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Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
4th Feb 2025
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Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps

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

4th Feb 2025
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
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The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible
2nd Nov 2024
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The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible

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

2nd Nov 2024
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Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012) I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already...
17th Sep 2012
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Memories of Sapporo Ruby Kaigi 2012 (#sprk2012)

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2012
I'm writing this from the Starbucks in the Sapporo Grand Hotel. When I arrived, there was already [another Rubyist here](https://twitter.com/igaiga555/status/247511186394972160). Five minutes before, I met [another one](https://twitter.com/yotii23) walking down the street. Last...
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How Many Hours Can You Code? How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
18th Dec 2024
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How Many Hours Can You Code?

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

18th Dec 2024
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective. In my life, there have only been three periods where I
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production...
1st May 2019
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Friday Deploy Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies

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

1st May 2019
VOICEOVER: “Previously, on twitter …” Happy Friday |￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Don't push to production |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (___/) || (⌾ㅅ⌾) || / 　 づ — Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) April 12, 2019 So, that happened. I hadn’t seen anyone say something like this in quite a while.  I remember saying things like...
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The Truth About “MEH-TRICS” First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long...
13th Apr 2022
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The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”

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

13th Apr 2022
First published on 2022-04-13 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/truth-about-meh-trics-metrics A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. “Metrics are shit salad.” “Metrics are simply nerfed dimensions.” “Metrics suck,” “metrics...
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A new home for all my apps: apps.chofter.com Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new...
3 weeks ago
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A new home for all my apps: apps.chofter.com

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new things has massively increased with the advent of AI, and I’ve been encouraged by the fact that, as I approach my sixth decade, new ideas for useful & fun things to build still...
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Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
9th Jul 2017
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Craigslist Alerts with Python

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

9th Jul 2017
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
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Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
23rd Mar 2025
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Occlusion with Bells On

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

23rd Mar 2025
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
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Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design
2nd Jun 2016
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Organizational buy-in on Responsive Design

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

2nd Jun 2016
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2025 Project: “The Lost Art of Logarithms” I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do have New Year’s projects, and for 2025 I hope to spend...
1st Jan 2025
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2025 Project: “The Lost Art of Logarithms”

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

1st Jan 2025
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do have New Year’s projects, and for 2025 I hope to spend as much time as possible working on my book The Lost Art of Logarithms. ... more ...
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025 The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It...
25th Dec 2025
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025

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

25th Dec 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It was on the fritz, and when the repair person came and replaced it, Sam asked for the old module and brought it to me as a name that ware entry. Here’s the other circuit board that...
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
3rd Nov 2021
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist

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

3rd Nov 2021
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
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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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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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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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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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Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The...
3rd Dec 2014
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Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go

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

3rd Dec 2014
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf(). The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the...
9th Apr 2026
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

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

9th Apr 2026
A bold first sentence that draws you in. A steering second sentence to set you further down the path. A third sentence that tantalizes and alludes to content to follow. Following is an initial explanatory paragraph. It serves to help back up the previous paragraphs, and start to...
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Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
8th Dec 2022
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Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System

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

8th Dec 2022
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025 This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up...
9th Jul 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025

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

9th Jul 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
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My first attempts with Unity My first attempts with Unity
1st Sep 2021
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My first attempts with Unity

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

1st Sep 2021
My first attempts with Unity
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Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
10th Jan 2023
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Safe memory reclamation for BIND

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

10th Jan 2023
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
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A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview) Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to...
16th Jul 2025
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A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)

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

16th Jul 2025
Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to peel back the abstraction and understand how code really runs at the machine level.
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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs TBD
12th Oct 2024
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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs

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

12th Oct 2024
TBD
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Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
7th Dec 2021
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Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode

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

7th Dec 2021
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
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Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
2nd Aug 2021
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Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js

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

2nd Aug 2021
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
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Rotating my PGP key
1st Aug 2025
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Rotating my PGP key

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

1st Aug 2025
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable...
28th Jun 2025
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So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine

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

28th Jun 2025
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable housing, and sometimes people ask me how they can do the same and what to expect. I decided to make a mini-zine that tries to demystify speaking up at public meetings: All text in the...
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I'm quitting Hacker News
3rd Mar 2011
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I'm quitting Hacker News

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

3rd Mar 2011
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自営業している開発者の事例 ![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVz...
25th Nov 2013
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自営業している開発者の事例

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Nov 2013
![itnomikainagoya](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaFVsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--0fd0bbea7ce4fe8a41672eaf8df9cc22c297bbb0/itnomikainagoya.jpg) [IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024 Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days...
6th Dec 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024

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

6th Dec 2024
Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days straight… hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
19th Aug 2024
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javascript weakmaps should be iterable

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Aug 2024
Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
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Git annex notes Setup New repo init git: git init init git annex: git annex init local Add S3 Remote named...
13th May 2015
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Git annex notes

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

13th May 2015
Setup New repo init git: git init init git annex: git annex init local Add S3 Remote named public-s3 git annex initremote public-s3 type=S3 encryption=none bucket=tyler.zone chunk=0 Add file to git annex git annex add [big-file] copy current directory to public-s3 remote git...
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Theory and practice
6th Nov 2012
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Theory and practice

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

6th Nov 2012
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Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
1st Nov 2023
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Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

1st Nov 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
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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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Behind the syntax: let and const variables There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
11th Jul 2018
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables

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

11th Jul 2018
There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
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How often should you send your newsletter? Consistency, timing, psychology, resources.. everything you need to make your decision on how often...
4th Mar 2024
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How often should you send your newsletter?

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

4th Mar 2024
Consistency, timing, psychology, resources.. everything you need to make your decision on how often to publish.
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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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How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
19th Sep 2023
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How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)

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

19th Sep 2023
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What happened and why?
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My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought...
16th Jan 2026
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My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months

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

16th Jan 2026
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
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Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
8th Sep 2023
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Meeting philosophy

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

8th Sep 2023
Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible. Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager). Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
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you can never go back Total disassociation, fully out your mind That Funny Feeling I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
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you can never go back

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

31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind That Funny Feeling I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system. I like the Retro Game...
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OpenClaw is my new coworker What happens when you give AI its own laptop
2nd Feb 2026
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OpenClaw is my new coworker

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

2nd Feb 2026
What happens when you give AI its own laptop
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal...
19th May 2021
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My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design

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

19th May 2021
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design 2021-05-19 Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS

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

8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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Google Reader was building the wrong future The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
1st Jul 2026
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Google Reader was building the wrong future

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

1st Jul 2026
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
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Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey...
7th Jul 2023
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Progress and Challenges: Reflections of a Working Mother in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2023
The result of [TokyoDev's International Developers in Japan Survey 2022](/insights/2022-developer-survey) revealed that the country is still struggling to close the gender gap in the workplace in the tech industry. As a Japanese woman and a mother of two children, I was very...
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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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The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
7th Jan 2020
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The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity

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

7th Jan 2020
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent. One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
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Kagi + Wolfram Building a search engine is hard.
4th Mar 2024
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Kagi + Wolfram

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

4th Mar 2024
Building a search engine is hard.
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Presentation panic I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really...
1st Feb 2021
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Presentation panic

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

1st Feb 2021
I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really aware of my anxiety and depression—I didn’t know what they were or what caused them. Because of this, I spent way too much time fixating on the symptoms, and not the cause. Both my...
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

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

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
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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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Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7th May 2024
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Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?

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

7th May 2024
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
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The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
19th Mar 2023
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The Illusion of Free Will

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

19th Mar 2023
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
10th Apr 2012
48

Must-have Windows Apps

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

10th Apr 2012
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC) IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats Media Player Classic -...
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AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
90

AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens

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

9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
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Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
20th Jul 2023
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Why most CMSes suck

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

20th Jul 2023
We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
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Myth: ARIA Has Perfect Support
13th May 2020
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Myth: ARIA Has Perfect Support

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

13th May 2020
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
27th Jan 2022
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The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite

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

27th Jan 2022
Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
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AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
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AI enhanced search

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

20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
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Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
15th Mar 2024
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Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Mar 2024
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
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What I'm up to - March 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
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What I'm up to - March 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
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Is anyone still using Emacs? Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
20th Jun 2026
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Is anyone still using Emacs?

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

20th Jun 2026
Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
5th Oct 2024
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Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

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

5th Oct 2024
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
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How to delete a tag on GitHub In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot...
16th Nov 2011
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How to delete a tag on GitHub

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

16th Nov 2011
In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot of folks will argue that you shouldn't delete tags, but there are real-world examples in which tags need to be deleted.  That said, it's both a good and a bad thing that GitHub...
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Announcing the 2025 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living...
4th Sep 2025
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Announcing the 2025 TokyoDev Developers Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2025
The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please take a few minutes to participate. All questions are optional, and it should take less than 10 minutes to complete. The survey will remain open until September...
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
20th Apr 2021
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Quantum Lorem Ipsum

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

20th Apr 2021
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon! To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
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A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
3rd May 2021
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A personal update

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

3rd May 2021
In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend

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

19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

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

29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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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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Plaid Layoffs and beyond Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my...
13th Dec 2022
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Plaid Layoffs and beyond

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

13th Dec 2022
Last week, Plaid announced laying off 20% of its workforce (260 people). Today I signed my termination agreement, which makes this week my last week as part of Plaid’s infrastructure team. Kelly Sikkema Moving forward While being laid off and having to leave a very talented...
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Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
1st Oct 2024
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Terminal colours are tricky

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

1st Oct 2024
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
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A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
8th Oct 2012
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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2012
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
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Global Game Jam 2015
5th Feb 2015
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Global Game Jam 2015

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

5th Feb 2015
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Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content...
10th Oct 2025
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Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice

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

10th Oct 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content release. The next few months are going to be technical review, copyediting and polishing, with a hopeful 1.0 release in March. Full release notes here. Three ways formally...
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Speeding up JavaScript function with AI help A new JavaScript library pretext for fast text measuring / layout popped up on social...
29th Mar 2026
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Speeding up JavaScript function with AI help

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

29th Mar 2026
A new JavaScript library pretext for fast text measuring / layout popped up on social media. Potentially interesting given its focus on speeding up text rendering in web apps and me writing web apps and liking them being fast. I looked at the code and saw a function isCJK()....
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
1

Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

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

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
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Start something small * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I...
2nd Nov 2012
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Start something small

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

2nd Nov 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The other day I was listening to Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and and I found it amazing how this book, which has now sold over 15 million copies, originally started: >...
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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price? Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other...
1st May 2012
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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

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

1st May 2012
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
31st May 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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

31st May 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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Tiny Planets
4th Jul 2018
1

Tiny Planets

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

4th Jul 2018
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value...
29th Apr 2024
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A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of

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

29th Apr 2024
An image interpolation that gives us a continuous and smooth image, where every interpolated value only depends on the four neighboring pixel values. The image becomes smooth, but sharp features remain sharp.
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Knowledge Nuggets From My Tmux.conf When I switched from GNU Screen to Tmux, I was just jazzed that Tmux had a status bar. To achieve...
12th Sep 2013
1

Knowledge Nuggets From My Tmux.conf

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

12th Sep 2013
When I switched from GNU Screen to Tmux, I was just jazzed that Tmux had a status bar. To achieve that same effect in Screen I had a cryptic 115-character hardstatus string that I copy–pasted from someplace lost to the annals of the Internet Archive. It wasn’t too long after I...
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Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
7th Apr 2025
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Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust

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

7th Apr 2025
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How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I...
13th Oct 2018
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How I implemented Oembed Proxy for GitHub

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

13th Oct 2018
Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub I’m writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets. Notion has support for code blocks but it’s not good enough for my use case. I want to make sure the code compiles so I write small programs and...
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Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the...
29th Nov 2013
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Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song

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

29th Nov 2013
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
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PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the...
9th Aug 2024
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PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2024
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the following 1 winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget Step 2: Choose a Font Totally optional, but if you want to get a specific font follow this section. to install a supported...
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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
8th Apr 2025
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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs

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

8th Apr 2025
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of...
4th Mar 2024
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Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust

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

4th Mar 2024
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA. This is cool, how does it work? I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it. Well, friends, that is what I did. I implemented...
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My ZSH (and bash) prompt Junkfood theme in git directory In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you need...
18th Dec 2012
1

My ZSH (and bash) prompt

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

18th Dec 2012
Junkfood theme in git directory In order to become a card-carrying Linux user, I feel like you need to have spent a truly astounding amount of time fiddling with your dotfiles. Me? I’ve gone way beyond the point of diminishing returns. Past the point where anyone who loves me...
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The many benefits of paying for search “Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
18th Aug 2025
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The many benefits of paying for search

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

18th Aug 2025
“Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
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Timothy Gu
1st May 2018
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Timothy Gu

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

1st May 2018
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How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
1st Aug 2015
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How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2015
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
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Why React Re-Renders In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
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Why React Re-Renders

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

16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
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Recently Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of...
4th Oct 2025
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Recently

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

4th Oct 2025
Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of articles saved on Instapaper. In general I love reading stuff from the internet but refuse to do it with a computer or a phone: I don’t want all my stuff to glow! So, this led me to an abortive...
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How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user...
28th Jun 2020
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How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 2)

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

28th Jun 2020
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In the first part, we built the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS. In this second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
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BSL is not good, it's great Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
1st Sep 2023
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BSL is not good, it's great

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

1st Sep 2023
Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source. Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
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My favourite websites from my bookmark collection Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks. how I use a static...
2nd Jun 2025
1

My favourite websites from my bookmark collection

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2025
Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks. how I use a static site to store them, how I built a personal web archive by hand, and what I learnt about web development along the way. I wanted to end this series on a lighter note, so here’s a...
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different...
1st Dec 2025
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A new system for organizing my writing and projects

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

1st Dec 2025
Keeping up with regular blog posts is a challenge. To do it, I've churned through a few different organizational systems. Sometimes I have to change them due to actual life circumstances changing; other times, due to the old one just wearing off[1]. Well, my life circumstances...
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Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having...
19th Feb 2016
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Git/Github fork-pull request-update cycle

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2016
When contributing to Open Source Projects, new contributors often run into problems of having multiple merge commits and issues with keeping the forked repo in sync. This post addresses solutions for some of the problems.
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Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
5th May 2007
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Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam

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

5th May 2007
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
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Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job. When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's...
30th Jun 2023
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Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job.

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

30th Jun 2023
When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
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Fourteen years Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
30th Nov 2024
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Fourteen years

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

30th Nov 2024
Fourteen years It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
4th Feb 2024
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile

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

4th Feb 2024
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
2nd Oct 2018
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?

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

2nd Oct 2018
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The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
22nd Oct 2023
61

The Transcantábrico Train

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

22nd Oct 2023
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
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Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost A free, open-source project for blogs
3rd Jan 2026
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Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost

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

3rd Jan 2026
A free, open-source project for blogs
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Saving a restic backup the hard way This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a...
6th Sep 2021
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Saving a restic backup the hard way

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

6th Sep 2021
This is the end of the holidays in which I spent a long time building a backup infrastructure like a responsible adult. The villain of the following story is the junk MIPS machine which held hostage most of my important data (about 1TB). Its evil plan was to build up a corrupted...
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
18th Apr 2022
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color

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

18th Apr 2022
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
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My Git alias for shipping a feature branch A handy Git alias for merging a feature branch into master and pushing it to the server.
4th Dec 2013
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My Git alias for shipping a feature branch

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

4th Dec 2013
A handy Git alias for merging a feature branch into master and pushing it to the server.
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk. I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly focus on Python frameworks and software...
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Letters to Joel Spolsky I regret to inform you…
16th Jun 2009
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Letters to Joel Spolsky

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

16th Jun 2009
I regret to inform you…
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React server components in Reason & OCaml
1st Jan 2024
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React server components in Reason & OCaml

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

1st Jan 2024
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
2nd Sep 2022
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok

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

2nd Sep 2022
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
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Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy...
14th Nov 2009
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Eight-Part Barbershop Tag In Parallel Fifths

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

14th Nov 2009
Experimenting with recording every part in a barbershop tag a perfect fifth higher to create jazzy chords.
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2024 Reflection Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
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2024 Reflection

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Dec 2024
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle. Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024 During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
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Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout

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

7th Oct 2020
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout 2020-10-07 I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
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Web push notifications: issues and limitations In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the...
17th Aug 2024
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Web push notifications: issues and limitations

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

17th Aug 2024
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs. Notification settings on macOS Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
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The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
15th Jul 2024
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The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next

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

15th Jul 2024
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
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How to run msvc cl.exe from command-line (powershell) So you’ve installed Visual Studio and you want to run the compiler cl.exe from command-line....
16th Jan 2026
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How to run msvc cl.exe from command-line (powershell)

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

16th Jan 2026
So you’ve installed Visual Studio and you want to run the compiler cl.exe from command-line. Microsoft makes it surprisingly hard. They give you a shortcut which opens a terminal window with cmd.exe setup for compilation. But I don’t want a separate window, I want to use the...
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A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
11th Mar 2024
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A Collection of Design Engineers

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

11th Mar 2024
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
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Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
3rd Mar 2022
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Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances

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

3rd Mar 2022
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
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Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
2nd Oct 2022
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Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022

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

2nd Oct 2022
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
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Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly...
2nd Apr 2024
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Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown

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

2nd Apr 2024
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly newsletter about design, typography, and creativity.
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How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy” Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it...
20th Jan 2022
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How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy”

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

20th Jan 2022
Honeycomb has a reputation for being a very engineering-driven company. No surprise there, since it was founded by two engineers and our mission involves building an engineering product for other engineers. We are never going to stop being engineering-driven in the sense that we...
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

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

8th Feb 2020
Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
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Plugin Systems "What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems...
11th Jul 2017
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Plugin Systems

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jul 2017
"What are plugins?" and other proceedings of the inaugural PyCon Comparative Plugin Systems BoF. Update: This BoF and post inspired [a talk I gave at PyGotham 2017][pygotham2017]. Within the programming world, and the Python ecosystem in particular, there are a lot of...
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a...
8th Mar 2024
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Maybe You Do Need Kubernetes

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

8th Mar 2024
Theo has this great video on Kubernetes, currently titled “You Don’t Need Kubernetes”. I’m a Kubernetes enjoyer (I even wrote a course on it, but I’m not here to argue about that. The part of the video I do want to discuss has nothing to do with k8s. It’s where Theo draws the...
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
14th Apr 2023
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Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN

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

14th Apr 2023
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
22nd Oct 2018
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

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

22nd Oct 2018
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
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Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk Read the post here.
10th Jul 2025
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Behind the Scenes: Sending Invoices Without Leaving Cakedesk

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

10th Jul 2025
Read the post here.
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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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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now...
5th Oct 2023
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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2023
The 2023 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey [is now live](https://surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US/survey/tokyodev/2023)! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it. [Last year’s survey](https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey)...
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Things to consider when choosing a community ceramics studio, partial list I've worked out of a handful of different community studios at this point, so I figured I'd share a...
10th Mar 2026
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Things to consider when choosing a community ceramics studio, partial list

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

10th Mar 2026
I've worked out of a handful of different community studios at this point, so I figured I'd share a (probably incomplete) list of you might want to consider when picking a community ceramics studio for your practice. Cost, location, value: I'm not going to comment too much on...
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A letter to John Ternus As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who...
1st Apr 2026
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A letter to John Ternus

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

1st Apr 2026
As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers. That spirit is difficult to find in the tech business today. Immense scale, soulless...
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Every Man his own API A sociotechnological trend
9th Nov 2024
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Every Man his own API

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

9th Nov 2024
A sociotechnological trend
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Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
8th Jul 2023
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Open sourcing the nginx playground

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

8th Jul 2023
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
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wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly Hey hey hey good evening! Tonight a quick note on , a new...
30th Oct 2025
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wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Oct 2025
Hey hey hey good evening! Tonight a quick note on , a new WebAssembly implementation.wastrel Wastrel compiles Wasm modules to standalone binaries. It does so by emitting C and then compiling that C. Compiling Wasm to C isn’t new: wrote back in the day and these days most...
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Print stylesheets
17th Feb 2024
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Print stylesheets

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

17th Feb 2024
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The Long Run They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever...
7th Dec 2025
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The Long Run

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

7th Dec 2025
They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever finish a marathon. If you had asked my mother, though, she would have told you it was a thousand times more likely I’d build a billion-dollar tech company than finish a marathon....
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
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Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

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

20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022

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

11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
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Gzip hates your DRY code How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
13th Mar 2017
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Gzip hates your DRY code

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

13th Mar 2017
How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
23rd May 2023
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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language

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

23rd May 2023
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
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Improving the usability and accessibility of a healthcare website by being mindful of reading level
6th Aug 2020
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Improving the usability and accessibility of a healthcare website by being mindful of reading level

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

6th Aug 2020
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Boot.dev Beat. February 2023 I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back...
1st Mar 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. February 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back writing code, writing courses and filming videos.
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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
9th Jul 2025
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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career

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

9th Jul 2025
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
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An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query
24th Apr 2019
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An Introduction to the Reduced Motion Media Query

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

24th Apr 2019
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Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
5th Jul 2025
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Are we the baddies?

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

5th Jul 2025
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
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Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
21st Dec 2022
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Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website

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

21st Dec 2022
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first...
30th May 2024
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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

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

30th May 2024
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as...
5th Apr 2025
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive

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

5th Apr 2025
The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as one of their embedded media players
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy...
9th May 2018
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Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2018
This post introduces glom, Python's missing operator for nested objects and data. If you're an easy sell, full API docs and tutorial are already available at glom.readthedocs.io. met me at PyCon, this 5-minute talk. The Spectre of Structure In the Python world, there's a...
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Upward assignment in Ruby Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
13th Jan 2023
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Upward assignment in Ruby

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2023
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x). Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
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Diving into Claude Code's Source Code Leak Engineer’s Codex is a publication about real-world software engineering.
1st Apr 2026
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Diving into Claude Code's Source Code Leak

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

1st Apr 2026
Engineer’s Codex is a publication about real-world software engineering.
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025 Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025

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

11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
25th Dec 2018
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators

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

25th Dec 2018
A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
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TypeIDs are now the default identifier format API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs
1st Jan 2026
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TypeIDs are now the default identifier format

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

1st Jan 2026
API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs
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Quick-and-dirty print debugging in Go I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase. When I’m...
8th Jan 2026
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Quick-and-dirty print debugging in Go

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2026
I’ve been writing a lot of Go in my new job, and trying to understand a new codebase. When I’m reading unfamiliar code, I like to use print debugging to follow what’s happening. I print what branches I’m in, the value of different variables, which functions are being called, and...
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What is Backend-as-a-Service? Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
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What is Backend-as-a-Service?

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

5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
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September 2020
1st Sep 2020
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September 2020

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

1st Sep 2020
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Make Beautiful Gradients Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
11th Jan 2022
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Make Beautiful Gradients

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

11th Jan 2022
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
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The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023 We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
1st Jan 2023
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The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
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George Dryden Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in...
27th Sep 2026
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George Dryden

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

27th Sep 2026
Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in my life that made an impact and helped shape my career. Outside my immediate family, one person made an outsized contribution, and I’m fairly certain that without his influence my...
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Gig Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in...
2nd Jun 2020
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Gig

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

2nd Jun 2020
Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in February earlier this year, before the pandemic had really hit in the UK. Feels like a lifetime ago now. I miss it.
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How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly...
21st Jan 2023
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How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache

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

21st Jan 2023
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly monitoring and investigating bottlenecks for our SaaS helpdesk webapp is my favorite thing ever. And I'm proud to say that with thousands of clients, even some really big ones, our app's...
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools

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

27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
2nd Feb 2023
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech

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

2nd Feb 2023
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
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What I'm up to - June 2026 My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jun 2026
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What I'm up to - June 2026

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

1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
13th Oct 2019
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SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation

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

13th Oct 2019
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
13th Sep 2021
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Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

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

13th Sep 2021
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
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Man cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
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Man cereal

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

3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
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Announcing Emoji 1.0
10th Feb 2014
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Announcing Emoji 1.0

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

10th Feb 2014
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Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
1st May 2021
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Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2021
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
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What if typing on phones was fast?
27th Nov 2024
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What if typing on phones was fast?

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Nov 2024
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Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
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Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS. Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them. I looked for an existing solution that has the...
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Web standards are just "minor details" A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He...
2nd Jul 2007
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Web standards are just "minor details"

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

2nd Jul 2007
A friend of mine recently graduated and spread his wings by venturing into the corporate world. He obtained a position as a junior project manager for a web consulting firm in Atlanta. Their work is very professional and their designs are great, but it was immediately evident...
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Learning Gears > Translations welcome! (Português)
19th Apr 2019
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Learning Gears

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

19th Apr 2019
> Translations welcome! (Português)
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Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
15th Nov 2023
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Build a career path by multiplying your value

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Nov 2023
Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
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Adventures in pixel space
30th Mar 2025
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Adventures in pixel space

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30th Mar 2025
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Universal domain types
26th Feb 2024
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Universal domain types

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26th Feb 2024
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So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
17th May 2021
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So you think you know everything about React refs

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

17th May 2021
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
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Signifier flotation devices
27th Sep 2025
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Signifier flotation devices

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27th Sep 2025
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On life as an independent contractor right now Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
1st Nov 2024
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On life as an independent contractor right now

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

1st Nov 2024
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here. As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
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New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies...
8th May 2023
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New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years

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

8th May 2023
Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ago. Here’s the video, as...
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
15th Jul 2024
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset

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

15th Jul 2024
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
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Messing with bots Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
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Messing with bots

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

13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

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22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
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Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
18th Apr 2022
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Why I left Instagram

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

18th Apr 2022
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
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Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
21st Dec 2023
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Negotiable Abstractions

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

21st Dec 2023
2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
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Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple...
5th Oct 2018
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Five Tricks for Debug-Logging in JavaScript

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

5th Oct 2018
Cheer up, today is a quick tip day. No rants, no motivation, no existentialism — just a few simple tricks you can use right now. We'll be talking about console.log and friends for debugging javascript, mostly in the browser. If you don't use devtools debugger — try it, but I'm...
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Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
6th Nov 2020
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Naked Emperors in Tech

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

6th Nov 2020
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
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The Holy Grail of IE Testing I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This...
12th Aug 2012
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The Holy Grail of IE Testing

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

12th Aug 2012
I have finally discovered a way to test old versions of Internet Explorer that doesn’t suck. This setup allows you to test authentic versions of IE6, IE7, and IE8 without the need to boot up virtual machines. It also allows you to have a debug bar in each of these versions so...
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Email tracking is now off by default Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
1st Mar 2021
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Email tracking is now off by default

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

1st Mar 2021
Buttondown is turning off analytics by default for all new users
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Progress on the Block Protocol Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
19th Dec 2022
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Progress on the Block Protocol

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

19th Dec 2022
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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