days ago
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Not everybody is an AI expert - and that’s fine

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 days ago
This post was previously published through my newsletter on November 9, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I...
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Every Man a Microservice Contra Conway
8th Feb 2026
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Every Man a Microservice

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

8th Feb 2026
Contra Conway
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Revisiting Buttons and Cursors The CSS Working Group resolved to use cursor: pointer for buttons and other clickable form controls...
a week ago
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Revisiting Buttons and Cursors

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

a week ago
The CSS Working Group resolved to use cursor: pointer for buttons and other clickable form controls in the new appearance: base styles. That happened on October 21, but I posted about it yesterday and, uh, people have feelings about cursors. I wrote about buttons and cursors back...
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Mac OS X keychain fix How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
29th Oct 2007
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Mac OS X keychain fix

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

29th Oct 2007
How to fix a corrupt keychain file on Mac OS X
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
2nd Mar 2018
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo

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

2nd Mar 2018
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
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Why Build a Robot Company? So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
6th Feb 2023
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Why Build a Robot Company?

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

6th Feb 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
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How To Google Your Errors ---
4th Jan 2018
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How To Google Your Errors

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

4th Jan 2018
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CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
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CSS Slope Graphs

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

7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let’s change that, shall we? The Demo I’m basing...
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I ranked 5th in the Indie Dev Game Jam #4! I wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune…
20th Jul 2024
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I ranked 5th in the Indie Dev Game Jam #4!

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

20th Jul 2024
I wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune…
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A cautionary tale about continuity
12th Apr 2025
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A cautionary tale about continuity

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

12th Apr 2025
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What is HiFi I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless...
10th Dec 2023
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What is HiFi

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

10th Dec 2023
I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was...
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization" In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization"

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

22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
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Email explained from first principles

from Explained from First Principles [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2021
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A Metaphorical Reading Collection A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
1st Jun 2020
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A Metaphorical Reading Collection

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

1st Jun 2020
A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
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New year, new calendar We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
2nd Jan 2024
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New year, new calendar

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

2nd Jan 2024
We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉 See, it turns out that lots of people would...
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Name that Wäre, July 2023 The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to...
31st Jul 2023
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Name that Wäre, July 2023

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

31st Jul 2023
The “wäre” for July 2023 is shown below. Thanks to zebonaut for submitting this ware. According to him, this was fished out of a dumpster in Germany, hence “wäre” (and yes, it’s a nonsense word, but I also think it’s cute). We had a little chuckle over the ware’s construction (or...
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French onion soup redux If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
2nd Jan 2012
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French onion soup redux

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

2nd Jan 2012
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me. But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
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Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
9th Aug 2023
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Can I Speak To Someone?

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

9th Aug 2023
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
21st Jun 2019
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense

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

21st Jun 2019
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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Type Safety (workshop) TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch...
18th Feb 2026
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Type Safety (workshop)

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

18th Feb 2026
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch bugs at compile time instead of in production.
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Recently Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
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Recently

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

1st Jun 2023
Listening My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous Chapo Trap House podcast. Reading It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced...
24th Feb 2015
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Dresses, 'dressing up', and the software industry

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

24th Feb 2015
A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
22nd Jan 2025
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Death of the Visceral

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

22nd Jan 2025
Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
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How to design an accessible carousel In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
21st Apr 2024
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How to design an accessible carousel

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

21st Apr 2024
In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. Outcome Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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

11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
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Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
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Who gets to do strategy?

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

6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
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No More Blue Fridays In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve...
21st Jul 2024
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No More Blue Fridays

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

21st Jul 2024
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been...
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Sine and cosine Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can...
9th Dec 2019
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Sine and cosine

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

9th Dec 2019
Interactive mnemonics and changeable snippets.TL&DR: Sine is like S and cosine is like C. You can make things like O or 8 by using them both.
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dict() vs. {} There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the...
1st Dec 2022
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dict() vs. {}

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

1st Dec 2022
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the literal syntax: {}. And in many cases, these are equivalent choices, so you might give it little thought and assume they both take the same amount of time. But they don't! Starting...
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Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
18th Mar 2022
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Programmable Notes

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

18th Mar 2022
Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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All about the new Data Transfer Framework
2nd Aug 2023
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All about the new Data Transfer Framework

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

2nd Aug 2023
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
21st Jul 2023
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator

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

21st Jul 2023
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker' When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
3rd Jan 2014
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I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'

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

3rd Jan 2014
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
25th Feb 2022
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Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer

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

25th Feb 2022
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
13th Aug 2021
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Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400

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

13th Aug 2021
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400 2021-08-13 I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
6th Mar 2025
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp

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

6th Mar 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
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Decaf is good, actually We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give...
1st Apr 2024
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Decaf is good, actually

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

1st Apr 2024
We have made decaf a villain. We often malign decaf coffee and those who drink it. "No thanks, give me the good stuff." "Death before decaf." "Decaf isn't coffee." It has this reputation that it's bad and that coffee people avoid it. And yet, if you drink decaf, you're a true...
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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...
22nd Mar 2018
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Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science

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

22nd Mar 2018
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....
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On Progress The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to...
18th Jan 2022
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On Progress

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

18th Jan 2022
The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter. Not me though. For whatever reason,...
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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SimpleImage 3.0 Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for...
10th Jan 2017
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SimpleImage 3.0

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

10th Jan 2017
Back in 2011, I released the first version of SimpleImage for PHP — an open source project for working with images. Today, version 3.0 has landed, and there's a lot to love about it. Overview # Here's how it works at a glance: try { // Create a new SimpleImage object $image =...
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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
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I'm glad I factored out jQuery

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

13th Dec 2014
I refactored Winamp2-js to not depend on jQuery, and learned native JavaScript is not so bad.
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How good is Claude, really? At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
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How good is Claude, really?

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

4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype. One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
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Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
11th Nov 2016
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Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

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

11th Nov 2016
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Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
28th Jun 2023
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Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?

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

28th Jun 2023
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
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My wireguard IPv6 tunnel Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6....
30th Apr 2024
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My wireguard IPv6 tunnel

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

30th Apr 2024
Our net connection at home is not great: amongst its several misfeatures is a lack of IPv6. Yesterday I (at last!) got around to setting up a wireguard IPv6 VPN tunnel between my workstation and my Mythic Beasts virtual private server. There were a few, um, learning...
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions

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

18th Feb 2026
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GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
19th Feb 2022
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GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective

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

19th Feb 2022
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out! Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
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Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

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

17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
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Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
1st Mar 2017
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Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative

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

1st Mar 2017
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean

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

2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
5th Nov 2023
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Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data

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

5th Nov 2023
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
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It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
14th Mar 2022
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It needs to map back to a role

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

14th Mar 2022
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
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constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
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constantly divisionless random numbers

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

5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
25th Jul 2021
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

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

25th Jul 2021
I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
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WP Enqueue for Beginners WP Enqueue for Beginners 2020-05-05 Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing...
5th May 2020
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WP Enqueue for Beginners

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

5th May 2020
WP Enqueue for Beginners 2020-05-05 Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing WordPress themes, I've come across many that include their custom styles / scripts as static HTML elements inside their respective header and footer templates. This is perfectly fine, but...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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

15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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How Jeremy Singer-Vine uses Buttondown Jeremy publishes Data Is Plural, a "weekly journal of useful/curious datasets" that uses Buttondown...
2nd Dec 2023
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How Jeremy Singer-Vine uses Buttondown

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

2nd Dec 2023
Jeremy publishes Data Is Plural, a "weekly journal of useful/curious datasets" that uses Buttondown to manage subscribers and send emails
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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
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thinking around a pen

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

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...
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Stopwatch ASIC
19th Apr 2010
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Stopwatch ASIC

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

19th Apr 2010
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

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

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
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Best Rust books for 2024 There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are...
5th Jul 2024
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Best Rust books for 2024

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

5th Jul 2024
There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
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How to Bootstrap a Town A modest plan
1st Oct 2024
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How to Bootstrap a Town

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

1st Oct 2024
A modest plan
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Rethinking reactivity **Nue JS** is a tiny, 2.1kb min-brotlied library for building user interfaces. It's an alternative...
2nd Oct 2023
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Rethinking reactivity

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
**Nue JS** is a tiny, 2.1kb min-brotlied library for building user interfaces. It's an alternative to frameworks like *Vue*, *React*, and *Svelte* — and it's the central piece of the [Nue ecosystem](/), which is a ridiculously easier alternative to *Next.js* and *Astro*
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Cormac McCarthy's library Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
1st Sep 2025
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Cormac McCarthy's library

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

1st Sep 2025
Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
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A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
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A float walks into a gradual type system

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

2nd Mar 2025
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
10th May 2025
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

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

10th May 2025
Merkle Trees in the real world
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Eating the Cloud from Outside In AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
4th Oct 2021
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Eating the Cloud from Outside In

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

4th Oct 2021
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to? ---
3rd Feb 2018
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What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?

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

3rd Feb 2018
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I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
6th Mar 2023
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I doubled-down on RSS

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

6th Mar 2023
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
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Must we always use LLMs this way? As with my last post on AI, let me open with a statement: Just because most people hold AI a certain...
a week ago
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Must we always use LLMs this way?

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

a week ago
As with my last post on AI, let me open with a statement: Just because most people hold AI a certain way, doesn’t mean that we always must, either now or in the future. As I noted in that piece, and my shades of gray post, I am well aware — and agree with — … Continue reading...
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Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
17th Jun 2021
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Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative

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

17th Jun 2021
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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
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2024: Just the Start

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

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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Webhooks and the programming page Use the Buttondown API to supercharge your newsletter
6th Jan 2021
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Webhooks and the programming page

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

6th Jan 2021
Use the Buttondown API to supercharge your newsletter
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getentropy() vs RAND_bytes() A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
1st Oct 2024
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getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()

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

1st Oct 2024
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy() which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting cryptographically secure random...
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
4th Sep 2026
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The best data warehouses for developers, compared

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

4th Sep 2026
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming...
12th Jul 2021
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Golang vs C++: Which is Best For Your Next Project

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

12th Jul 2021
Needing to be a math genius to learn to code is a thing of the past. High-level programming languages offer an alternative to low-level machine code, which makes coding more accessible than ever. Let’s dive into how Golang, a modern higher-level language, matches up to C++, a...
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Emoji Griddle
30th Oct 2024
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Emoji Griddle

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

30th Oct 2024
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One year of dependable software Today I'm introducing a new part of Contraption Company: Essays covering thoughts and opinions on...
10th Nov 2023
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One year of dependable software

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2023
Today I'm introducing a new part of Contraption Company: Essays covering thoughts and opinions on online work, dependability, tools, and craft. My name is Philip, and I'm the founder and owner of Contraption Company. I started this company as an idea in February 2020. I tinkered
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Everyone a writer "The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a...
8th Jul 2016
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Everyone a writer

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

8th Jul 2016
"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! For everyone is pained by the thought of...
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Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023) Read the post here.
11th Jul 2023
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Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023)

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

11th Jul 2023
Read the post here.
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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

16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
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Kinda a big announcement The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I...
2nd Jun 2021
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Kinda a big announcement

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

2nd Jun 2021
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot

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

8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
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I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
17th Oct 2024
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I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too

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

17th Oct 2024
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
18th Mar 2010
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Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer

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

18th Mar 2010
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
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Coding at work (after a decade away). Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104...
19th Nov 2025
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Coding at work (after a decade away).

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

19th Nov 2025
Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104 pull requests, which is slightly over four per week. Many of them are very minimal configuration and documentation tweaks, and none were the hardest or even most time-sensitive task...
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448...
29th Sep 2025
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

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

29th Sep 2025
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448 characters void main(){vec3 c,p,K=vec3(3,1,0);for(float...
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Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate...
4th Dec 2024
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Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released

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

4th Dec 2024
We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate background jobs that we introduced earlier this year. This new version is the result of 92 pull requests, 67 issues and the help of 35 different contributors. It includes many...
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Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
4th Feb 2025
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Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts

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

4th Feb 2025
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
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What I'm up to - January 2023 ✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
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What I'm up to - January 2023

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

1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
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Kagi passes an independent security audit Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
29th Aug 2022
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Kagi passes an independent security audit

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

29th Aug 2022
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
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Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
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Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing

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

13th May 2017
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How I use the notes field in my password manager I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
4th Jan 2025
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How I use the notes field in my password manager

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2025
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task. I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts. Each...
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed

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

29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
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Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
13th Dec 2021
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Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater

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

13th Dec 2021
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
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Verifying my web archives with Playwright To protect against link rot and disappearing content, I save local copies of web pages I like into...
a week ago
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Verifying my web archives with Playwright

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
To protect against link rot and disappearing content, I save local copies of web pages I like into my web archive. Ideally, this archive is completely self-contained. I want a local copy of each page’s HTML and all the assets it depends on (CSS, images, scripts, and so...
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My Biggest Mistake… So Far My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right...
2nd Dec 2015
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My Biggest Mistake… So Far

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

2nd Dec 2015
My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right Amount of Selfish ¶My Biggest Mistake… So Far ¶or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity Check out this video from a couple of weeks ago: Selfless vs SelfishDid you notice the...
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The Internet explained from first principles
5th Aug 2020
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The Internet explained from first principles

from Explained from First Principles [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2020
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Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
28th May 2024
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Daily Inspirational Word

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

28th May 2024
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
6th Jun 2021
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

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6th Jun 2021
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
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How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

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

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them in a separate post - basically the McClusky Curve...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines

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

3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
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Support for Stripe Payment Links It's even easier to get paid subscribers with Stripe's new Payment Links
9th Sep 2021
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Support for Stripe Payment Links

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

9th Sep 2021
It's even easier to get paid subscribers with Stripe's new Payment Links
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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
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Covers as a way of learning music and code

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

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...
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What I'm up to - May 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
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What I'm up to - May 2026

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

1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
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Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The...
31st Dec 2017
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Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2017
One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The Settlers of Catan. This game has brought me and my friends many an hour of good entertainment. The game is played on a hexagon field with 19 hexagon tiles (3 + 4 + 5 + 4 […] The post...
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Stuff I've been working on It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a...
7th Oct 2024
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Stuff I've been working on

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

7th Oct 2024
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs. Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on. Meme...
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Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten...
3rd Oct 2019
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Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying

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

3rd Oct 2019
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’t know where they came from, what depends on them, and if they are safe to delete. For example, the dreaded 15 6 2 1 *...
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The Deployment Fidelity Problem The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a...
31st Aug 2021
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The Deployment Fidelity Problem

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

31st Aug 2021
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users as quickly as possible? – Continuous Delivery Production is a low-fidelity version of your codebase. Many deployment metrics are just a...
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops...
4th Mar 2022
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How to Build the Best GitHub Profile for Your Job Search

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

4th Mar 2022
I’ve reviewed a lot of resumes, both as an engineering manager and in the monthly resume workshops we do in the Boot.dev Discord group. I’m convinced that these days a developer’s GitHub profile is just as important as their resume itself. If you haven’t started your first job...
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs....
5th Nov 2018
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Why you Might Want to Extend React Components

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

5th Nov 2018
Do not extend components. If there is anything React community agrees upon, this is it. Use HOCs. Use state managers (and their connector HOCs). Use render props. Do not inherit. Remember, composition over inheritance! Obey your guru. Once upon a time, a developer extended his...
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Privacy Monthly May
1st May 2024
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Privacy Monthly May

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

1st May 2024
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#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
9th Jan 2017
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#define CTO OpenAI

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

9th Jan 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
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Naming Variables the Right Way I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming...
1st Apr 2021
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Naming Variables the Right Way

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

1st Apr 2021
I’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming more than one might suspect. For example, a developer uses a rateLimit variable expecting it to be denominated in seconds while it represents minutes, resulting in a 6x slower...
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Navigation updates You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
17th Oct 2020
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Navigation updates

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

17th Oct 2020
You asked, and we listened. We've updated the navigation to be more usable.
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
10th May 2022
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac)

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

10th May 2022
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
4th Dec 2020
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback

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

4th Dec 2020
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

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

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
5th Aug 2025
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML

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

5th Aug 2025
Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious...
17th Oct 2025
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A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape

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

17th Oct 2025
TL;DR? It’s a quagmire, essentially. But let’s dive in. Possible strong language ahead, and copious footnotes with links to much more information below. scalper noun [ C ] US informal /ˈskæl.pər/ (UK: tout) someone who buys things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual prices and...
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Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
8th Aug 2024
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Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython

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

8th Aug 2024
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
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Computational Notebooks Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
18th Apr 2023
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Computational Notebooks

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

18th Apr 2023
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
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Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
15th Jun 2023
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Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet

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

15th Jun 2023
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
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I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
5th Jun 2024
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I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong

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

5th Jun 2024
Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

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

10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
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A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
27th Dec 2021
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A comprehensive list of failed projects

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

27th Dec 2021
A comprehensive list of failed projects
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Announcing The Assistant Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience,...
4th Sep 2024
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Announcing The Assistant

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

4th Sep 2024
Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience, creating a smarter, faster, and more intuitive search.
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How we built Buttondown's new docs We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
6th May 2024
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How we built Buttondown's new docs

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

6th May 2024
We're excited to share our brand new documentation site.
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Invisible success I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are...
17th Apr 2024
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Invisible success

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

17th Apr 2024
I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because I think we went about making it the right way: Identifying an...
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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

10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
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Close Access Denial I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
1st Oct 2023
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Close Access Denial

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

1st Oct 2023
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
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Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
31st Dec 2016
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Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2016
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
6th Feb 2023
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Five

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

6th Feb 2023
It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
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A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
24th Sep 2023
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A case for stacked patches 📚

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

24th Sep 2023
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, [email protected] Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
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Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
2nd Jun 2025
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Kagi status update: First three years

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

2nd Jun 2025
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors Explaining React through visual metaphors
1st May 2020
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Drawing the Invisible: React Explained in Five Visual Metaphors

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

1st May 2020
Explaining React through visual metaphors
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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
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

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

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...
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Backgrounds Are Important I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶...
15th Sep 2025
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Backgrounds Are Important

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

15th Sep 2025
I̸ ̸s̸t̸a̷r̶t̵e̷d̵ ̴w̵a̷t̶c̸h̶i̴n̸g̵ ̴t̵h̴e̶ ̸P̶y̴t̴h̸o̶n̴ ̵d̶o̵c̷u̵m̷e̴n̴t̷a̸r̶y̴,̶ ̸[̶r̷e̶c̶e̴n̷t̵l̷y̷ ̷a̶v̵a̸i̷l̸a̷b̷l̴e̷ ̸o̷n̸ ̵Y̴o̷u̶T̴u̴b̶e̸]̴(̵h̸t̵t̷p̴s̸:̴/̸/̴w̸w̴w̶.̵y̶o̶u̵t̵u̴b̶e̸.̴c̷o̷m̷/̵w̵a̴t̷c̴h̵?̷v̴=̵G̵f̶H̶4̵Q̷L̸4̸V̸q̴J̵0̴)̷,̴ ̴b̴u̵t̷ ̴I̴ ̸c̷o̸u̸l̶d̴n̸’̴t̷ ̷g̷e̷t̵...
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Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
21st Dec 2016
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Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult

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

21st Dec 2016
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
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Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer. Simple tools can extract assets and source...
3rd Apr 2026
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Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering

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

3rd Apr 2026
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer. Simple tools can extract assets and source code from the packaged files. If you are making commercial games you probably want to take some steps to avoid this. Jorien Loman Godot RE Tools The most popular Godot reverse...
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JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for...
1st Nov 2018
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JavaScript’s Maps For Better Performance

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

1st Nov 2018
This article is not intended to explore the API of the Map object in details. If you’re looking for such a source, please check out MDN. In general, the Map data structure is useful when we want to retrieve/add/delete values through a set of unique keys. One of the...
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
22nd Sep 2023
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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

22nd Sep 2023
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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CSS vs. JavaScript There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether...
26th May 2026
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CSS vs. JavaScript

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

26th May 2026
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies...
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Buried by the media "No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly,...
5th Sep 2016
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Buried by the media

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

5th Sep 2016
"No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly, Jerry Flemmons of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram turned to me and said, 'Cochran, if we're gonna write a story about the burial of Lee Harvey Oswald, we're gonna have to bury the son of...
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
31st Jan 2023
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Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats?

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

31st Jan 2023
Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
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Review: Bezos
21st Sep 2024
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Review: Bezos

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

21st Sep 2024
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That bleeping kerfuffle After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
18th Jun 2017
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That bleeping kerfuffle

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

18th Jun 2017
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio. I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
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A geek feminism anecdote Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
19th Dec 2013
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A geek feminism anecdote

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

19th Dec 2013
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future. Some friends and I randomly...
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Focusing on Focus Styles
29th Mar 2018
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Focusing on Focus Styles

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

29th Mar 2018
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My desk setup in 2025. Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together...
7th Jun 2025
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My desk setup in 2025.

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

7th Jun 2025
Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together at this point. I don’t really think my desk setup is very novel, and I’m sure there are better ways to pull it together, but I will say that it finally works the way I want since...
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Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine **Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect...
18th Feb 2024
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Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2024
**Adam Wathan** explained in his [keynote speech](//youtu.be/CLkxRnRQtDE?t=109) at Tailwind Connect 2023 how Tailwind CSS was born out of this sentence:
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<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
31st Oct 2022
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<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell

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

31st Oct 2022
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
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Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a...
27th Oct 2022
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Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme

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

27th Oct 2022
It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
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The Best Decade in Music Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in...
14th Dec 2024
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The Best Decade in Music

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

14th Dec 2024
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in other words by pleading “Mom, can you get this album for me?” — was Meet the Beatles!, their first release in the United States. But so what? I have about as much inclination to...
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My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
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My friend, JT

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

22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
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Accelerometer Poi
20th Mar 2013
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Accelerometer Poi

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

20th Mar 2013
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
8th Jun 2025
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not

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

8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
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Progressive enhancement brings everyone in Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
7th Jan 2025
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Progressive enhancement brings everyone in

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

7th Jan 2025
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement. The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
9th Feb 2021
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions

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

9th Feb 2021
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
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Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
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Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed. Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
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Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
21st Feb 2024
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Things I Don't Know About AI

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

21st Feb 2024
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
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Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

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

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
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Growth
8th Mar 2008
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Growth

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

8th Mar 2008
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Self-hosting your code on Gitea Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product? The best way to shield yourself from that is...
16th Oct 2025
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Self-hosting your code on Gitea

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

16th Oct 2025
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product? The best way to shield yourself from that is to start self-hosting your code repositories. I have been running a self-hosted instance of Gitea for around two months, and so far the process has been pretty close to...
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

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

7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM) If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)

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

1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

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

11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
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Benefits as a Reflection of Values “We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper,...
20th Apr 2022
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Benefits as a Reflection of Values

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

20th Apr 2022
“We offer the best health insurance we could find” is what we promise in our job postings. On paper, this is accurate: the health insurance Oxide offers is the best plan we can find that is offered to small businesses. What we left unsaid until now is that the best health...
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it...
3rd Mar 2026
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

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

3rd Mar 2026
On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely. It's undeniable there's a metric...
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Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working....
23rd Oct 2025
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Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Oct 2025
Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev Containers...
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Exercise: a requirement for sleep? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have...
21st Nov 2010
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Exercise: a requirement for sleep?

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

21st Nov 2010
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8 and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it is vital that I wake up refreshed
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
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The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps

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

7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
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10 Myths of Enterprise Python (Originally posted on the PayPal Engineering blog, reproduced here with minor updates, link fixes,...
25th Aug 2015
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10 Myths of Enterprise Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2015
(Originally posted on the PayPal Engineering blog, reproduced here with minor updates, link fixes, etc.) PayPal enjoys a remarkable amount of linguistic pluralism in its programming culture. In addition to the long-standing popularity of C++ and Java, an increasing number of...
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“Fantasy on a Fugue” (Revisited) This has been on my to-do list for 40 years. ... more ...
2nd Aug 2024
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“Fantasy on a Fugue” (Revisited)

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

2nd Aug 2024
This has been on my to-do list for 40 years. ... more ...
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Barbershop multi-track: Cry I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
7th May 2008
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Barbershop multi-track: Cry

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

7th May 2008
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
4th Jul 2026
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers

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

4th Jul 2026
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Yearly Reading: Done and To Do Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your brain. The ways in which...
26th Jan 2017
1

Yearly Reading: Done and To Do

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

26th Jan 2017
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your brain. The ways in which audio-visual consumption of fiction and reading fiction diverge is in their demand on engagement – when reading I must learn new words, I struggle to find meaning, I use my imagination,...
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