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Writing - Andreas...
Grit Multipliers People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder....
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People sometimes argue that you’re more likely to build a successful business as a solo founder. The argument goes that without co-founders, you get faster decision making, and since speed is one of most important advantages you have, you get a better shot at iterating...
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system
11 months ago
Remains of the Day
Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred...
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"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single...
Joel Gascoigne
Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
over a year ago
HTMHell
Reading the meter The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form...
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The <meter> element is a little known and rarely used semantic element. It's a non-interactive form element that renders as a partially filled horizontal bar. Browsers provide user-agent styles, but the <meter> element can also be styled. <meter min="10" max="200"...
Alex MacCaw
Lifestyle business FAQ I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger...
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over a year ago
I love lifestyle businesses. I've started a couple (one failed, one sold), before founding a larger business. Lifestyle businesses are intriguing to people, they sound too good to be true but the reality is they are imminently doable. Since I get quite a lot of questions...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing "I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
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"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live! In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
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In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out! This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
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We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
Yale e360
Sometimes, I can't talk Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we...
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Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we have to interact with other people. A lot of that communication happens through language, especially spoken and signed language. For many of us, this language happens so freely and...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I build things My process for starting new projects
8 months ago
A Day In The Life...
A comprehensive list of failed projects A comprehensive list of failed projects
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
4 Things I Learned from Mastering Mongoose.js A quick book review of the new Mongoose.js book from Val Karpov
over a year ago
Making software...
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn't the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
HTMHell
Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where...
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by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user’s native one. This situation is common for users navigating government portals or local service providers in a country...
Blog - Bitfield...
Bitfield Institute of Technology The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school that offers remote...
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11 months ago
The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school that offers remote training and certifications in Go development to students worldwide.
Blog of Simple...
How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
5 months ago
Liz Denys
Some things aren't still intended to last forever, like KitchenAid stand mixers Meet Bernice: Bernice is a Hobart-motored thirty-two and a half year old KitchenAid stand mixer. My...
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Meet Bernice: Bernice is a Hobart-motored thirty-two and a half year old KitchenAid stand mixer. My grandma named her. She's a slightly green lemon chiffon color reminiscent of the end of the 70's with which, despite all odds, I've become quite enamored. She's even older than...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
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Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
alexwlchan
Changing the bulb in a Meridian Lighting CIR100B ceiling light I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which...
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I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which doesn’t work. I’ve tried taking it apart a couple of times to replace the bulb, but to no avail. Although it’s a simple cylinder with only a black base and a clear cover, I couldn’t...
blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Dev tool marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes...
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Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers. There are plenty of…
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
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over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
Irrational...
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering. There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen...
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There are so many stories of hiring a new executive who comes in and wreaks havoc. I’ve seen engineering leaders start with a giant, doomed migration, marketing leaders who accelerate expenses until they necessitate a round of layoffs, and a number of executives fired in their...
Steve Klabnik
Productivity Waves
over a year ago
The Changelog
Joyful is the Dark “Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that...
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“Joyful is the dark   coolness of the tomb, waiting for the wonder   of the morning. Never was that midnight   touched by dread and gloom; darkness was the cradle   of the dawning.” – Brian Wren Most of us are not personally experiencing symptoms of a pandemic virus, but with all...
bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
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Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
David Heinemeier...
The benefit of seniority ought to be bandwidth Juniors are judged on effort, seniors are judged on outcomes. That’s a common and useful heuristic...
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Juniors are judged on effort, seniors are judged on outcomes. That’s a common and useful heuristic for evaluating employees. It neatly separates productivity from effectiveness, and places a premium on the latter. But the biggest benefit of this distinction ought to be of the...
Grant Slatton
Bureaulogy The study of bureaucracy
6 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
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The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
REST Endpoint + CRUD with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB in 2 minutes A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD...
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A lightning fast overview of everything you need to know to set up a REST endpoint with full CRUD capability with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and AWS Amplify in 2 minutes.
Epic Web Dev
Text and Image Clipping Effects (tip)
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
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over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
macwright.com
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
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I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Regression Drawing lines among dots and more!
over a year ago
Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
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After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python We are due for our next live session.
8 months ago
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
a year ago
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Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
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Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
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Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 006: Provenance for science papers, local-first access control In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
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In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
A Day In The Life...
From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
PlayCanvas: an easy, open source WebGL game engine Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive...
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Last week I wrote about faster JavaScript animations using VelocityJS. As if that wasn't impressive enough, today I'm giving you a dose of HTML5 and WebGL greatness. The project is called PlayCanvas, and it dubs itself an open source game engine that brings fun to the...
Engineer’s Codex
A simple software engineering productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These...
a year ago
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A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.
David Heinemeier...
Bad Therapy This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So...
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This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So many kids with a diagnosis of one sort or another, so much monitoring of children's every move, so much anxiety over the most trivial things, like the sugar content of a cupcake....
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza: I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
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In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […] The post Managing difficult software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
9 months ago
Yale e360
Three days of Advent of Code in Hurl Every year I do some of Advent of Code. One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year I do some of Advent of Code. One year I completed it, but usually I just do some of it as a social thing with friends and then taper off as interest wanes. This year, I did three days of it, and stopped because I really truly did not want to write more solutions in the...
MMapped blog
Three degrees of validity
2 months ago
Chris Nicholas
How to write exceptional documentation Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
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Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
Ink & Switch
01 · A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what...
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In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what if a single spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at once**?
Joel Gascoigne
What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the things I enjoy most about building a company is to focus on culture, and to think about how we can create a team which is a joy to be part of. A large part of this is
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook (Part 1) This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1...
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over a year ago
This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook. In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that. Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
Florian Bellmann |...
Processes don't create ownership, people do Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
a year ago
David Crawshaw
2014-01-17 "pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
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"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
Eric Bailey
Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Path to Developer Relations and Thoughts on the Future of DevRel Alex Lakatos interviewed me for the Devrel Advent calendar he put together
over a year ago
Yale e360
Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this...
a year ago
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One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning: Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain? On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
Charles Chen
Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
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When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
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over a year ago
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...
The Changelog
How Gapped is Your Air? Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control...
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Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control system for a municipal water-treatment plant should never have data come in or out Or, a variant of the industrial control system: it should only permit telemetry and monitoring data...
Irrational...
Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
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3 months ago
In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
TokyoDev
Japanese Language Proficiency, Job Requirements, and You Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be...
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11 months ago
Many people wanting to work in Japan find themselves stymied by language requirements that can be vague and confusing, as there is no single, clear-cut system used in Japan to define foreigners’ language proficiencies. There are a few systems commonly used to measure language...
Joel Gascoigne
The dream forms over time In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great...
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In my recent travels around Asia [http://instagram.com/joelgascoigne], I’ve had the great opportunity to meet a lot of local founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. One of the things that seems to come up many times is that people will ask me “what triggered you to become...
Eric Bailey
I doubled-down on RSS Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the...
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over a year ago
Twitter is currently a lot like one of those spiral coin drop wishing wells you encounter at the mall. The quarter that is its imminent demise is revolving faster and faster and will probably drop out of sight sooner than later. Part of mourning the communities I once had there...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products) I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my...
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I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog…
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024 I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
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I didn’t write much this year. The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing. The backlog is brimming, however. Targets for 2024 ❌ Publish at least 40 posts 11 ❌ Reach at least 200k readers Don’t have an...
Ralph Ammer
Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
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Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if Stripe is the next Google? Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Yale e360
Avoid multitasking to write better code Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
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over a year ago
Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks? In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
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This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Flow State and Surfing Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity, and surfing. At one point (~24:30) Johnson talks about his love for surfing and the beautiful flow state it puts him in: Sometimes I’ll see a friend riding a wave while I’m...
ntietz.com blog -...
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An...
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We should always be supporting each other, but it feels particularly important right now. An election just finished in the US, which means that half the country lost and has to face the coming changes. In particular, this is a scary time for many folks who have been targets in...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
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We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
ntietz.com blog -...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
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After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components? This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
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over a year ago
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it. The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Amazing Athletes of the 21st Century Read more about RSS Club. Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip this one. I’m not a rabid sports fan. I don’t have a team, though I do have teams I hate (or rather, like to hate on). But I do enjoy following sports. I’ve...
Yale e360
Why Rust's learning curve seems harsh, and ideas to reduce it I've been thinking about the learning curve for Rust lately, and why it feels so hard to learn. I...
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over a year ago
I've been thinking about the learning curve for Rust lately, and why it feels so hard to learn. I think the reason is because the complexity is all front-loaded, and the resources generally don't actively reduce that front-loading1. There are two well-trod paths for learning...
Josh Comeau's blog
Hands-Free Coding Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately,...
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Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox If you fit one of these criteria:
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 001: On Embark and Lude Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish granted! In this first dispatch, we want to share some of our recent work on Malleable Software with Embark, talk a bit about our Researchers-in-Residence program, and introduce you to...
Eric Bailey
Where do you start measuring distance from when the origin is the bottom of a block of text? To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team...
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To frame this post, I’d like to share a tweet by Irina Bednova: Apparently everyone in our team interpreted "lgtm" in Github reviews differently. The interpretation were: - Lets get this merged - Looks good to me - Legitimate — Irina Bednova (@jafrog) February 1, 2019 This is...
Epic Web Dev
Hamburger Menu Animation (tip) Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn how to create an engaging hamburger menu animation with Tailwind CSS, improving user experience and adding a touch of fun flair.
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
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On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies. A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
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Supersets like TypeScript enhance languages with benefits like error detection, code consistency, scalability, and improved tooling for devs.
A Beautiful Site
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...
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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...
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
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In-App Purchase Rules A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s...
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A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app. Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
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Full Stack Components There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to...
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There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to share it with you all.
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Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev _Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
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Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
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Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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The best way to tell a website your age There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
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There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online. Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
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PostHog Launch Week I: A Universe of New Features PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B...
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PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B ahead of schedule Became one of YC's top-valued…
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I Have To Fix Broken Things Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
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Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me. After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge" in Rust
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The Changelog
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
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I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
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Searching for The Early Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
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I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
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Super Easy Automated Scraping with AWS Amplify A tutorial on data scraping with AWS Amplify
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Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a...
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Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
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Zone of Genius Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a...
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Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a micro level, aligning yourself with the right role is also challenging. What should you delegate? Where should you focus your efforts? I've found the Zone of Genius framework to
MMapped blog
Tutorial: stable-structures
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Transposing tensor files
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Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
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October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
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Forced to upgrade On finally having to upgrade my iPhone
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Understanding Layout Algorithms As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
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As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
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I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
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Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
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Array 1.0.8 Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be...
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Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be doing weekly tagged releases from now on so the…
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Content marketing strategy for devtool companies - How we do it at PostHog Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to...
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Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
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Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that...
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I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381...
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A story about pivots PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year,...
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PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
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Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Check…
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HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
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In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
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Invisible success I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are...
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I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because I think we went about making it the right way: Identifying an...
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The plan-execute pattern
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A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
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Oct 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
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Contraption Co.
Innovation versus distribution The race between startups and incumbents
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libc delenda est Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if...
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Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
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CJEU: cookie-based analytics collects sensitive data
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Introducing the rails-api project
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A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
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This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
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Professional Web Forms (workshop) The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that...
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The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
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over a year ago
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session. Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense. This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB. What is...
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Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
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Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
A Smart Bear
How much of success is luck? "You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours,...
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"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
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The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote...
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This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
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over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Yale e360
What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust? I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with...
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over a year ago
I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers. Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory. The difference between...
Steve Klabnik
A few notes on Foucault
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A Smart Bear
Why it's nice to compete against a large, profitable company Competing against big firms? Their revenue streams are their Achilles heel. Learn how smaller...
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the singularity is...
Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
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You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
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Stuff I learned at Carta. Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years....
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Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two...
sancho.dev
query-json: jq written in Reason
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Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
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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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Hands-on graphics without X11 A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
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Serving the country In 1940, President Roosevelt tapped William S. Knudsen to run the government's production of...
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In 1940, President Roosevelt tapped William S. Knudsen to run the government's production of military equipment. Knudsen had spent a pivotal decade at Ford during the mass-production revolution, and was president of General Motors, when he was drafted as a civilian into service...
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Please put units in names
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Quentin Santos
On-Die ECC This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory....
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This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory. So, I looked around for DDR5 ECC memory. Surprisingly, DDR5 memory sticks that mentioned ECC was not significantly more expensive than other DDR5 memory sticks. Sometimes, they were...
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On The Importance of 15-5 Updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
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We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
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Our new objective: Nail Self Serve The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate...
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The longer your strategy gets, the more useless it becomes. That's why, at PostHog, we communicate strategy as 'Nail X', where X is the thing we need…
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Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
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I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP) A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
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A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
Maggie Appleton
Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks How to build a digital garden without touching code
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Yale e360
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
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Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
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Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Ralph Ammer
Show me! Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean?...
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Why do we like images? Because they help us understand things.  But what does that mean? Understanding Well, the world is complicated. And in order to make good decisions we need to know what is going on. Language can help us structure the world. So one way to understand things...
Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
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Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
Coding Horror
Thunderbolting Your Video Card When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an...
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When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
Steve Klabnik
redis-namespace 1.3.1 security release
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Irrational...
Navigating Private Equity ownership. In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to...
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In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to make in 2024 when zero-interest rate policy is only a fond memory. Instead, we’re seeing a number of companies designed for rapid expansion learning to adapt to a world that...
Tinloof - Blog
Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await) JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
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JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
ntietz.com blog -...
Can I ethically use LLMs? The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an...
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The title is not a rhetorical question, and I'm not going to bury an answer. I don't have an answer. This post is my exploration of the question, and why I think it is a question1. Important things up front: what's my relationship with LLMs today? I don't use any LLMs regularly....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s...
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I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website,...
Steve Klabnik
ActiveRecord considered harmful
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
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I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
Blog of Simple...
Searching for GA4 Alternatives? Top 10 Reliable Options for Google Analyticss
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Yale e360
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
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Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
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Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
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Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Cognitive...
Meet Samantha https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b https://h...
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https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-13b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-33b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/samantha-falcon-7b https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehartford/samantha-data/blob/main/samantha-1.0.json I have...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
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SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
Steve Klabnik
Against Names
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Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve...
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I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not some other size? With any question like this, I think there are two options: It’s a historical accident,...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
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A Smart Bear
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for...
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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...
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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.
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Finding acoustical delight in THE THOCK Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I...
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Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
Irrational...
Lessons not worth learning. A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team...
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A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
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Getting buy-in to get things done When you are working in any sort of leadership role, you'll have to get people to work toward...
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When you are working in any sort of leadership role, you'll have to get people to work toward initiatives that you're leading or make changes you're proposing. Whether you're a line manager running a team day-to-day, or a principal engineer pushing technical initiatives forward,...
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Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
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AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is...
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NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is we keep raising the bar on what it means for something to be a machine intelligence. Early machine learning models have been quite successful in terms of real world impact. Large...
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Welcoming Maria Thomas as Buffer’s Chief Product Officer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In July, we shared that we were looking for a...
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. In July, we shared that we were looking for a product leader to help us take Buffer forward in our next phase. After speaking to an incredible group of talented folks in product, I’m happy to share that Maria
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
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For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
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More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
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Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
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It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 009: Thinking with ink, spreadsheets for exploring scenarios, and a local-first key... A project from our programmable ink track, a spreadsheet for exploring scenarios, and a new...
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Clientside Webmentions How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Covering your webcams! Plus, our new newsletter and articles! A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't...
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A new episode of Loose Leaf Security is out to remind you to cover your webcams when you aren't using them, and it features my favorite episode art yet: Covering your webcams Liz and Geoffrey take a look at how attackers compromise webcams and discuss why it's worth physically...
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Flickr Foundation at iPres 2024 &rarr; I wrote about a recent conference trip for the Flickr.org blog: In September, Tori and I went to...
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I wrote about a recent conference trip for the Flickr.org blog: In September, Tori and I went to Belgium for iPres 2024. We were keen to chat about digital preservation and discuss some of our ideas for Data Lifeboat – and enjoy a few Belgian waffles, of course! We ran a workshop...
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Cookie banners: How to stay GDPR compliant?
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Array 1.43.0: Massive performance improvements! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Need to update a self-hosted instance…
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Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
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The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
David Gerrells
all the ways to css I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
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I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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AI Regulation There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
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Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
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How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
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Paper review: C-store It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read...
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It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read "C-store: a column-oriented DBMS" from chapter 4 of the Red Book. This one I picked since I thought it would be helpful for the chess database I'm working on, and it does seem...
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Is development the right career for me? Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
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Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling with. It’s one […] The post Is development the right career for me? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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We tried that, didn’t work In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
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In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible. That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
wingolog
conservative gc can be faster than precise gc Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is...
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Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative? The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each...
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The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
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The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
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The Rules of Margin Collapse “Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets...
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“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
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We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
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Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
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Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?)
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Movie Director Genders
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HTMHell
What the slot? by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used...
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by Egor Kloos (aka dutchcelt) Web Components. The discussion seems to pop up more than it used to. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework HTML Web Components: An Example Material web components 1.0 release HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? Web Components...
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Resentment If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one...
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If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one monkey a grape, and nobody is happy with their cucumber any more. They might even throw the slices back at the experimenter. He got a god damned grape this is bullshit I don’t want a...
Blog of Simple...
Ultimate HIPAA Compliance Checklist: Essential Steps for Healthcare Providers
over a year ago
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What we've learned about talking to users This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
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This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products by learning…
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Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In Slides and show notes for my updated Talk at Reactathon
over a year ago
Making software...
Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren't great (and still aren't perfect) but they represented a...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Eric Bailey
Chinese rooms, wasps, slime molds, and the problem of other minds The Chinese room is an argument created by philosopher John Searle. It states that computer programs...
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The Chinese room is an argument created by philosopher John Searle. It states that computer programs will never have consciousness, despite appearing so to an external human observer. Arguments about strong artifical intelligence, as well as the philosophy of mind commonly cite...
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
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My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The...
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I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
Steve Klabnik
git, history modification, and libuv
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger...
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5 months ago
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia? Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts. Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design...
Sometimes It Works...
A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
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Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Tech Layoffs in 2022 I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about...
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I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about companies laying off people. Some of this scoop has not been reported before. I don't want to broadcast layoffs on Twitter or LinkedIn continuously, but also
David Heinemeier...
Capture less than you create I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore,...
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I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond satisfying to see this much value created with a web framework I've spent the...
Yale e360
Approximating the Sierpinski Triangle on my CNC One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's...
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One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's chess club. As part of that, we like to run rated tournaments to get our members some experience in a low-pressure tournament environment. These are my responsibility to organize and...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
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Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
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7 best session replay tools for mobile apps (iOS & Android) 1. LogRocket Typical users: Product managers, engineers, support teams What is LogRocket? LogRocket...
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1. LogRocket Typical users: Product managers, engineers, support teams What is LogRocket? LogRocket is a product experience platform that focuses on…
Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
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We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
Making software...
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I've been using a Samsung 27" UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn't a bad setup, but I have since...
Epic Web Dev
Anatomy of a Test (article) Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal...
a year ago
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Explore the analogy between learning human anatomy and writing code tests, emphasizing a universal three-step structure: Setup, Action, and Assertion.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
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a year ago
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
Tony Finch's blog
syntax highlighting with tree-sitter I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I learned, with some complaining. static site generator markdown ingestion highlighting incompatible?! highlight names class names styling code results future...
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
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10 months ago
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
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Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll...
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a year ago
This will be three Recently monthly blog posts in a row, without a regular post in the middle. I’ll write a standalone post again, soon enough. It’s been another busy year and I’m as aware as ever of the challenge of keeping all of my habits and outputs going. Some, like...
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
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Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
alexwlchan
The Star-Spangled Ballad In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this...
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In an hour or so, Hannah Waddingham will take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall, and present this year’s Olivier Awards. I won’t be there, but a number of dear friends are in the audience, and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for Operation Mincemeat – a musical with which we...
Irrational...
Using cultural survey data. When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal...
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over a year ago
When I was at Stripe, I reworked the hiring process for Director-plus engineering managers. My goal was to better evaluate polished senior leaders who always said the right thing. I wanted to find the real beliefs and behaviors underneath all the polish. One interview focused on...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Streaming & Recording I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life...
a year ago
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a year ago
I started streaming on Twitch a while ago. My plan was to do it regularly, but you know how life gets in the way. I'm going to make a concerted effort to do more tho going forwards. Streams are going to be focused on my side projects and open source work I stream on Twitch...
The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
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over a year ago
200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
bt RSS Feed
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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over a year ago
Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
A Smart Bear
Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.
Josh Collinsworth
Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React) Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them...
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over a year ago
Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them right, for all users, in any (or no) framework.
A Day In The Life...
Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept Introducting BitMaelum - A new mail concept
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Marco.org
The 2018 Mac Mini Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my...
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over a year ago
Watch the video review I hardly ever think about my Mac Mini, but it serves a vital role for my family as our home-theater mixer, Plex server, ScanSnap server, Apple Photos backup, and Backblaze host for our NAS.1 Almost every port on the back is in use, and it runs 24/7,...
David Heinemeier...
Automattic is doing open source dirty Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to...
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Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not "giving back enough" to WordPress is a wanton violation of general open source ideals and the specifics of the GPL license. Automattic is completely out of line, and the potential damage to the open source world...
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
a year ago
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a year ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
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over a year ago
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
We’re All Content Creators for Machines Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since...
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8 months ago
Nicholas Carr, one of my favorite technology writers, has been blogging over on Rough Type since [checks archives] 2005. As of late his writing has gone quiet, but he’s got a new book due out early next year and I think he’s starting up blogging again to help drum up interest....
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
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over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
David Crawshaw
2015-12-04 www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing-sawzall-case-study-in-domain.html
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Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
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Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts...
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Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published? For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...
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Notes on RSI for Developers I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some...
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I'm starting to feel some RSI in my left hand. It's a matter of time. I decided to collect some information about it to make improvements now rather than later.
Contraption Co.
Wine craft 2024 harvest season in Alsace
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stop Being Fancy This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with,...
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This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with, “Can this be done?” If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that. But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…" Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
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over a year ago
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...
Steve Klabnik
Choosing Languages
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Neil Panchal
Eternal Robustness "Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
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"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
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a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
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over a year ago
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
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Joel Gascoigne
What is failure for you? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One thing I realised over the holiday period is that my definition of failure in a couple of things had changed considerably since the year before. In particular, in the year of 2012 I built up...
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How we rebranded PostHog in four weeks - a postmortem We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a...
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over a year ago
We recently completed an entire rebrand of our website. From start to finish, it took less than a month. This sounds like an incredible feat of…
Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
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over a year ago
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
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over a year ago
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
Steve Klabnik
SF
over a year ago
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a...
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9 months ago
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps. Background But first, let me provide some context. Last year, shortly before Rails World 2023, we open sourced...
Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
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10 months ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language Your browser does not support the video tag.
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MMapped blog
When Rust hurts
over a year ago
Yale e360
Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
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a year ago
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine <![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack...
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<![CDATA[For Chrismtas 2024 I bought myself a lovely little Cardputer uLisp Machine, an M5Stack Cardputer that can run uLisp. The M5Stack Cardputer is a card-sized, microcontroller-based portable system for home automation, hobby, and industrial applications. Although not...
TokyoDev
A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies...
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There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take...
Charles Chen
Cheap and Easy Way to Scrape Sites for LLM Processing If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started...
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If you need to extract text from websites to feed into LLMs, this easy solution will get you started with just a few lines of code.
Irrational...
Making images consistent for book. TODO: fix TODOs below After working on diversifying strategies I linked as examples in...
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3 months ago
TODO: fix TODOs below After working on diversifying strategies I linked as examples in #eng-strategy-book, the next problem I wanted to start working on was consistent visual appearances across all images included in the book. There are quite a few images, so I wanted to started...
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
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Irrational...
How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018) While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to...
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While discussions around acquisitions often focus on technical diligence and deciding whether to make the acquisition, the integration that follows afterwards can be even more complex. There are few irreversible trapdoor decisions in engineering, but decisions made early in an...
Maggie Appleton
Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Node
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Ensemble Learning and AdaBoost Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how...
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over a year ago
Better together - how bootstrapping samples of data can work better than the entire dataset, and how to boost it even further, and faster
Yale e360
Running an Effective Book Club at Work Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even with the wealth of information on web sites and in videos, books remain a great resource for learning. And they're great for group learning, too! We've run a book club at work a few times. Some sessions were more successful than others. The main way our book clubs faltered...
Joel Gascoigne
The different ways of traveling * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the incredible side-effects of doing retreats 3 times a year with my startup [https://joel.is/post/79092725144/why-we-go-on-international-retreats-3-times-a-year-with] is that I get the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
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over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
Josh Collinsworth
Pantone, Color, and What I Wish I Had Known Sooner as a Designer One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a...
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over a year ago
One of the most difficult things for me to learn in my transition from the classroom to a professional branding agency was how to properly handle color output. So I decided to write this post in the hope of saving you some from some of the pitfalls that I failed to avoid.
A Smart Bear
It's a torturous chaos until it isn't Even at wildly successful startups, the first few years are gut-wrenching, uncertain, on the brink...
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Even at wildly successful startups, the first few years are gut-wrenching, uncertain, on the brink of collapse, where pessimism is realism, and yet optimism is required.
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
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Eric Bailey
Saying thank you Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that...
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over a year ago
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that isn’t being strangled by malignant forces. This includes the web. It's been a long time since the altruistic early web—putting content out there for the its own sake. The web...
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Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
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over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Ink & Switch
2024 Unconf Los Angeles Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
8 months ago
Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 005: Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
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