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Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination? Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
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Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Nelson's Weblog
Trump's plans for his second presidency The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Trump campaign and his braintrust have been very clear and open about their planning for a second presidency, mostly under the umbrella of Project 2025. There’s been a lot of good journalism about it. Some examples: Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside...
Steve Klabnik
Productivity Waves
over a year ago
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...
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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...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Enjoying the stability of Linux <![CDATA[I initially used Linux from the mid 1990s to 2015, first as dual boot with Windows 95 and...
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<![CDATA[I initially used Linux from the mid 1990s to 2015, first as dual boot with Windows 95 and then as my only desktop operating system. Back then my PC had an Nvidia graphics card and system updates frequently broke X11 on Linux, leaving me at the text console with no idea...
wingolog
baffled by generational garbage collection Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with questions, or rather one question, but with fractal surface area: what is the value proposition...
ByteofDev
A quick introduction to JavaScript Maps A quick introduction to the Maps datatype in JavaScript, and when to use it
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned. I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post about it. These introductory sections...
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.
alexwlchan
Finding books in nearby library branches I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing...
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over a year ago
I’m trying to make better use of my local public library. I want to read more books, and borrowing from the library keeps the habit sustainable. It also saves a fair bit of money, and I don’t have to decide what to do with books when I’m done. Recently, I built a tool to help me...
David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
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over a year ago
Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Nabbing macOS Icon Artwork I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I keep a personal collection of beautiful macOS app icons, which might make you ask: “How does he get those icons?” Apps in the App Store For apps in the Mac App Store, I have my ways. I don’t necessarily want to write about them because I’m semi-afraid Apple would frown on my...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.26.0 PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4 new team members we've onboarded.
Blog of Simple...
Is Google Analytics CCPA-compliant?
over a year ago
On Test Automation
PNSQC 2024 - experience report While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client base on the North American side of the Atlantic has slowly but surely started to grow, mainly in the United States. As someone who really enjoys working with and learning from...
The Codist
Why Are People Still Using C? C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand...
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a year ago
C is second in the latest TIOBE list of the most popular languages. I find it hard to understand why, unless there is a lot of existing code to support, I can't fathom why anyone would start something new in 2023 in C. I first learned C in
Blog of Simple...
What are Google Analytics' identifiers?
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
a year ago
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a year ago
The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
Epic Web Dev
Unleash the Designer in You (with Tailwind CSS) (article) Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design...
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11 months ago
Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design skills with utility classes and shared principles.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited....
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited. Their sales part number is ES-P2-I, but the silkscreen says DCHY-P2-6464-1515-VP. The seller is just the name slapped on the box; like most commodity wares, there’s likely multiple...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024 Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
8 months ago
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Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
Herman's blog
On being a great gift-giver I received a great gift that I love
8 months ago
Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
bt RSS Feed
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create...
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I’m a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
macwright.com
React is old My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web...
a year ago
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a year ago
My last big project at Mapbox was working on Mapbox Studio. We launched it in 2015. For the web stack, we considered a few other options - we had used d3 to build iD, which worked out great but we were practically the only people in the internet using d3 to build HTML UIs - I...
Steve Klabnik
Rust is more than safety
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
Blog System/5
Strings, encodings, NULs and Bazel A story on how strings without NULs are problematic for interop with the OS
a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Ultimate HIPAA Compliance Checklist: Essential Steps for Healthcare Providers
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
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
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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...
TokyoDev
A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I’ve worked as a recruiter sourcing candidates from around the world for a Japanese autonomous driving tech company, and have helped hundreds of English-speaking expats in secure...
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
Liz Denys
Updated colors for the Library Blanket color palette preview tool Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Purl Soho added some new colors and discontinued some old colors of the yarns called for in Joelle Hoverson's Library Blanket. I've added the eight new colors to the Library Blanket color palette preview tool I made last April, and I also labeled the discontinued colors as such....
Cognitive...
Built with Dolphin I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a list here of products or projects that use Dolphin. If you would like to be listed here please reach out to me and I'll add...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
a year ago
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It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Late October 2024: Inkling LIVE Presentation A few notes about the presentation, and a link to the video
8 months ago
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it? A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
David Heinemeier...
A writer's Ruby Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the stereotype of nerds in uncoordinated outfits or using pocket protectors. But style in the broad sense of aesthetics. Many appear imbued with fundamental opposition to the idea that how...
Patrick Kayongo
Martyr Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
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over a year ago
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Language Servers are the New Frameworks Developer Experience is shifting left, all the way to onKeyUp.
over a year ago
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
PostHog's RSS Feed
CEO diary: The things I learned in 2022 It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for...
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It's always helpful to look back on the year just gone, and 2022 was an exceptionally good year for PostHog. Here's my personal perspective on how it…
The Pragmatic...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
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The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
Eric Bailey
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
July 2022
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to plan a killer company offsite in just 8 weeks As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its...
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As a company born at the beginning of the pandemic, PostHog has been fully-remote from its inception. Our team is 35+ people distributed across 1…
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
10 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti...
a month ago
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In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a reminder to my...
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects...
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over a year ago
In System Preferences, you can change the accent colour of your Mac: This affects colours throughout your Mac’s user interface, including buttons, menus, and tickboxes. When you pick a new colour, it updates everywhere, immediately. I want to write some automations...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2023 Recap It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and...
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over a year ago
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and it was a [conference I helped organise](https://www.dddmelbourne.com). I didn’t know what to expect heading into Matsumoto for [RubyKaigi 2023](https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) this...
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
a year ago
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a year 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
Array 1.30.0 Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation analysis, saving insights for future use and a fully revamped recordings playback experience and more than 350 improvements/fixes more.
Confused bit
Simply explained: Where do programming languages come from? Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the...
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over a year ago
Our lives are surrounded by computers, from the smartphones to the elevator controller, from the plane to the game consoles. They can do so many things, but how do we tell them what to do? This involves programming, and people writing the program in specific languages made to...
TokyoDev
What if We Had a Party, but the Entertainment was a Conference: Tokyu RubyKaigi 14 Recap [Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Tokyu RubyKaigi](https://tokyurb.connpass.com/event/289120/) is a regional ruby conference held in Tokyo. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the event, the last Ruby conference I went to was [RubyKaigi](/articles/rubykaigi-2023-recap), but since this event attracted a similar...
Confessions of a...
A Software Engineer's Guide to Reading Research Papers My personal framework for reading research papers
5 months ago
Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy. Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
6 months ago
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Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform. This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs, as one component in understanding the company’s strategy. In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Senpai To Notice You How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to break the cold start problem in content creation as a new entrant to any field, and getting the leaders of that field to at least read your writing and know your name.
The Codist
Looks Good To Me: When Code Reviews Go Awry Code reviews can effectively improve code quality in large or mixed teams with experience...
a year ago
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a year ago
Code reviews can effectively improve code quality in large or mixed teams with experience differences. They can also be useless if not done correctly or if management does not support the time to do them. A code review is a modern invention, as the technology to do them easily...
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
03 · What's In a Name? Why we've renamed the project
4 months ago
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Visually Workshopping the AWS Cloud Some insights into how I collaborative with experts to create illustrated notes on technical topics
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.
2 months ago
Eric Bailey
Evaluating overlay-adjacent accessibility products I get asked about my opinion on overlay-adjacent accessibility products with enough frequency that I...
4 months ago
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I get asked about my opinion on overlay-adjacent accessibility products with enough frequency that I thought it could be helpful to write about it. There’s a category of third party products out there that are almost, but not quite an accessibility overlay. By this I mean that...
Ink & Switch
Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers. Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a...
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over a year ago
Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Reid Hoffman on AI, Big Tech, & Society Notion was kind enough to host a fireside chat between myself and Reid Hoffman on AI. Transcript and...
over a year ago
macwright.com
Thoughts on storing stuff in databases by () User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or...
a year ago
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User preferences should be columns in the users table. Don’t get clever with a json column or hstore. When you introduce new preferences, the power of types and default values is worth the headache of managing columns. Emails should probably be citext, case-insensitive text. But...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
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Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library. All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples Basics first Here’s a good...
Yale e360
Drawbacks of developing in containers It seems like everyone these days is developing in containers. Specifically, I mean running your...
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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...
somenice
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
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over a year ago
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
Posts on Nikita...
How Did I Become Database Engineer at 23 Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: When reading this post, please keep in mind that you are likely to come from a very different cultural background than me. Russians approach life in their own way and some things might seem strange. Still, this was my path and I would like to share it. My name is...
Liz Denys
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
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over a year ago
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
HTMHell
The Form Attribute - Enhancing Form Layout Flexibility by Alexander Muzenhardt Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Alexander Muzenhardt Consider a scenario where you have a login form containing two input fields with corresponding labels, alongside a submit and a reset button. If you submit the form, the action of the form gets triggered, and you can work with the formData. The layout...
Maggie Appleton
Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
over a year ago
The Codist
Twitter Was An Awesome Idea But Never A Viable Business Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Twitter was the best communications system ever invented, providing low-barrier-to-entry communications in real-time to people worldwide, creating self-organizing circles of common interests, allowing for easy discovery, and supporting an instant source of information. But, there...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
Blog - Bitfield...
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
David Crawshaw
2014-05-06 "No space for poem" twitter.com/rob_pike/status/463859025361125377
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Working The Reverse 9 to 5 Having weird sleeping hours is working out... very well for me.
over a year ago
Irrational...
Physics and perception. At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
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At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war. The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby. Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Is autocapture ‘still’ bad? Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a...
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Is autocapture bad? Has it ever been good? Earlier this year Amplitude posed these questions in a blogpost by Product Evangelist Adam Greco. Yes, he…
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
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over a year ago
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
macwright.com
Recently I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element...
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I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more of a grab-bag than usual! The <video> element and browser abstractions I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html (at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org link). The post is about a...
Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
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over a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
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My Pardot landing page starter kit Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I...
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Over the past year, I’ve built an increasing amount of Pardot landing pages in my day to day role. I think landing pages are a really…
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The 80s are still alive in Denmark I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents...
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I grew up in the 80s in Copenhagen and roamed the city on my own from an early age. My parents rarely had any idea where I went after school, as long as I was home by dinner. They certainly didn’t have direct relationships with the parents of my friends. We just figured things...
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
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Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table...
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table layouts across the web. When these tables contain hundreds of rows of content, things become problematic once you start to scroll… This should be a header Look at that table header...
Eric Bailey
A perceived contradiction to internalize when working on design systems Components are simultaneously both too restrictive and also not constrained enough.
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Yale e360
Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...
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A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
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Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving&nbsp;React Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
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Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are. I find this bizarre for two...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from? This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my computer get the time from? The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough and...
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in...
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Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Steve Klabnik
Protocol and language
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Scars Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
7 months ago
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...
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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...
David Crawshaw
Experimentation Adrift Experimentation Adrift 2018-03-30 You can learn numerous lessons from failure, almost all of them...
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Experimentation Adrift 2018-03-30 You can learn numerous lessons from failure, almost all of them bogus. This one I have thought about enough over the years that I think it is worth writing down. I started working on Google+ a few weeks before it publicly launched, and was there...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like...
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Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles because it looked nice, then wrote flowery language to justify why our…design is actually profound. As someone who has grown...
Vadim Kravcenko
Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
alexwlchan
A day out at the Bure Valley Railway Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north...
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Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Norfolk. I came across it quite by chance – I was driving through Aylsham to get to a B&B, and I spotted a sign pointing to the railway. I checked the website for a timetable,...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
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I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust vs Go in 2024 Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and...
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Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger...
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There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger projects — as long as somebody more knowledgable than me sets it up and maintains it. When I want type hints in VSCode for smaller, personal projects, I use JSDoc which lets you...
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Behind the syntax: let and const variables Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more...
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Back in 2015, the JavaScript language got it’s first significant update in 6 years. ES2015 – more colloquially known as ES6 – was released…
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Why You Should Pre-Sell My thoughts on preselling, from having done it successfully exactly one time.
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Be Mindful of What You Make Easy Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites...
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2 months ago
Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites in ye olden days, back in the dark times before npm. “Vendoring” is where you copy dependency source files directly into your project (usually in a folder called /vendor) and then...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder? Congratulations on finding an idea worth pursuing. So let’s talk about feasibility and understanding...
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Congratulations on finding an idea worth pursuing. So let’s talk about feasibility and understanding if it’s at all possible to […] The post How to determine app idea is technically feasible as a non-technical founder? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Eric Bailey
Open UI and implicit parent/child relationships in HTML This phenomenon indirectly came up recently in an Open UI meeting I was attending. If you’re not...
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This phenomenon indirectly came up recently in an Open UI meeting I was attending. If you’re not familiar, Open UI is a group full of people far smarter than I am working to “allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI controls.” Background HTML elements are single...
Steve Klabnik
Removing Turbolinks from Rails 4
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
Don't make me read your PR description I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
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I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
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PostHog is now available on Segment! We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a...
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We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a platform that works as an integrated data pipeline to…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand...
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Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you...
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
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David Crawshaw
2016-06-29 "moving the font engine out of the kernel in Windows (which Microsoft has done starting with Windows...
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"moving the font engine out of the kernel in Windows (which Microsoft has done starting with Windows 10)." googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-year-of-windows-kernel-font-fuzzing-1_27.html
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CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
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CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I’d like to focus specifically on the “new” CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let’s just jump...
alexwlchan
Getting alerts about flaky ECS tasks in Slack At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container...
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At work, we use Amazon ECS to run some of our Docker-based services. ECS is a container orchestrator, similar to Kubernetes: we tell it what Docker images we want to run in what configuration, and it stops or starts containers to match. If a container stops unexpectedly, ECS...
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram …Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
over a year ago
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…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
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For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
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8 months ago
I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
alexwlchan
Cosmetic updates to this site As well as changing the way I organise my writing, last year I made some cosmetic improvements to...
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4 months ago
As well as changing the way I organise my writing, last year I made some cosmetic improvements to this site. I design everything on this site myself, and I write the CSS by hand – I don’t use any third-party styles or frameworks. I don’t have any design training, and I don’t do...
Making software...
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...
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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...
A Beautiful Site
Building Custom Elements With a Library I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after...
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I often get asked why I use Lit to build web components. Hands down, it's become my preference after years of working with various libraries and tools. Here's why I use it. Libraries offer a better DX # This seems like a selfish answer for a developer to lean on, but there are...
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new...
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When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
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An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
6 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Trolling is a art
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
a year ago
alexwlchan
Cats, cross-stitch, and copyright I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually...
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I’ve always been a cat person, and my favourite species of cat (aside from the cats I’ve actually lived with) is the cheetah. This probably goes back to a school project about cheetahs I did when I was nine years old – I had to write about an endangered species for science...
On Test Automation
I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
Maggie Appleton
A Metaphorical Reading Collection A collection of my favourite books on conceptual metaphor theory
over a year ago
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: September 2023
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Ink & Switch
Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Did I just build a better useCallback? Edit: the technique initially proposed in this post was not concurrent-mode safe. I've added a new...
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Edit: the technique initially proposed in this post was not concurrent-mode safe. I've added a new section describing a fix to this problem. Thanks to the readers who noticed it! useCallback has always been one of my least favorite hooks: it does not provide much value over...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69 I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago,...
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I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design, manufacturing, and assembly process. microcontroller other components key...
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...
Joel Gascoigne
Ratio thinking * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve found difficult to completely embrace, but which understanding has been super important, is the idea that there is a ratio for everything. I’ve started to call this Ratio Thinking,...
blag
Recurse Center Day 17 Disk Storage I
over a year ago
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order...
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In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article. As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
Irrational...
Executive
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Too many words about Rust's function syntax
over a year ago
Computer Things
TLA from first principles No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on...
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No Newsletter next week I'll be speaking at USENIX SRECon! TLA from first principles I'm working on v0.5 of Logic for Programmers. In the process of revising the "System Modeling" chapter, I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on....
Steve Klabnik
On leftist infighting
over a year ago
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Private Conversations are Private I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I...
over a year ago
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I recently made a mistake. I make many, but this involved someone important to me and to people I know, so it stands out among the general cacophony of my many other failures. I wanted to own up to what I did, explain how I handled it, and in general take ownership of the...
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
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The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
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We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
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PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
Alex Meub
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
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over a year ago
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
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Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy. Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any...
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Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy actually exists within any engineering organizations. I imagine that they, reading through the steps to build engineering strategy, or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership, are not impressed....
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How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
a year ago
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
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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...
Maggie Appleton
Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...
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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of “security” or “easier platform management”. This approach forces...
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
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When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day...
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I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons. This came up today because I was trying to...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Druid Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid...
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Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid isn’t (just) a D&D character class – they're both…
ByteofDev
React vs Svelte: Which is better in 2023? React and Svelte are both prevalent libraries for creating user interfaces. In this article we will...
over a year ago
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React and Svelte are both prevalent libraries for creating user interfaces. In this article we will figure out which one is the better choice for new projects.
David Heinemeier...
Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024 The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success...
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The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success this past October in Amsterdam. Not only did the conference sell out more than 700 tickets in less than 40 minutes, but it was the atmosphere from those in attendance that really...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
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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…
MMapped blog
Flat in-order binary trees
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg A lightening talk on second brains and cyborg embodiment
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This is the second article in my achieving overnight success [https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
TokyoDev
Permanent Residency in Japan Getting a Permanent Residence visa (永住権, eijuuken) is a big accomplishment for anyone living in...
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11 months ago
Getting a Permanent Residence visa (永住権, eijuuken) is a big accomplishment for anyone living in Japan. It is one of the most desired visas that presents you as a stable member of society, and it affords you a host of privileges, such as not being restricted in what activities you...
Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
over a year ago
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
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The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I...
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I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I generally favor opting to respect user choice and provide the controls their platform does. Of course, this means platforms need to surface better primitives rather than supplying...
Making software...
Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Scraping my Twitter Social Graph with Python and Selenium Using python and selenium to find better follows on Twitter
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When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
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We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're going through all of them by hand and by human. No AI screening here. It's a lot of work, but we have a great team who take the work seriously, so in a few weeks, we'll be able to...
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
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Another trend I see from time to time on social media is the idea that images should have alternative (alt) text descriptions included in their metadata. Like a lot of things accessibility-related, the idea contains nuance that needs unpacking. At a high level, storing alt text...
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
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I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation: I wrote this tiny zsh function...
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I’ve witnessed this phenomenon across enough corporate Slack workspaces that I think I can speak to it with confidence. What is a zombie Slack channel? If you use Slack (or Teams, or some other similar app) at work I’m sure you’ve encountered zombie channels before. Zombie Slack...
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> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I think one of these assumptions which needs to be questioned is the initial few steps people
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I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
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When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market segmentation. In particular, you might be able to think about it in four segments Small Data – This refers to scenarios where companies have data problems (organization, modeling,...
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We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon; he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both. Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
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What launching Experimentation taught us about running effective A/B tests We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful...
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We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful experiments. It was a no brainer product decision…
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From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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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...
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A blue plaque for Hester In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical...
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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...
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I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful, its challenges and struggles, innovation engine, people, its organizational structure, operations, and its legacy. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is an excellent albeit slightly...
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Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and mockRestore(). Write clean test states.
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The Musk Algorithm Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book....
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Walter Isaacson's new book about Elon Musk is a fine biography, but an even better business book. And like all the best business books, it's not merely an instruction manual, but an inspirational guide too. Not since reading Ricardo Semler's Maverick in the early 2000s have I...
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Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
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A few days ago, Lea Coligado, a junior at Stanford, wrote about some of the sexism she's experienced in computer science. One of the things she mentioned was how wearing dresses caused her to be treated differently. I, too, prefer dresses because I find them much more comfortable...
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teleportation does exist from OR to recovery room I left something behind not quite a part of myself —unwelcome guests poisoning me from the inside no longer welcome
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Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast. Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
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Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
alexwlchan
The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me...
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I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here. It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing. Most of my...
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How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
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5 reasons as a CEO you should develop a habit of daily meditation * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Through my...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Through my journey from a founder whose role it was to essentially build the product and code all day, to growing into a CEO role with more management duties and a fast growing team of 7 people,...
Tinloof - Blog
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Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not tied to any specific style - Swiss, Linear-like, neobrutalism, a certain typography or color palette. Instead, we stick to basics that make our process smooth, please our users,...
A Beautiful Site
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A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons are most often found in the address bar of your web browser, but they can also be used in lists of bookmarks in web browsers and feed aggregators. Well-designed favicons are styled...
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Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git <![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
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<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository. Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
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Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
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This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see…
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It's not just me, then! I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I...
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I don't want to hapr on about Twitter's downfall as a medium for people to connect, but... as I mentioned a few weeks ago, the situation is pretty bad right now. For a while, I truly believed it was just me, but over the past few weeks I've been picking up a vibe fromjust a few...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * 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...
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Thanks React, I'm fine with an imperative setInterval Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with...
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Like many of you, I've read Dan Abramov's excellent article, making setInterval declarative with React hooks. It's a great introduction to hook thinking and gotchas, highly recommended to any react dev. But by now the insistence on being declarative in every hook ever has gone...
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
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Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
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I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
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While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack". This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1. It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
HTMHell
#10 <section> is no replacement for <div> Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display:...
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Bad code <section id="page-top"> <section data-section-id="page-top" style="display: none;"></section> </section> <main> <section id="main-content"> <header id="main-header"> <h1>...</h1> <section class="container-fluid"> <section class="row"> ...
Joel Gascoigne
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Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
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How to Design Almost Any Backend and Deploy It to AWS with No Code With the Amplify Sandbox, it is really easy to model and think through any app backend scenario
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Migrating a Create React App project to Vite Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It...
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Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It is great for beginners, as you don't need to care about configuring your toolset. However, I've encountered more and more limitations without "ejecting", mostly due to the...
A Beautiful Site
Stop trying to build the next unicorn So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy...
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So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy office building out in the valley? That's cool. By the same odds we'll both be rich, because I'm holding tonight's winning lotto ticket. Your idea probably won't be the next big thing...
Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
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A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many...
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What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time. For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
Tony Finch's blog
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Previously, I wrote about my cataract and its assessment at Addenbrooke’s cataract clinic. I had my cataract removed a couple of weeks ago, and so far things are going well, though there is still some follow-up work needed. timing My cataract op was originally planned for the end...
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...
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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...
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...
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I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some details on how it was created.
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Don't Rush to Simplicity Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the...
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Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful...
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For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools. I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
Sometimes It Works...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Dave posted “The time to unmaintainable is very low” about how pervasive this idea of “get up and going quick” is: I can burp some npm commands into my terminal, burp some more to setup a deployment pipeline and blam! Website. The time to product demo is so low. But there’s...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially those looking to relocate to Japan from overseas. To help people understand the current situation with regards to IT jobs in Japan, I contacted [every company using...
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Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
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samwho.dev
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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...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
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Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
On Life and Lisp
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English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Understand how context switching affects CPU registers, caches, TLB, and pipeline performance, and learn strategies to mitigate performance penalties
Liz Denys
Where books travel i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen...
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i I sit down in my premium economy seat, the abbreviated way of saying "economy as it was fifteen years ago, but at a higher premium," and deeply internalize my physical constraints for the next six hours. A small box outlined by my seat, the side of the plane with its tiny...
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It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
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Acrylic on canvas, version 2. On display in the Living Room at Saint Peter's Church for the Members and Friends exhibition March to April 2013.
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ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann’s awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it’s style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
Eric Bailey
Where do you put spacing on design system components? I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and...
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I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and standardizing things, as well as baking accessibility in at both the design and development layers. My very cool boss is working on updating our grid system, and with that comes...
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The value of "Yes, and..." I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use...
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I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use more frequently. I particularly took the “Yes, and…“ to heart. It is an excellent technique, or attitude really, that keeps the conversation going. Conversations often start slow but...
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Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my...
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Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites. It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier. And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
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X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure...
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Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon...
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An Annotated Guide to React Server Components React Server Components are a nuanced, sweeping addition to React's existing capabilities. This is...
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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...
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My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢 In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use...
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In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use to investigate and how I finally figured out the root cause. Memory leaks can be tricky to diagnose and having the right set of tools makes a huge difference. I hope my adventures...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
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I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
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Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over...
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I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
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For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I don&#x27;t shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
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How (and why) our marketing team uses PostHog We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and ...
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We learned an interesting fact recently: only 20% of our users track their marketing website and their product using PostHog. This is our fault. We…
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
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Radioactive film lenses and Geiger counter Kit Last week marked the ten year anniversary of the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami that...
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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...
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Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
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Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
Confessions of a...
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
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HTMHell
The underrated &lt;dl&gt; element by David Luhr The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
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by David Luhr The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized. It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
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...
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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.
Basta’s Notes
Read every error. You can't read every error. System stability is a steady state, not a goal
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How to migrate to GA 4: A step-by-step guide
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samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills....
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We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills. Let's take a break and look at some examples from real-world code you can find in use today, and how we might improve them. › Go's math/big package Most languages have a library...
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Organizing State of Diffusion++ I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed...
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I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
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Letters of Note
I’m amputating you It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera,...
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It was when she joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 that Frida Kahlo first met Diego Rivera, a fellow artist 21 years Kahlo’s senior who soon became her mentor and husband. Kahlo’s life up until then had been a struggle due to polio as a child and a serious traffic...
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Headlamps are better flashlights A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a...
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A brief and silly life-hack: headlamps are better flashlights. Most of the time when you are using a flashlight, you need to use your hands too. Headlamps solve that problem. They’re bright enough for most purposes and are usually smaller than flashlights too. There are very few...
Liz Denys
Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up....
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The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do...
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Uff, this is a tough one. I can say for sure — it’s possible, everything can be learned. I do […] The post How to stop thinking as an engineer and start thinking like a business man? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Direct Children Selector in Tailwind CSS (tip) Simplify your Tailwind CSS code by styling direct children from the parent element.
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Coming soon This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
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This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Origin of Online Handles There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example:...
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There are a few people online whose ubiquitous usernames I’ve always wondered about. For example: Jeremy Keith is “Adactio”. I have no idea what that word means. A quick internet search reveals no hints. Even ChatGPT has no idea. Dave Rupert is davatron5000. I wonder where...
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Homeownership Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or...
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Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks who live outside of major cities. And people...
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My Wild Security Head-Fiction My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I...
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My Wild Security Head-Fiction ¶My Wild Security Head-Fiction I’m not a security expert. I confidently believe I don’t have the kind of mind it takes to ‘always expect the worst’. I couldn’t be a threat analyst, defence strategist or CIA agent because I think you need a drastic...