Tinloof - Blog
Website migration 101: transitioning to a headless CMS
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot...
a year ago
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
Liz Denys
Leave icebreakers to strangers, or how to spin friends and introduce people
My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits,...
over a year ago
My favorite way to meet new people is through my existing set of friends. There are many benefits, the obvious one being that my friends tend to have great taste in people.
But I'm also at least a little bit awkward. Despite consciously thinking about asking thoughtful versions...
Max Countryman
Value Modes and Mud Balls
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This...
a year ago
In developing software products, we're often accustomed to prioritizing incremental delivery. This is usually a good way to mitigate the risk of working on the wrong thing. However, sometimes our problems don't fit neatly into accretive methodologies and we need to consider other...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Subversive Hyperlink
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an...
10 months ago
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link.
This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll...
8 months ago
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2.
Step 2: Hit the “Send” button.
Shortly after...
David Gerrells
How fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
6 months ago
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu. Let’s go.
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Against Namespacing Personal Sites
I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm...
over a year ago
I care a lot about creating Cool URIs so I have been paralyzed more than I should be about what I'm calling "URL Architecture". In true fashion, I'm blogging about it.
Florian Bellmann |...
Build a career path by multiplying your value
Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
a year ago
Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
orlp.net - Blog...
The World's Smallest Hash Table
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are...
a year ago
This December I once again did the Advent of Code,
in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions
are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2
problem as it is both optimized completely
beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For...
macwright.com
How could you make a scalable online geospatial editor? by
I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not...
12 months ago
I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not founding another geo startup anytime soon. I’d love to found another bootstrapped startup eventually, but geospatial is hard.
Anyway, geospatial data is big, which does not combine well...
Josh Comeau's blog
Why React Re-Renders
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
over a year ago
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
blag
Errata in Hekaton MVCC paper
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error...
a year ago
Hekaton MVCC Paper contains a publication error. After reviewing the paper, I confirmed the error with one of the authors. This blog post explains the mistake, the implications and the fix.
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles
As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
a year ago
As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by ()
I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
a year ago
I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
HTMHell
The Hellish History of HTML: An incomplete and personal account
by Jason Cranford Teague
Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024
Note: HTML standards are developed...
a year ago
by Jason Cranford Teague
Timeline of HTML from 1990–2024
Note: HTML standards are developed first in browsers, so the version might have already became the de facto standard before the official standard document is released.
The story so far:
In the beginning Tim...
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
3 months ago
When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
ntietz.com blog
Are any of your features the steak on the menu?
At my first job, we were a distributed team and would get together often.
When we went out to eat,...
12 months ago
At my first job, we were a distributed team and would get together often.
When we went out to eat, one of my coworkers would always order the steak if it was anywhere on the menu.
Every single time we went to some Ohio restaurant that had truly lackluster steak, he'd order it...
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...
over a year ago
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...
bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout).
This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign!
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day.
It all started with the watchOS volume...
over a year ago
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day.
It all started with the watchOS volume widget.
You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted:
Standalone podcast...
Stephen Wolfram...
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
a year ago
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
samwho.dev
Life Skills Learned Playing World of Warcraft
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft...
over a year ago
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I had an addiction to an online game called World of Warcraft (WoW).
In the first half of this post I'm going to explain the game and how I played it. In the second half I'll talk about the skills I learned and how they've helped me.
If you played a...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard?
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
8 months ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been...
over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
blag
Recurse Center Day 24: Hacking Go compiler to add a new keyword
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
over a year ago
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
Liz Denys
Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
over a year ago
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
HTMHell
#4 link-also-button
Bad code
<a href="https://example.com">
<button>Example</button>
</a>
Issues and how to fix...
over a year ago
Bad code
<a href="https://example.com">
<button>Example</button>
</a>
Issues and how to fix them
By nesting a button inside of a link, you’re sending two messages: this is a button, but also this is a link.
If you’re not sure when to use <a> or <button>, watch The Links vs....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Web Components: An Example
In my article on HTML web components, I said:
But the unique power of web components (in the...
a year ago
In my article on HTML web components, I said:
But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React components cannot do this — full stop.
There’s a lot in there I wanted to explain more in-depth, but I just never go to it.
Then...
Computer Things
Stroustrop's Rule
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light.
Hanuka Sale
Logic...
3 weeks ago
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light.
Hanuka Sale
Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here.
Stroustrop's Rule
I first encountered Stroustrop's Rule on this...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Headless CMS
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this post, we explain in a few minutes what Headless CMS is and show you how it's used. So, what is a headless CMS, what are the use cases and...
A Beautiful Site
Solving the search problem
I recently wrote about using an ORM and how it allowed me to support five different database...
over a year ago
I recently wrote about using an ORM and how it allowed me to support five different database platforms with minimal effort. There is, however, one feature that even Sequelize couldn't tackle for me: full-text search
A full-text search is typically a database feature that lets you...
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace
The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
7 months ago
The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
over a year ago
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
bt RSS Feed
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I’ve most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware January 2024
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
10 months ago
As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
Steve Klabnik
Create a more compelling experience for your users through game mechanics
over a year ago
charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
a week ago
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Web Components on My Icon Galleries Websites
I recently redesigned my icon gallery sites.
The goal: create a layout that allows you to customize...
a year ago
I recently redesigned my icon gallery sites.
The goal: create a layout that allows you to customize the view around the collection of icons you’re looking at by changing the size and spacing of the grid — sort of like the thumbnail view on macOS finder.
I’m happy with how it...
swyx's site RSS Feed
CFP Advice
Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
over a year ago
Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
Charles Chen
3 Tips to Help Dev Teams Build Speed
My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
over a year ago
My observations on practices that help all teams build speed.
bt RSS Feed
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But...
over a year ago
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
TokyoDev
Pair Programming Event a Success
The [first pair programming event](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp/events/1777) of Tokyo Rubyist...
over a year ago
The [first pair programming event](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp/events/1777) of Tokyo Rubyist Meetup went event better than I expected it to. The event was hosted at [HatchUp's TechBuzz space](http://www.socialtoprunners.jp/techbuzz/), and started with an introduction to pair...
Epic Web Dev
Creating Glassmorphism Effects with Tailwind CSS (tip)
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve...
a year ago
Learn how to create glassmorphism effects using the backdrop blur in Tailwind CSS and achieve realistic translucent credit card designs.
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
over a year ago
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
Irrational...
Good hypergrowth/curator manager.
In 2016, I wrote Productivity in the age of hypergrowth to discuss the challenges of engineering...
a year ago
In 2016, I wrote Productivity in the age of hypergrowth to discuss the challenges of engineering management during periods of hypergrowth. Managers in such periods spend much of their time on hiring and onboarding, with the remainder devoted to organizational structure and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
over a year ago
Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
over a year ago
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either.
This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
macwright.com
Open charter companies and relicensing
A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
a year ago
A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...
Alex MacCaw
Pain
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
3 months ago
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is:
We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
over a year ago
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you
when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a
plunger will temporarily fix it.
We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary
wall sprayer both controlled by the...
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....
4 months ago
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Machine Learning at Google
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over a year ago
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language
Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting...
a year ago
Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I...
Neil Panchal
Eternal Robustness
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
a year ago
"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."
Making software...
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on
the internet are such...
a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on
the internet are such assholes!”
I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve
learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers
over the years,...
TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
Greg Brockman
Stellar board
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
over a year ago
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board.
Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
over a year ago
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
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In-depth: PostHog vs Mixpanel
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these...
over a year ago
Want to know how PostHog and Mixpanel are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Mixpanel is a product analytics tool…
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
Reloading the...
2 weeks ago
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
Reloading the browser automatically on source changes is a problem that has been well-solved for a long time. Here, we wanted to put an accent on smoothness. If the reload operation is very...
37signals Dev
Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit
What is an homograph attack
Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
6 months ago
What is an homograph attack
Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters.
A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
bt RSS Feed
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color
2022-04-18
Supporting dark mode on the...
over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color
2022-04-18
Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024
Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
8 months ago
Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
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...
over a year ago
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...
A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
a year ago
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
bt RSS Feed
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
2022-08-12
I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
over a year ago
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
2022-08-12
I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife’s personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn’t touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
swyx's site RSS Feed
"No Code" vs RPA
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real...
over a year ago
RPA seems to be NoCode Enterprise Edition™ and the pricing disparity is wild. But there are real differences and I am trying to note them down here.
The Changelog
Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the...
over a year ago
Update: Facebook has reversed itself over this censorship, but I maintain that whether the censorship was algorithmic or human, it was intentional either way. Details in my new post. Last November, I made a brief post to Facebook about Mastodon. Mastodon is an open-source and...
dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores
compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
over a year ago
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores
compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5.
Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes
on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and
more naive...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
over a year ago
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest().
// Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element
// that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the
// <body>...
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
A Beautiful Site
Exploring the EyeDropper API
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets...
over a year ago
The EyeDropper API has landed in Chrome and Edge 95! This is a simple promise-based API that lets you select a color from anywhere on the screen. Let's dive in and see how it works.
To start, we'll add a button that activates the eye dropper.
<button type="button">Select a...
Hixie's Natural Log
How big is the Flutter team?
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because...
11 months ago
I often get asked how many people contribute to Flutter.
It's a hard question to answer because "contribute" is a very vague concept. There's tens of thousands of packages on pub.dev, all of which are written by contributors to the community. There's over 100,000 of issues...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS
the full text of my State of JS writeup!
over a year ago
the full text of my State of JS writeup!
A Smart Bear
Scars
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
a month ago
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
11 months ago
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product
One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We...
a year ago
One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post…
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup
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over a year ago
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I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like
cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I
wanted to share my experiences and...
A Beautiful Site
Social sharing buttons are ineffective
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why...
over a year ago
Back in 2012, I wrote an article called Down with the "Share" Widget. In it, I talked about why plastering social sharing buttons all over your website is completely ineffective. This morning, Smashing Magazine all but confirmed my theory.
In today's Smashing Newsletter, they...
bt RSS Feed
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
2020-05-13
Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see...
over a year ago
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS
2020-05-13
Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
Tony Finch's blog
Moaning about YAML frontmatter
As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site
is generated from a file...
8 months ago
As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site
is generated from a file containing markdown with YAML frontmatter.
Neither markdown nor YAML are good. Markdown is very much the
worse-is-better of markup languages; YAML, on the other hand, is more
like...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away
Stefan Judis on Twitter:
I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
a year ago
Stefan Judis on Twitter:
I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off.
The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔
I’ve been thinking...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets
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over a year ago
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off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of
buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
the singularity is...
choose your own adventure
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
a year ago
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone.
Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity?
The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
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
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.
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
over a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
a year ago
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
HTMHell
One day we'll have a fully customisable select
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based...
over a year ago
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based custom input components: <selectmenu>.
CSS is awesome
I realise this calendar is about HTML. And I'll get to that. But first, let me start with CSS. CSS is fantastic, because it has...
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Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
a month ago
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A perspective shift on automated market makers through MEV
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Determining your app's base directory in Node.js
Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight...
over a year ago
Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd think in Node. Here's a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app's root directory.
Add this somewhere towards the start of your main app...
Tony Finch's blog
LEGO Technic beam sandwich keyboard case
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way.
story time
Two years ago I...
a year ago
My Keybird69 uses LEGO in its enclosure, in an unconventional way.
story time
Two years ago I planned to make a typical
acrylic sandwich case
for HHKBeeb, in the style of the BBC Micro’s black and yellowish beige
case. But that never happened because it was too hard to choose...
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
6 months ago
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
Epic Web Dev
Understanding the Order of JavaScript Module Evaluation on the Web (tip)
Discover the order in which JavaScript modules are evaluated on the web. From server index to entry...
a year ago
Discover the order in which JavaScript modules are evaluated on the web. From server index to entry server and client, we trace the flow of evaluation.
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
A Beautiful Site
Whipping file inputs into shape with Bootstrap
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all...
over a year ago
There are many, many, many ways to hack a file input so it looks and behaves consistently across all browsers. There's even a pretty slick plugin to help get the job done. Unfortunately, most of these solutions are cumbersome, prone to cross-browser issues, and require...
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
11 months ago
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.
Nowadays companies and...
The Changelog
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a...
a year ago
Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN. The traditional use case is to connect to a corporate or home network from a remote location, and access services as if you were there. But these days, the notion of “corporate network” and “home network” are less based around...
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
a year ago
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
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5 ways to improve your product analytics data
This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at...
a year ago
This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at cybersecurity company Snyk . She is currently an…
A Beautiful Site
There's a reason that Bootstrap 3 has ugly buttons
It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out.
But before you...
over a year ago
It's true. Everyone loves Bootstrap's buttons...at least they did until 3.0 came out.
But before you get upset at @mdo and @fat for what many mistake to be a move towards the anti-skeuomorphic design trend, you should realize there's more than meets the eye behind the decision to...
ntietz.com blog
Work on tasks, not stories
One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
9 months ago
One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2.
That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users.
There are some cases in which this...
Irrational...
Deciding to leave your (executive) job.
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up...
a year ago
If two friendly executives meet for dinner, it’s likely they start by exchanging just how messed up things are at work.
Initiatives are behind, layoffs are happening everywhere, the team is in disarray.
Then they’ll laugh, and switch topics. Sometimes one of the executives can’t...
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Group Analytics is now available in PostHog
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
over a year ago
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
Joel Gascoigne
What are your top 3 challenges?
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over a year ago
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There are a few key things which looking back I remember I was very bad at. One
of them was asking people for advice.
I think a key turning point with this was when we raised funding for...
wingolog
fedi is for losers
Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and
with reason: we have things in...
3 months ago
Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and
with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused
to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or
tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
A Beautiful Site
Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option?
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
over a year ago
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
bt RSS Feed
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on...
over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects
2021-12-03
With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023
The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
a year ago
The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
over a year ago
Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible.
Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
over a year ago
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔
The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from?
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
3 weeks ago
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web.
The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
blag
In search of a faster SQLite
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using...
2 weeks ago
Researchers at the University of Helsinki and Cambridge attempted to build a faster SQLite using modern programming paradigms like io_uring and disaggregated storage. They demonstrate up to a 100x reduction in tail latency. These are my notes.
A Beautiful Site
What can you do with a single <div>?
If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create...
over a year ago
If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create something incredible?
That's exactly what Lynn Fisher has been doing with A Single Div. Using only a single HTML element and some CSS, she's created some shockingly complex artwork...
A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping,...
a month ago
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
"'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core—
Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor,
Each component, standardized,...
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The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
a year ago
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
David Heinemeier...
The law of the land
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
a year ago
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
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...
a year ago
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…
Tony Finch's blog
tolower() small string performance
I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on
tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for...
5 months ago
I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on
tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for all the great comments and
discussion!
One aspect that needed more work was examining the performance for
small strings. The previous blog post had a graph for strings up to
about...
bt RSS Feed
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin
2018-09-20
I find myself blowing away default browser select styling...
over a year ago
Pure CSS Simple Dropdown Plugin
2018-09-20
I find myself blowing away default browser select styling and implementing my own custom dropdowns far more often than I’d like. So, I recently created a very simple and clean component using just pure CSS.
Check out the CodePen below...
ntietz.com blog
[Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog),...
over a year ago
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog), and for good reason. So, it should be no surprise that it's also turning up in our dystopian novels!
"The Circle" is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers. While fiction, it is set in a...
Computer Things
Stroustrup's Rule
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light.
Hanuka Sale
Logic...
3 weeks ago
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light.
Hanuka Sale
Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here.
Stroustrup's Rule
I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
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Array 1.7.0
This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data...
over a year ago
This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much…
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
4 months ago
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
Ognjen Regoje •...
Green flags for investable founders
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
a year ago
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication.
Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline
A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will:
a) be for their company, not for them
b) be the sales pitch, not a...
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Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs BigQuery
Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data),...
a year ago
Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data), but they have distinct philosophies and use cases…
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
5 months ago
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
Liz Denys
Reflections on XOXO 2018
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to...
over a year ago
If I actually wrote about XOXO 2018 last weekend like I had intended to do, I would have tried to write an article titled "XOXO strives to be what the internet should strive to be," and I probably would have never finished it. It's not that I don't still think XOXO tries to be...
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
a year ago
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
blag
Recurse Center Day 17
Disk Storage I
over a year ago
Chris Nicholas
Building an AI toolbar for text editors
I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some...
5 months ago
I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some details on how it was created.
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
over a year ago
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is...
over a year ago
Another week of my RC batch wraps up.
I'm done with five weeks, and seven weeks are left!
Time is still flying by, and I've hit an inflection point.
I have gotten what I want out of the two projects I've worked on so far, so I'm going to wrap them up and move on to one new...
bt RSS Feed
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
over a year ago
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut
2021-12-06
I recently decided to switch my personal, static site’s hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
alexwlchan
A blue plaque for Hester
In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical...
a year ago
In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical currently playing in the Fortune Theatre.
The writing is clever, the songs are catchy, and it’s laugh-a-minute funny, but it can also be solemn and moving.
The show is based on the...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to hire first rockstar employee
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can...
over a year ago
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […]
The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log()
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
2 months ago
So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values.
I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #2: Horoscopes
No June would be complete without Pride horoscopes
a year ago
No June would be complete without Pride horoscopes
A Beautiful Site
A better way to write config files in PHP
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name...
over a year ago
How many times have you seen something like this in a config file?
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_name = 'somedb';
$db_user = 'someuser';
$db_pass = 'somepass';
Then, of course, it gets included and the variables are referenced as globals:
include('config.php');
echo $db_host; //...
markround.com
A Splinter In Your Mind
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I finally discovered as an adult that I am “on the spectrum” with what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis helped make sense of a lot things and has given me a greater insight into my “way of being in the world”. Whilst there are times I...
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
6 months ago
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange:
Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
Alice GG
Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats?
Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
a year ago
Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains.
Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum.
Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Medley as a Common Lisp development environment
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Since encountering Medley I gained considerable experience with Interlisp. Medley Interlisp is a project for preserving, reviving, and modernizing the Interlisp-D software development environment of the Lisp Machines Xerox created at PARC.
Nine months later I know...
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WP Enqueue for Beginners
WP Enqueue for Beginners
2020-05-05
Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing...
over a year ago
WP Enqueue for Beginners
2020-05-05
Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing WordPress themes, I’ve come across many that include their custom styles / scripts as static HTML elements inside their respective header and footer templates. This is perfectly fine, but...
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Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Life and Death
the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
9 months ago
the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
Epic Web Dev
The Epic Stack
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to...
a year ago
Introducing an opinionated project starter that enables web development teams to ship their ideas to production more efficiently.
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...
over a year ago
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...
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I...
a year ago
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes
below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses.
About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is
without the seat...
Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Distractions Cause Bad Code
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our...
over a year ago
We are barraged by constant distractions, and they are degrading the quality of our work. Our digital society now is set up to allow us to focus for mere minutes at a time, since we are in an attention economy and the sole objective of companies is to capture more of our time....
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
a year ago
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired.
A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
Irrational...
Navigators
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is...
a year ago
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes:
Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows.
Changes in this release:
2 page view for ebooks
new keybindings:
Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page
Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page
10x faster ebook...
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
12 months ago
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset.
The HTML
Like most...
Joel Gascoigne
What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go
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over a year ago
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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
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
a year ago
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
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Know Your Tools
> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Tinloof - Blog
Figma variables: tips from 3 scenarios
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of...
a year ago
Figma variables are a feature let you reuse and manage design elements more easily. Instead of manually updating each instance of a design element, you can set a variable, like a color or padding, and apply it across your project.
If you want to make a change, you update the...
Blog - Bitfield...
Type parameters in Go
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for
type parameters. We’ll...
9 months ago
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for
type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write
them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
ntietz.com blog
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
a year ago
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together.
It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends.
But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
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Supervised Learning: Classification Learning & Decision Trees
The simplest form of Classification algorithm
over a year ago
The simplest form of Classification algorithm
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
over a year ago
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
11 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out:
See the...
Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them?
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
over a year ago
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […]
The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume.
I was primed to be...
8 months ago
A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume.
I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic.
He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
HTMHell
Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
by Daniela Kubesch
In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
a year ago
by Daniela Kubesch
In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals.
In this blog post, I'll guide you...
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...
4 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.
Epic Web Dev
What's Coming in React 19 Beta (tip)
8 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demo notefile for WebCard
<, I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
a year ago
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
Making software...
The Death of Personality
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
over a year ago
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
A Smart Bear
Easy to criticize, hard to create
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally...
10 months ago
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally ignore the critics.
Charles Chen
5 Engineering Lessons from Early Stage Startups
Lessons learned from working at startups ranging from seed stage to series-B/C funding over the last...
a year ago
Lessons learned from working at startups ranging from seed stage to series-B/C funding over the last 3 years.
Making software...
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-26
I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible,...
over a year ago
Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menu
2019-04-26
I love the idea of stripping away as much CSS as possible, while still maintaining the original UI concept. Let's build out a demo example with a simple menu dropdown element.
Interesting facts about our final CSS menu:
Total weight 121 bytes...
samwho.dev
A Commitment to Art and Dogs
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height:...
7 months ago
.dog-line {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: nowrap;
flex-direction: row;
width: 100%;
height: 10rem;
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 2rem;
}
.dog-line img {
flex-grow: 1;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
object-fit: contain;
}
.dog-grid {
display:...
A Smart Bear
In command
Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest,...
a year ago
Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest, introspective, agile, aware, and proactive.
A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
over a year ago
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise.
One...
Making software...
Open Source Typeface Pairings
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost).
So, I've...
Steve Klabnik
What comes after open source
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Working on WebCard card initialization and URL visiting
<![CDATA[The WebCard project is moving forward again. My latest work involved card initialization...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[The WebCard project is moving forward again. My latest work involved card initialization and URL visiting.
When a new Web card is created, the associated URL is now inserted as text in the content area of the card. This is useful documentation and prevents the potential...
Charles Chen
Server Sent Events with .NET 7
An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
a year ago
An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in...
a year ago
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing.
In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023:
Targets for 2023
❎ Publish at least 40 posts
14
✅ Reach at least 150k...
Darek Kay
Npm vs. Yarn: Dependency resolution
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some...
over a year ago
Both npm and Yarn support dependency version ranges (e.g. ^4.1.1). However, there are some differences in how package managers resolve dependencies, which might lead to inconsistencies between different environments.
In this post I will present the behavior of npm 7.15.1 and Yarn...
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The Power of Lampshading
How to turn Ignorance into Power
over a year ago
How to turn Ignorance into Power
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Measuring Developer Relations
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective...
over a year ago
DevRel is hot but nobody knows how to measure it. That's because we don't agree on what effective DevRel *is*, and we don't agree on the tradeoffs of lagging vs leading metrics for a creative, unattributable, intimately human endeavor.
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Formats over Functions
Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
over a year ago
Why we should focus less on Implementation and more on Standardization
somenice
Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
over a year ago
Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In the years following that tragic event, flotsam began arriving on the Pacific West Coast. Volunteers making great effort to return...
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
...
over a year ago
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
<section>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)">
<figcaption>
<h4>My heading</h4>
...
Tinloof - Blog
Images and videos on Sanity
This article is outdated. You can read the Managing Tinloof-powered websites article...
over a year ago
This article is outdated. You can read the Managing Tinloof-powered websites article instead.
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Images and videos have to be properly configured to rank in search engine result pages and not impact negatively page speed.
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Building Authenticated Serverless Jamstack Apps with Gatsby and Netlify
Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a...
over a year ago
Gatsby is more than a simple static site generator. It uses JavaScript to rehydrate Markup into a fully dynamic React app - which means you can use APIs to do all sorts of dynamic functionality!
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
a year ago
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
User Feedback
I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user...
a year ago
I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user feedback on the app they’re building (Luro) and it reminded me of something I wanted to write down.
At a previous gig, we hired a head of user research who helped formalize and...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Site Search in Arc Browser — For Your Own Site
Arc just released site search built right into the browser.
Want to search for something...
a year ago
Arc just released site search built right into the browser.
Want to search for something specifically on Twitter? Pull up the search bar and start typing Twitter:
Select the site search option and hit Tab. This puts you into what I’ll call “site search mode”:
Once you enter...
Julia Evans
Open sourcing the nginx playground
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations
called nginx...
a year ago
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations
called nginx playground. There’s a
blog post about it here.
This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source,
but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading Crostini Linux from Bullseye to Bookworm
<![CDATA[ChromeOS Stable 121 rolled out to my ASUS Chromebox 3 and brought with it a one-click...
10 months ago
<![CDATA[ChromeOS Stable 121 rolled out to my ASUS Chromebox 3 and brought with it a one-click option to upgrade Crostini.
Crostini, the Debian based Linux container of chromeOS, was running Bullseye prior to that. ChromeOS 121 popped up a notification with a button offering to...
Vadim Kravcenko
As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed?
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the...
a year ago
First of all, congrats on starting this journey. So, you’re a non-technical co-founder in the process of product development, feeling […]
The post As a non-technical founder what should I be doing while the product is developed? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Liz Denys
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
a year ago
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The Frustration Loop
I've been engaged in an ongoing war with spammers. Because Bear is free-to-use it's naturally the...
a year ago
I've been engaged in an ongoing war with spammers. Because Bear is free-to-use it's naturally the target of backlink farmers, credit card phishers, illegal drug sellers, online casino advertisers, and crypto shillers.
I won't go into too much detail on the causes. I've written...
macwright.com
Bandcamp wrapped
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside...
4 weeks ago
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s
great and has been working well for me.
Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games
(?) and then acquired...
Joel Gascoigne
The magic of a great startup ecosystem
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over a year ago
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I’ve had a fascinating journey with Buffer, and having started in the UK and
living in San Francisco for 6 months, I’ve also had the opportunity in just the
last year to spend time in Hong Kong,...
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Follow Up
Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
over a year ago
Following up and following through is a well known formula for success. Yet people don't do it. Why?
Steve Klabnik
Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
over a year ago
Making software...
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers...
a year ago
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it's safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element's height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
ntietz.com blog
The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong.
With...
8 months ago
Logging is a critical tool for maintaining any web application, and yet we're getting it wrong.
With great logs, you can see what your application is doing.
And without them?
Things can be broken left and right without you ever finding out.
Instead, you wonder why your customers...
Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice:
By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
David Heinemeier...
Clear the barnacles
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
a year ago
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
2023-03-14
I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
a year ago
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...
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...
8 months 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...
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of (jQuery 3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I use Roam Research
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app.
Because I take a lot...
over a year ago
I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app.
Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me.
To me most important thing is:
lowest possible friction in adding new notes
fast way of...
Confessions of a...
An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
a month ago
No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
Liz Denys
Sea strands V60-style coffee cone, 2024
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
6 months ago
Rising sea levels / eroding beaches / between saltwater and the sea strands / melting ice caps
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Fight Link Rot with Server- and Client-side Redirects (Netlify and Gatsby)
Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
over a year ago
Why you need redirects on clientside and serverside and how to set that up with Gatsby and Netlify
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Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
over a year ago
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...
ntietz.com blog
Drawbacks of developing in containers
It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your...
over a year ago
It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your local development environment almost entirely in containers. There's a lot to be said for it, especially when you're bringing new developers into a project: it can be an invaluable...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Testing the Practical Common Lisp code on Medley
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