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Haunt 0.3.0 released Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many...
19th Feb 2024
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Haunt 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Feb 2024
Haunt version 0.3.0 has been released! It’s been just over 2 years since the last release, and many fixes and improvements have been accumulated so this is long overdue! About Haunt Haunt is a static site generator that uses the Guile Scheme as its configuration language. It...
25th Oct 2021
Summit 010 Berlin Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
6th Jun 2022
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Summit 010 Berlin

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

6th Jun 2022
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
Managing your drafts through the API Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
1st Jul 2019
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Managing your drafts through the API

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

1st Jul 2019
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
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...
Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article) When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is...
4th Jun 2024
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Skip SDKs in Simple Integrations (article)

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

4th Jun 2024
When dealing with APIs, SDKs can lead to cognitive overhead and complexity. Make sure the SDK is worth the trade-offs.
My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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

5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to...
10th Jul 2024
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Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad

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

10th Jul 2024
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM....
Always running I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other...
6th Apr 2025
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Always running

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2025
I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...
2nd Dec 2009
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
19th Nov 2024
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If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems

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

19th Nov 2024
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
Redecorating my bedroom Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
11th May 2023
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Redecorating my bedroom

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th May 2023
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
Source Code for Life v0.1 Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
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Source Code for Life v0.1

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

1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Kagi search features *New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
31st May 2022
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Kagi search features

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

31st May 2022
*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
What I'm up to - March 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Mar 2025
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What I'm up to - March 2025

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

1st Mar 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - I published "Why Ruby on Rails still matters", and it went a little viral and was re...
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
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Humanity's Last Exam

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

20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face Sign up now - in person space is limited
18th Mar 2023
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Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face

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

18th Mar 2023
Sign up now - in person space is limited
No hassle detected! The importance of tools
9th Aug 2024
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No hassle detected!

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

9th Aug 2024
The importance of tools
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
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Taking web search through the last mile

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

1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
11th Jul 2022
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Statements Vs. Expressions

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

11th Jul 2022
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
NixOS generators Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
1st Jun 2026
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NixOS generators

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

1st Jun 2026
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
18th Jul 2022
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#32 almost a proper close button

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jul 2022
Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
12th Oct 2022
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2022
The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
15th Aug 2022
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Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected

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

15th Aug 2022
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
16th Mar 2019
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Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme

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

16th Mar 2019
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
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What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?

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

18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
What I'm up to - March 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st Mar 2024
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What I'm up to - March 2024

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

1st Mar 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
18th Oct 2008
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A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"

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

18th Oct 2008
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024 The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete!...
7th Oct 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024

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

7th Oct 2024
The “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the...
Should testers write unit tests? This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will...
20th Aug 2026
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Should testers write unit tests?

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

20th Aug 2026
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I recommend...
Uncensored Models I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
15th May 2023
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Uncensored Models

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2023
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
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...
What I'm up to - February 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
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What I'm up to - February 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
12th Jul 2026
Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
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Being a minor AI public figure

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

3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHnNnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Managing Gigabytes of Images with git-annex Earlier this year, I hit GitLab's 10GB storage limit with one of my git repositories. I'm writing a...
13th Mar 2024
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Managing Gigabytes of Images with git-annex

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

13th Mar 2024
Earlier this year, I hit GitLab's 10GB storage limit with one of my git repositories. I'm writing a family blog where I document our various trips and activities, hoping that in 20 years, it will be a great memento (like a photo album combined with a journal in a digital form,...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed

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

29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
Introducing FRCTNL With the recent tech downturn, there's been a clear shift. Instead of the previous...
7th Sep 2023
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Introducing FRCTNL

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

7th Sep 2023
With the recent tech downturn, there's been a clear shift. Instead of the previous "growth-at-all-costs" model, companies are now emphasizing efficiency. This is evident in hiring, as firms now seek experienced contributors who can hit the ground running with minimal management...
Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
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Moving to Node.js

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

6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
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
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
11th Mar 2023
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Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?

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

11th Mar 2023
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the...
2nd Apr 2020
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Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package

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

2nd Apr 2020
time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library! The problem is that the time.Time{} struct uses more than 24 bytes of memory under most conditions. Go-TinyTime solves this problem by restricting the available dates to...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
13th Aug 2020
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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)

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

13th Aug 2020
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
21st Dec 2016
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Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult

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

21st Dec 2016
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
10th Mar 2021
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too many birthdays

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

10th Mar 2021
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance...
1st Dec 2023
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Basecamp code runs 18% faster with YJIT

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

1st Dec 2023
Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT. In this post I’ll share our setup, and the performance improvements we achieved. Our setup Basecamp is currently running Ruby 3.3.0-preview3 and Rails Edge (master branch). We configure YJIT in our servers via RUBYOPT=--yjit-disable...
Browser font rendering inconsistencies 22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different...
22nd Jun 2020
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Browser font rendering inconsistencies

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

22nd Jun 2020
22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different browsers against my personal website when I opened up Safari and noticed how drastically different the title of my page was rendering. It was extremely bold in Safari compared to...
I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
17th Sep 2024
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I am tired of AI

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

17th Sep 2024
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
24th Oct 2024
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting

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

24th Oct 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
The Perils of Hydration A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug....
2nd Mar 2020
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The Perils of Hydration

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

2nd Mar 2020
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
Python Versions Management With pyenv Using the latest version of Python is always a good idea. First of all - you get the new features...
3rd Feb 2021
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Python Versions Management With pyenv

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

3rd Feb 2021
Using the latest version of Python is always a good idea. First of all - you get the new features like the f-strings (Python 3.6), ordered dictionaries (officially guaranteed from Python 3.7, but already present in Python 3.6), or the union operator (Python 3.9). But even if you...
Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the...
2nd Mar 2024
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Cookie Based Auth for Django and NextJS

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2024
If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
13th Feb 2025
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

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

13th Feb 2025
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like...
14th Jul 2025
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Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

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

14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation. RSS has its own place in...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
10th Oct 2017
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox

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

10th Oct 2017
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven’t seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
Better with Star Wars, baking is Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather...
16th Jul 2010
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Better with Star Wars, baking is

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

16th Jul 2010
Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather insanely high quality cookie cutters: The set of four includes a Yoda face and helmets from each of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a stormtrooper. I knew that if I ever got my hands on...
Czech localization Czech localization
1st Oct 2025
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Czech localization

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

1st Oct 2025
Czech localization
Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex <![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected...
1st Mar 2026
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Rearranging the File Browser menu for Insphex

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

1st Mar 2026
<![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected files. The initial implementation called the public API for adding commands at the top level of the menu. To later move the item to the See sumbenu that groups various file...
Code Reviews Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post...
14th Jan 2024
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Code Reviews

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2024
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
3rd May 2023
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience

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

3rd May 2023
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
My portable ergonomic setup In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
3rd Jun 2024
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My portable ergonomic setup

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

3rd Jun 2024
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids. That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally. One guaranteed trigger...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
2nd Jan 2023
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Measuring an engineering organization.

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

2nd Jan 2023
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance,...
6th Jan 2025
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Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

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

6th Jan 2025
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit. I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in. There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults. Here are a few...
Dynamic Slots Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
19th Jul 2023
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Dynamic Slots

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

19th Jul 2023
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
27th May 2016
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Punctuated Excitement

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

27th May 2016
Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
7th Jun 2021
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CSS Slope Graphs

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

7th Jun 2021
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
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Amiga Systems Programming in 2023

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

30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce...
18th Mar 2025
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elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now

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

18th Mar 2025
It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce another round of updates, including a fresh new download. We’ve been hard at work this winter addressing issues that you reported and we’ve added a couple new creature comforts along...
The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
22nd Dec 2009
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The difference between web designers and web developers

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

22nd Dec 2009
If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
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Leaving Google

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

27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed) Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The...
4th Feb 2020
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How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)

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

4th Feb 2020
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The problem many devs run into is that React Native only supports caching images on IOS out of the box.
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
11th Apr 2023
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Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2023
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss 60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were...
13th Nov 2023
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How one line of code caused a $60 million loss

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

13th Nov 2023
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
Bright Barley Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
22nd Apr 2022
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Bright Barley

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

22nd Apr 2022
Designed by ALLGOOD, Leeds.
Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
2nd Mar 2020
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Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages

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

2nd Mar 2020
I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
18th Aug 2026
My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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

5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
27th Aug 2013
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8th Mar 2022
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Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing

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

8th Mar 2022
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Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
8th Mar 2021
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Complex numbers and conformal mapping

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

8th Mar 2021
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
2nd Jun 2025
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The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates

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

2nd Jun 2025
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
Rethinking reactivity **Nue JS** is a tiny, 2.1kb min-brotlied library for building user interfaces. It's an alternative...
2nd Oct 2023
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Rethinking reactivity

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

2nd Oct 2023
**Nue JS** is a tiny, 2.1kb min-brotlied library for building user interfaces. It's an alternative to frameworks like *Vue*, *React*, and *Svelte* — and it's the central piece of the [Nue ecosystem](/), which is a ridiculously easier alternative to *Next.js* and *Astro*
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
12th Jun 2020
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Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept

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

12th Jun 2020
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
Hiring as an incomplete information game Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.
18th Oct 2025
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Hiring as an incomplete information game

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

18th Oct 2025
Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat it as such.
The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about...
1st Nov 2024
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The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade

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

1st Nov 2024
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years. In 2019, when I was still at Microsoft, I had been working with Greg Whitworth to start evangelizing the work that was being planned for <select>, as well as the Open...
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
1st Aug 2019
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Learn ESLint concepts, not rules

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

1st Aug 2019
What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
1st Aug 2025
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
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offer up is the tinder of marketplaces

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

24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
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...
1st May 2012
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
10th Oct 2013
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
The Importance of Learning CSS I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
3rd Mar 2021
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The Importance of Learning CSS

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

3rd Mar 2021
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in...
15th Jul 2024
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Common logical fallacies surrounding capitalism

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

15th Jul 2024
We live in an age of extreme abundance compared to our ancestors. This fact isn’t often reflected in Western media or online discourse. Indeed, there is a growing sentiment that ‘the system isn’t working’, ‘the system is rigged’,  and that ‘
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
30th May 2021
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Overkill Objects for Everyday Life

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

30th May 2021
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
How to create microfrontends with Web Components in React We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams...
7th Jan 2021
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How to create microfrontends with Web Components in React

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

7th Jan 2021
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA. It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python The standard Mac filesystem, APFS, has a feature called space-saving clones. This allows you to...
3rd Aug 2025
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Create space-saving clones on macOS with Python

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2025
The standard Mac filesystem, APFS, has a feature called space-saving clones. This allows you to create multiple copies of a file without using additional disk space – the filesystem only stores a single copy of the data. Although cloned files share data, they’re independent – you...
The Caretakers If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
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The Caretakers

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

8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back. That’s an upload to...
Andrej Karpathy's AI Autoresearch found a 3-year-old bug in PostHog's query engine (and improved... A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow...
1st Jun 2026
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A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow queries from production, and let it run overnight…
AGI, agents, and timelines AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
6th Feb 2025
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AGI, agents, and timelines

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

6th Feb 2025
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines. The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
25th Jun 2021
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Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit

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

25th Jun 2021
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
12th Feb 2021
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[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations

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

12th Feb 2021
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
Add metadata to your RSS feeds Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
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Add metadata to your RSS feeds

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

1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
"Rules" that terminal programs follow Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination...
12th Dec 2024
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow

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

12th Dec 2024
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat) The first three (your...
Building Custom React Hooks Illustrated notes on building custom React hooks
2nd Nov 2019
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Building Custom React Hooks

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

2nd Nov 2019
Illustrated notes on building custom React hooks
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
5th Jul 2022
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Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System

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

5th Jul 2022
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
26th Nov 2023
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Using fewer parts

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

26th Nov 2023
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees),...
1st May 2025
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

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

1st May 2025
How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our audacious vision. While we had had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped; we needed...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
19th Jan 2019
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The Phoenix project — Book Notes

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2019
Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
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Who gets to do strategy?

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

6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024 ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024

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

5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
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...
The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the...
2nd Nov 2021
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas

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

2nd Nov 2021
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the most important part of any product-focused organization. I think there is a misconception in the software industry that product managers have a good sense of “what users want”,...
Letting Claude Teach Me Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where...
4th May 2026
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Letting Claude Teach Me

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

4th May 2026
Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where I’m not learning as much as I used to. That feels a bit crummy. Fairly often, Claude writes code I don’t fully understand. For example: I know enough TypeScript to be dangerous,...
Mission Control — Web You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
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Mission Control — Web

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

9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web. Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
19th Sep 2023
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Either your estimates suck or your job does

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

19th Sep 2023
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
Bulletproof Components Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
8th Dec 2021
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Bulletproof Components

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

8th Dec 2021
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
Subtraction Is Functionally Complete To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can...
28th Sep 2023
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Subtraction Is Functionally Complete

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

28th Sep 2023
To be precise, IEEE-754 floating point subtraction is functionally complete. That means you can construct any binary circuit using nothing but floating point subtraction. To see how, we must start at the bottom. I quote the IEEE 754-2019 standard, section 6.3: 6.3 The sign...
Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
13th Sep 2022
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Liftmaster 87504-267

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

13th Sep 2022
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current...
6th Aug 2025
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We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles

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

6th Aug 2025
Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa. So...
Procrastinate for Success! Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
7th Jul 2024
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Procrastinate for Success!

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

7th Jul 2024
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
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What I'm up to - December 2025

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

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data

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

5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

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

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts A bit of a rant about Apple
25th Jan 2023
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The absolute audacity of Apple Podcasts

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

25th Jan 2023
A bit of a rant about Apple
1st May 2013
Simply explained: how does GPT work? By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
4th Mar 2023
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Simply explained: how does GPT work?

from Confused bit [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2023
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook <![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space...
23rd Nov 2024
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Samantha Cristoforetti's Logbook

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

23rd Nov 2024
<![CDATA[Ten years ago today my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti began her first space flight. On November 23, 2014 she was launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a mission to the International Space Station. I had the privilege of helping Samantha with a public...
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
13th Nov 2019
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Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century

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

13th Nov 2019
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
18th May 2023
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What are passkeys?

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

18th May 2023
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
1st Aug 2021
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West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike

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

1st Aug 2021
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
Name that Ware, October 2024 The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
30th Oct 2024
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Name that Ware, October 2024

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

30th Oct 2024
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
11th Dec 2022
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic

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

11th Dec 2022
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
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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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.
Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders Hello! Right now I’m back to working on neural networks with sketches of faces. current goal:...
1st Dec 2020
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Day 17: trying to wrap my head around autoencoders

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2020
Hello! Right now I’m back to working on neural networks with sketches of faces. current goal: cluster the faces somehow As a starting point, I thought it’d be fun to, instead of generating faces, get the neural network to do some unsupervised clustering of the faces! The idea...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
2nd Oct 2024
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Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance

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

2nd Oct 2024
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
31st Dec 2022
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new year, same plan

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

31st Dec 2022
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
What I'm up to - February 2026 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2026
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What I'm up to - February 2026

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

1st Feb 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Busy month at Chroma - including launching a case study with Mintlify who recently ...
The RP2350 is too fast I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the...
15th May 2026
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The RP2350 is too fast

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

15th May 2026
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the ST7796 one. To be more specific, displaying stuff with the first display worked flawlessly, while the ST7796 would display a single frame correctly, and then glitch. Depending on the...
notes from Naval (2025) someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting...
6th Jul 2025
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notes from Naval (2025)

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

6th Jul 2025
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to Market Yourself Without Being A Celebrity and "Play Long Term Games with Long Term People". HTGR also...
Hello world... 8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However,...
8th Jul 2019
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Hello world...

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

8th Jul 2019
8 July 2019 Hello world! I've been blogging for what seems like a very very very long time. However, all that blogging over the years has been focused on fashion, lifestyle and travel over on another URL and lately, I've been wanting to dig into more design and front-end focused...
19th Jan 2026
Chickadee 0.5.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
8th Apr 2020
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Chickadee 0.5.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in...
SQLite Slaps why SQLite is cracked
18th Jun 2024
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SQLite Slaps

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2024
why SQLite is cracked
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
17th May 2008
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Generate random passwords in PHP

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

17th May 2008
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
4th Jun 2024
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Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!

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

4th Jun 2024
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

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

7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
31st Jul 2015
Incredible Vitest Defaults (article) Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results,...
2nd Sep 2025
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Incredible Vitest Defaults (article)

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

2nd Sep 2025
Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results, letting you write reliable tests with less effort.
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
8th Aug 2023
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Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2023
There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
11th Apr 2024
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Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ

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

11th Apr 2024
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
3rd Dec 2013
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The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Dec 2013
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
9th Apr 2021
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

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

9th Apr 2021
A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
liteparser: a fast, embeddable SQLite parser A complete SQLite parser you can embed anywhere.
11th Mar 2026
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liteparser: a fast, embeddable SQLite parser

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2026
A complete SQLite parser you can embed anywhere.
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
9th Nov 2020
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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

9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element....
18th Aug 2025
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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

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

18th Aug 2025
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can...
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
10th Apr 2025
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Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

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

10th Apr 2025
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
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JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript

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

10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
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.
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
28th Aug 2024
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8BitDo Game Controllers

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

28th Aug 2024
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
1st Jul 2022
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Fundraising for SaaS Startups

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2022
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
What I'm up to - May 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st May 2024
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What I'm up to - May 2024

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

1st May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the "Shenanigans" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...
America’s Future It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America...
27th Oct 2024
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America’s Future

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

27th Oct 2024
It seems this is a place where people are not capable of thinking rationally. Remember: If America is not in decline, I want to believe America is not in decline. If America is in decline, I want to believe America is in decline. So let’s ask, what does the future look like for...
Building and launching my first iPhone app (And doing it the hard way.)
29th Jun 2019
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Building and launching my first iPhone app

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

29th Jun 2019
(And doing it the hard way.)
Alchemy Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways,...
9th Nov 2025
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Alchemy

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

9th Nov 2025
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
A Thousand Tiny Optimisations This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM...
8th Jun 2025
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A Thousand Tiny Optimisations

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

8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
What you can do in a decade I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
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What you can do in a decade

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

22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
27th Jan 2025
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Container Queries Unleashed

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

27th Jan 2025
Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
2nd Dec 2019
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My experience as a remote worker

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

2nd Dec 2019
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Early Stage Company Offsites > this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
6th Oct 2024
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Early Stage Company Offsites

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

6th Oct 2024
> this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
1st Jun 2022
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In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo

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

1st Jun 2022
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
Abstract Syntax Trees by example Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
5th Jan 2021
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Abstract Syntax Trees by example

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2021
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

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

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Our own agents with their own tools. Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading...
4th Feb 2025
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Our own agents with their own tools.

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

4th Feb 2025
Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of...
Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
3rd Jun 2026
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Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable

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

3rd Jun 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
Interactive Graphical Arithmetic When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a...
8th Apr 2024
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Interactive Graphical Arithmetic

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

8th Apr 2024
When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a calculator app. On the rare occasions when the power is out and the batteries have run down, we might need to resort to doing the calculation by hand. In either case, we’re...
Recently Listening Die In Love by Greet Death Via David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been...
3rd Feb 2026
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Recently

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

3rd Feb 2026
Listening Die In Love by Greet Death Via David Crespo, I got into Greet Death, a band that's been hustling since 2011. It's great in a simultaneously familiar and innovative way. The album has a great amount of variety: Small Town Cemetery is a really effective quiet, acoustic...
Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
10th Jun 2019
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Apple is Listening

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

10th Jun 2019
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online...
17th May 2025
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The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation

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

17th May 2025
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms. Although the book is mostly focused on the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, I believe that even histories of science and...
Introducing PageRoast Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects...
11th Mar 2021
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Introducing PageRoast

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

11th Mar 2021
Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
Writing terrible code The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going...
27th Feb 2025
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Writing terrible code

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

27th Feb 2025
The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
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