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Steve Klabnik
What's next for SemVer
over a year ago
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What's next for SemVer

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The Codist
Puzzled Why Instagram Fails on Safari I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI...
over a year ago
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Puzzled Why Instagram Fails on Safari

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over a year ago
I wanted to look at Instagram to see if every art hashtag was still overwhelmed with terrible AI art, but today on Safari, all I get for every page is: It works on every other browser I have. But why? In the console are two errors, found and placed there
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Imports Under The Hood In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or...
over a year ago
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JavaScript Imports Under The Hood

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between the code that you’re writing and the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
In Defense of Hammers Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
over a year ago
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In Defense of Hammers

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over a year ago
Let's say you needed a multipurpose tool. Which of these would you pick?
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great....
over a year ago
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The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem

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over a year ago
Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great. Perhaps you're creating a new startup, perhaps…
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Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
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First Letter Pseudo Element

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over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
over a year ago
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Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce

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over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
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Sometimes It Works...
My Biggest Mistake… So Far My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right...
over a year ago
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My Biggest Mistake… So Far

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over a year ago
My Biggest Mistake… So Far or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity The Benefits of Being The Right Amount of Selfish ¶My Biggest Mistake… So Far ¶or: The Unlikely Cause of Feline Obesity Check out this video from a couple of weeks ago: Selfless vs SelfishDid you notice the...
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A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
over a year ago
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What is my browser? This tool will tell you

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over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
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Yale E360
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!" A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The...
a year ago
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"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!"

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here. Hey Nicole! At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Singapore H1B1 Tips > Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on...
over a year ago
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Singapore H1B1 Tips

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

over a year ago
> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on /r/sg](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7nflav/h1b1_visa_ama/) about 1yr ago. Please also read this blogpost from /u/omakaselife!...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Make Beautiful Gradients Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
over a year ago
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Make Beautiful Gradients

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over a year ago
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
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sancho.dev
Learning OCaml in 2023
over a year ago
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Learning OCaml in 2023

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
Choosing Languages
4 months ago
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Choosing Languages

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4 months ago
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Yale E360
Building a digital vigil for those we've lost This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is...
a year ago
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Building a digital vigil for those we've lost

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a year ago
This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...
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A Smart Bear
Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not...
a year ago
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Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine

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a year ago
Blogger with tens of thousands of subscribers launches a new venture… and gets only 2 signups. Not the advantage you thought it was.
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Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
over a year ago
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Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to hire first rockstar employee You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can...
over a year ago
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How to hire first rockstar employee

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over a year ago
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […] The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Yale E360
What's hidden behind "just implementation details" Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the...
a year ago
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What's hidden behind "just implementation details"

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details." This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
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Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
over a year ago
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Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React

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over a year ago
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
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Hixie's Natural Log
Deciding which bugs to fix Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it...
a year ago
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Deciding which bugs to fix

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a year ago
Software has an infinite number of bugs. How can we tell which ones to fix? I propose that it makes the most sense to optimize for people-happiness per unit bug fixing time, maximizing how much our effort improves the product for our users. To put it in mathematical...
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blag
Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a...
over a year ago
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Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition

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over a year ago
This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a publication error and how people on the internet helped me.
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Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
a year ago
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Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)

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a year ago
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HTMHell
Meaningful labels using ARIA – or not. If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an...
over a year ago
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Meaningful labels using ARIA – or not.

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over a year ago
If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an interactive control that has actual visible text, I could have bought Twitter! As a former developer and current accessibility consultant, it is my sincere hope that by reading this article,...
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Steve Klabnik
Using Crates.io with Buck
over a year ago
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Using Crates.io with Buck

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over a year ago
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Blog - Bitfield...
The magic function How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a...
6 months ago
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The magic function

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6 months ago
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.
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macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian...
a year ago
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Obsidian Freeform

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a year ago
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use Obsidian as my note-taking...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to...
over a year ago
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How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days

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over a year ago
Building wc in the browser From time to time I like to run wc -l on my source code to see how much code I wrote. For those not in the know: wc -l shows number of lines in files. Actually, what I have to do is more like find -name "*.go" | xargs wc -l because wc isn’t...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
3 weeks ago
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Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup

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3 weeks ago
In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
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Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
over a year ago
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How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces

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over a year ago
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Ognjen Regoje •...
BSL is not good, it's great Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
a year ago
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BSL is not good, it's great

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a year ago
Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source. Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go package for better guid generation The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is...
over a year ago
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Go package for better guid generation

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over a year ago
The need to generate a globally unique identifier comes up often. The way described in RFC 4122 is popular but it can be done better. I wrote betterguid Go package that does it better. Unique id generated by this package: is a 20 character string, safe to include in urls (no need...
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Epic Web Dev
Use Zod for All Form Validation (tip) Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
a year ago
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Use Zod for All Form Validation (tip)

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a year ago
Learn how to use Zod and Conform to validate and transform form data into sessions
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Max Countryman
Anatomy of the Update Email Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the...
over a year ago
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Anatomy of the Update Email

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over a year ago
Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the components of a well-structured email, we can bridge the gap and ensure effective communication.
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ByteofDev
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
6 months ago
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My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist

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6 months ago
JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and Suspense

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over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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37signals Dev
Introducing Solid Queue We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about...
a year ago
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Introducing Solid Queue

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a year ago
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Queue, a new backend for Active Job that we use in HEY to run about 1/3 of our roughly 18 million jobs per day. We’ll be moving more jobs in the coming days until we run HEY exclusively using Solid Queue. Besides regular job enqueuing and processing,...
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Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they...
a year ago
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How HEAD works in git

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a year ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me: 10% “100%” 36% “pretty confident” 39% “somewhat confident?” 15% “literally no idea” I was...
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Making software...
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the...
over a year ago
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Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal

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over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an "ultimate Raspberry Pi computer" by NODE and was inspired to create my own "portable" Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
over a year ago
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Notes on Time Management from a Dying Professor

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over a year ago
Notes on Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management
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Blog - Bitfield...
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
4 months ago
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Catching grace

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4 months ago
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
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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...
over a year ago
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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford

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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...
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The Codist
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
5 months ago
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Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts

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5 months ago
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Making Rust builds fail from YAML config mistakes I was talking to a friend recently, and zie1 lamented that a Rust web framework uses YAML for its...
9 months ago
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Making Rust builds fail from YAML config mistakes

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9 months ago
I was talking to a friend recently, and zie1 lamented that a Rust web framework uses YAML for its configuration. I'm far from one to defend YAML2, but dug in a little to understand zir issues with it: is it the trauma here, or is it something else? Ultimately, zie wanted...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Color Formats in CSS CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and...
over a year ago
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Color Formats in CSS

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over a year ago
CSS gives us so many options when it comes to expressing color—we can use hex codes, rgb, hsl, and more. Which option should we choose? This turns out to be a surprisingly important decision! In this article, we'll take a tour of color formats in CSS, and see which option will...
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Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
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The most valuable trait of great software engineers

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a year ago
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable software engineers.
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Charles Chen
To Comment or Not to Comment Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
over a year ago
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To Comment or Not to Comment

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over a year ago
Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
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Letters of Note
Am I really writing it at all? Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in...
over a year ago
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Am I really writing it at all?

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over a year ago
Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Know Your Tools > Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
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Know Your Tools

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over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 2 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Private-ish GitHub repos This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public...
over a year ago
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Private-ish GitHub repos

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

over a year ago
This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository. – GitHub’s “We updated our RSA SSH host key” blog, 2023-03-23 Once you git push, nothing is private. Private info in git only stays private on your laptop. But once...
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On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
over a year ago
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

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over a year ago
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
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Joel Gascoigne
The quiet pivot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6...
over a year ago
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The quiet pivot

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the last 6 months, we’ve quietly shifted the direction of Buffer. Our adjustment is now almost complete and we’re charging ahead with our new vision. It’s interesting to reflect on how we came...
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TokyoDev
Tokyo Rubyist Meetup ![Tokyo Rubyist...
over a year ago
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Tokyo Rubyist Meetup

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over a year ago
![Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzBsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--3303d10ebad28b15654bb8d6929ac263d91d1998/tokyo_rubyist_meetup.jpg) Last night's [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup] had...
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Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

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over a year ago
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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Jibran’s Perspective
Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
a year ago
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Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate

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

a year ago
Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
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Steve Klabnik
Rust is more than safety
over a year ago
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Rust is more than safety

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over a year ago
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Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics

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

over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
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Making software...
ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which...
over a year ago
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ET-Jekyll Theme

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over a year ago
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...
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Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
a year ago
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Death by a thousand microservices

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
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Oxide Computer...
Hubris and Humility When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for...
over a year ago
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Hubris and Humility

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

over a year ago
When we started Oxide, we knew we were going to take a fresh look at the entire system. We knew, for example, that we wanted to have a true hardware root of trust and that we wanted to revisit the traditional BMC. We knew, too, that we would have our own system software on each...
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Irrational...
Posts
a year ago
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Posts

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a year ago
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the singularity is...
Cruise NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years...
a year ago
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Cruise

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

a year ago
NOTE: this is not about the similarly named self driving car company, it’s a movie idea Set 5 years in the future. Scene 1 (the party): Our opening scene is a New Jersey houseparty, late college. Four kids lamenting the loss of their childhood. And it’s not just their childhood,...
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MMapped blog
Effective Rust canisters
over a year ago
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Effective Rust canisters

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over a year ago
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HTMHell
The search input: They almost got it right by Steve Frenzel This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for...
6 months ago
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The search input: They almost got it right

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6 months ago
by Steve Frenzel This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for users of assistive technology (AT). But it's also very easy to fix! It's the <input> element missing its dear friend, the <label>... 😭 Bad code <input placeholder="Search" /> It's...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Slow, flaky, and failing Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and...
5 months ago
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Slow, flaky, and failing

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5 months ago
Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.
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Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
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Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?

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over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
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Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
a year ago
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Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy

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

a year ago
Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
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elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
11 months ago
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Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here!

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11 months ago
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
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Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
a year ago
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Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

a year ago
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
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bt RSS Feed
Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
over a year ago
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

over a year ago
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.20.0 We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
over a year ago
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Array 1.20.0

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over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
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Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
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Overhead shower drips

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

a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a plunger will temporarily fix it. We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary wall sprayer both controlled by the...
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Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
over a year ago
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Craigslist Alerts with Python

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

over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
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Eric Bailey
Invisible success I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are...
a year ago
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Invisible success

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a year ago
I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because I think we went about making it the right way: Identifying an...
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alexwlchan
A script to verify my Netlify redirects I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be...
8 months ago
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A script to verify my Netlify redirects

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8 months ago
I’ve changed the URL design on this website a couple of times. The current structure seems to be working fairly well, but I made some dubious decisions when I started out that really didn’t scale. (Like having a single folder for all of my /images/ – of which there are now over...
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Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
11 months ago
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(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC

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

11 months ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
over a year ago
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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items

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

over a year ago
I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love

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over a year ago
I learnt a few things about Dynamo
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bt RSS Feed
Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky 2024-02-23 I often stumble upon large data sets or table...
a year ago
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Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky

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a year ago
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...
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Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
a year ago
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Incident, Inçident, Incidënt

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a year ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
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bt RSS Feed
Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
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Using User-Select

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over a year ago
Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
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Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
a year ago
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Immanuel Kant—What can we know?

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a year ago
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
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Alex MacCaw
The Toad
over a year ago
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The Toad

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over a year ago
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Sometimes It Works...
2023: The Rollercoaster Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal...
a year ago
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2023: The Rollercoaster

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a year ago
Job hunting Freelancing Side Projects NativePHP Spred Veliance & Laradir Streaming Personal Things This year has been quite a ride! 🎢 It's felt like the first real year since 2020 that things have been somewhat "normal". However, looking back, it's been anything but...
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bt RSS Feed
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
a year ago
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My Text Edtior is Not Open Source

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a year ago
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source 2024-01-02 I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
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Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
a year ago
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Ask questions first, shoot later

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a year ago
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Law of Conservation of Risk Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed
over a year ago
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The Law of Conservation of Risk

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over a year ago
Risk cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be redistributed
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Steve Klabnik
Five years with Rust
over a year ago
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Five years with Rust

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over a year ago
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Cognitive...
GPT-4's rebuttal to Uncensored Models I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to...
over a year ago
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GPT-4's rebuttal to Uncensored Models

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over a year ago
I asked GPT-4 to respond to my previous article "Uncensored Models" because it is more likely to provide civil discourse rather than the shrill demagoguery that my human opponents have tended to employ. I found it interesting and both sides have validity. But my argument is...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Software is What We Learned Along the Way Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not...
a year ago
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Software is What We Learned Along the Way

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Trent absolutely nails it: [the why is] where I provide the most value as a designer. I am not merely the picker of fonts, the dropper of shadows, the executor of deliverables. My greatest value as a designer lies in orchestrating the process and gathering insights — applying...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment...
a year ago
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Will write for food

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

a year ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
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Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
a year ago
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Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed

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

a year ago
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
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Blog of Simple...
Know your website’s Carbon Emissions - and how to reduce it
over a year ago
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Know your website’s Carbon Emissions - and how to reduce it

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over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive...
over a year ago
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Animated Card Tiles

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over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using “cards” or “tiles” to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let’s build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building (live...
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macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or...
a year ago
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Work hard and take everything really seriously

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a year ago
Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
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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
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A quick introduction to JavaScript Maps

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over a year ago
A quick introduction to the Maps datatype in JavaScript, and when to use it
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Hixie's Natural Log
Indexing into a string I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into...
a year ago
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Indexing into a string

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a year ago
I propose the following aphorism: Indexing into a string type makes as much sense as indexing into an integer type.
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
over a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2023

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over a year ago
The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Bitfield Institute of Technology The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school that offers remote...
a year ago
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Bitfield Institute of Technology

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a year ago
The Bitfield Institute of Technology (BIT) is a software engineering school that offers remote training and certifications in Go development to students worldwide.
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David Heinemeier...
Don't make Google sell Chrome The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for...
2 months ago
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Don't make Google sell Chrome

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2 months ago
The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses. Which mean we'll all be worse off as the web would lose ground to actual monopoly platforms, like the iOS App Store and Google's own Play Store....
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David Heinemeier...
The parental dead end of consent morality Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting...
2 weeks ago
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The parental dead end of consent morality

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2 weeks ago
Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're not hurting anyone, it's all good, and whoever might have a problem with that is by definition a bigot.  This was the overriding...
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A Smart Bear
Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can...
over a year ago
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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

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over a year ago
Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.
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Seldo.com
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
5 months ago
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What I've learned about writing AI apps so far

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5 months ago
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The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
a year ago
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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

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a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
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alexwlchan
Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step… Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and...
a year ago
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Monki Gras 2024: Step… Step… Step…

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a year ago
Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2024. This year, the theme is “Prompting Craft: examining and discussing the art of the prompt in code and cultural creation”. I did a talk about my experience of learning these new AI tools, and I draw comparisons to learning to dance. This...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application Translating user interface of SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is the best PDF/eBook/Comic Book...
a week ago
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Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application

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a week ago
Translating user interface of SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is the best PDF/eBook/Comic Book viewer for Windows. It’s small, fast, full of features, free and open-source. It became popular enough that it made sense to translate the UI for non-English users. Currently we...
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A Beautiful Site
The Future of Shoelace It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of...
over a year ago
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The Future of Shoelace

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over a year ago
It's been more than two years since the beta release of Shoelace 2.0, which was the first version of the project to ship Web Components. What started off as a fun side project has quickly grown to become one of the most recognized Web Component libraries in the world. As of...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why IaaS beat PaaS The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
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Why IaaS beat PaaS

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over a year ago
The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
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bt RSS Feed
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
over a year ago
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor

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over a year ago
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
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Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
a year ago
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Daily Inspirational Word

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a year ago
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Mocking and Using CRUD APIs with MirageJS and React-Query This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great...
over a year ago
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Mocking and Using CRUD APIs with MirageJS and React-Query

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over a year ago
This is how to pair two newcomers on the React scene for mocking and using CRUD APIs, for a great developer experience.
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Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
a year ago
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How To Center a Div

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a year ago
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
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Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
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Clip sharing with Overcast

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over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
over a year ago
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Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence

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over a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
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Grant Slatton
Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ) A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
11 months ago
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Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ)

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11 months ago
A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
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blag
Recurse Center Day 19
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 19

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
over a year ago
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Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?

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over a year ago
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Joel Gascoigne
Buffer’s evolution and expansion Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog...
over a year ago
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Buffer’s evolution and expansion

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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog post about the next step in Buffer’s social media journey. I described Buffer’s multi-product vision of the future, which included Reply and Analyze. This idea was such a
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Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
5 months ago
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The Inverted Reactivity Model of React

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5 months ago
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other frameworks.
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Grant Slatton
Every Man his own API A sociotechnological trend
8 months ago
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Every Man his own API

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8 months ago
A sociotechnological trend
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David Crawshaw
One process programming notes (with Go and SQLite) One process programming notes (with Go and SQLite) 2018 July 30 Blog-ified version of a talk I gave...
over a year ago
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One process programming notes (with Go and SQLite)

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over a year ago
One process programming notes (with Go and SQLite) 2018 July 30 Blog-ified version of a talk I gave at .Go Northwest This content covers my recent exploration of writing internet services, iOS apps, and macOS programs as an indie developer. There are several topics here that...
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Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel (part 1) This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive...
a year ago
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How to design an accessible carousel (part 1)

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a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts: In this first article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. In the second part, we'll focus on the development approach, walking you through...
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Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
over a year ago
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses

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over a year ago
My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
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Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these...
8 months ago
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ASCII control characters in my terminal

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8 months ago
Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII control characters Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 004: Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we’re sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
a year ago
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Dispatch 004: Universal version control and rich text on Automerge

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a year ago
In this dispatch we’re sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
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Computer Things
State and time are the same thing Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten...
10 months ago
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State and time are the same thing

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10 months ago
Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints.1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The...
over a year ago
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An Ode to An Event Apart

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over a year ago
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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Seán Barry
Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
over a year ago
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Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application

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over a year ago
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
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Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
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Hiring Executives & Bad Advice

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over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
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Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern

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over a year ago
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macwright.com
Hacker News Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
over a year ago
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Hacker News

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over a year ago
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise pretty minimal. try { if (document.referrer) { const ref = new URL(document.referrer); if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') { window.location.href =...
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Marco.org
The future of the App Store After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC...
over a year ago
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The future of the App Store

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over a year ago
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v. Epic decision, I think the most likely long-term outcome isn’t very different from the status quo — and that’s a good thing. Allowing external...
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Maggie Appleton
Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries Why there is nothing natural about the idea of 'nature'
over a year ago
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Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries

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over a year ago
Why there is nothing natural about the idea of 'nature'
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Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most...
over a year ago
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Digital photos and privacy

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over a year ago
Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
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Hixie's Natural Log
When complaints are a good sign When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
9 months ago
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When complaints are a good sign

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9 months ago
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices. These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Stop Being Fancy This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with,...
over a year ago
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Stop Being Fancy

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over a year ago
This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with, “Can this be done?” If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that. But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…" Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
a year ago
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“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL

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a year ago
Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
ChatGPT == Google News? ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of...
a year ago
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ChatGPT == Google News?

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a year ago
ChatGPT ingesting content produced by others and reproducing it, wholly, or in-part as a result of the model, is almost exactly the same like Google ingesting news and presenting it on the search results page. Actually, it’s worse, because it gives absolutely no attribution to...
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Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
a year ago
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

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a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
over a year ago
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Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?

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over a year ago
From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
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samwho.dev
I finally figured out how to take notes! I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking...
over a year ago
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I finally figured out how to take notes!

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over a year ago
I’ve never been good at taking notes. I’ve tried. Oh boy, have I tried. Name a piece of note taking software, odds are I’ve tried it. I’ve even tried going old school with pen and paper. Nothing sticks. Until recently. Some time ago, I learned about Apple’s Shortcuts app. It’s...
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A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
over a year ago
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Design Systems Aren't Cheap

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over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
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Eric Bailey
The lawnmower button As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated....
over a year ago
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The lawnmower button

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over a year ago
As the press deadline approached closer and closer, the man became more and more exasperated. Eventually, he wound up pacing in my cubicle, watching me frantically click on things. With the press running in less than an hour, he blurted out something that completely threw...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
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Counting to Ten

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a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten. Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.11.0 Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many...
over a year ago
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Array 1.11.0

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over a year ago
Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many bugfixes. It's all in this PostHog update. If you're…
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Eric Bailey
Zombie Slack channels I’ve witnessed this phenomenon across enough corporate Slack workspaces that I think I can speak to...
a year ago
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Zombie Slack channels

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

a year ago
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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Marco.org
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
over a year ago
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WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps

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

over a year ago
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right. Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
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Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too...
a year ago
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My spaghetti carbonara recipe

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

a year ago
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for 1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities. ingredients Rough quantities per person: 100g pasta Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
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macwright.com
Recently I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon...
a year ago
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Recently

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a year ago
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu. Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a remarkable live show. Distant Intervals by MIZU Reading I...
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Ralph Ammer
A quick beginner’s guide to animation To “animate” means to breathe life into things. In these 5 exercises we make stones come alive....
a year ago
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A quick beginner’s guide to animation

from Ralph Ammer [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
To “animate” means to breathe life into things. In these 5 exercises we make stones come alive. Preparation To get started I suggest this simple setup for you to try at home:  Ready? Let’s go! Thinking in time Stop-motion is simple: Take a picture, move the object, take the next...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
over a year ago
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released

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

over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows. Changes in this release: 2 page view for ebooks new keybindings: Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page 10x faster ebook...
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Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: August 2023
a year ago
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Privacy Monthly: August 2023

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a year ago
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Yale E360
Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work...
over a year ago
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Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work skeptical. Remote work existed (I've been working remote for most of my admittedly short career!) but it was not widespread. When I talked to recruiters at big tech companies they...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes From “You Are Not A Gadget” Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger...
a year ago
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Notes From “You Are Not A Gadget”

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget was written in 2010, but its preface is a prescient banger for 2024, the year of our AI overlord: It's early in the 21st century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons...[they] will be minced...within industrial...
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Words and Buttons...
A picture is worth a thousand tags This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer...
over a year ago
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A picture is worth a thousand tags

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

over a year ago
This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer tables or uglier pictures, but you can have something that is both at the same time.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
10 months ago
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Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.” Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.” And in...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
a year ago
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Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
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Civic Hax
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate....
over a year ago
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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets

from Civic Hax [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Intro This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any! In 2016, I did some work in trying to find some hotspot areas for parking tickets to see if a bit of data munging could reduce those...
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Steve Klabnik
"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited
over a year ago
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"The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)" revisited

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

over a year ago
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Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
over a year ago
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee

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over a year ago
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos A few quick demos of Inkbase
a year ago
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Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos

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a year ago
A few quick demos of Inkbase
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alexwlchan
Some small accessibility fixes I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides...
over a year ago
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Some small accessibility fixes

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over a year ago
I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides for a new exhibition at work. I like to think my site is already pretty accessible – I put alt text on my images and I use semantic HTML – but I did find a few rough edges to...
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Yale E360
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
over a year ago
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Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular. If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?" Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things. How we...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Cloud Distros The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
over a year ago
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Cloud Distros

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over a year ago
The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
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Vadim Kravcenko
What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
a year ago
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What does a CTO actually do?

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

a year ago
In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to increase test coverage FAST The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to...
over a year ago
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How to increase test coverage FAST

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

over a year ago
The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to meet their ambitious KPI of "20% more test coverage". Fear not — I'll show you a couple of neat tricks that will up your coverage game in no time, so that you can go on with your...
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Confessions of a...
CPython Memory Management Internals A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
a year ago
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CPython Memory Management Internals

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a year ago
A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
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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...
8 months ago
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A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress"

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

8 months ago
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.
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Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
over a year ago
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Must-have Windows Apps

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

over a year ago
Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net - Fast, lightweight image editor Foobar2000 - Fast, lightweight, music player (supports FLAC) IrfanView - Awesome, lightweight, image viewer for all formats Media Player Classic -...
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charity.wtf
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management...
over a year ago
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Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes

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

over a year ago
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mistakes. You are tired of reporting to a manager who isn’t transparent with you, who...
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Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
a year ago
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Old vs new case statement in Ruby

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a year ago
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The Changelog
Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked...
over a year ago
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Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile

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over a year ago
It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked Logitech Media Server (LMS, aka Slimserver and Squeezebox server) for whole-house audio and Ampache with the DSub Android app. It’s time to revisit that approach. Here are the things I’m...
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Joel Gascoigne
Plan or build? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse...
over a year ago
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Plan or build?

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

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I met with Jesse Nowlin [https://twitter.com/MrJNowlin] a few days ago, a great founder who’s really hustling. We spent some time discussing his idea and I shared some of my experiences with...
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macwright.com
Recently Reading Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers...
3 months ago
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Recently

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3 months ago
Reading Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of...
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A Smart Bear
How much of success is luck? "You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours,...
12 months ago
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How much of success is luck?

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12 months ago
"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
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Seán Barry
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
over a year ago
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Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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Yale E360
Betraying vim for the IDEs of March vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a...
over a year ago
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Betraying vim for the IDEs of March

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
vim is my text editor soulmate1. But I've gone and done a Brutus by betraying vim and using a different editor. And I did it on March 15th2, the Ides of March. Or is it the IDEs of March? The betrayal happened slowly, then all at once. For the past few weeks I've been ruminating...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
OSI Layers for Coding Careers Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
over a year ago
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OSI Layers for Coding Careers

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over a year ago
Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Neural Networks That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks

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over a year ago
That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
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the singularity is...
The Demoralization is just Beginning This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20...
4 months ago
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The Demoralization is just Beginning

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

4 months ago
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. I know there was a similar panic about Japan in the 80s, but Japan by population has always been 3x smaller...
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Marc Astbury
Retaining an MVP mindset A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements...
a year ago
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Retaining an MVP mindset

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements Team plans are a way to increase retention Team plans move upmarket toward users with more purchasing power Team plans are targeted at full-time researchers who have an ongoing...
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Yale E360
Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024 This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's...
a year ago
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Reflecting on 2023, preparing for 2024

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
This is one of those cliched posts: Reflection on the year that's ending, reviewing last year's goals, and talking about hopes and goals for next year. They're cliche, and they're also useful. The planning and reflecting process is a useful one, and sharing openly means other...
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David Heinemeier...
Paranoia and desperation in the AI gold rush I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI....
a year ago
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Paranoia and desperation in the AI gold rush

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the...
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Grant Slatton
Rohit Chess fun little board game
4 months ago
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Rohit Chess

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4 months ago
fun little board game
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macwright.com
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
over a year ago
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Recently

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

over a year ago
This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
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Blog of Simple...
European Facebook blackout is closer than we think
over a year ago
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European Facebook blackout is closer than we think

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over a year ago
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alexwlchan
Taking regular screenshots of my website A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks...
a year ago
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Taking regular screenshots of my website

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
A few weeks ago I was reading the DPC Bit List, an inventory of digital materials and the risks associated with their long-term preservation. What formats need urgent attention before they’re lost forever, what mediums are already being well-preserved, and so on. For example,...
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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
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Patchwork 04 · Diff visualizations

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a year ago
Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by section.
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Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
over a year ago
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Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

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over a year ago
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
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Ink & Switch
Keyhive 05 · Syncing Keyhive How we sync Keyhive and Automerge
4 months ago
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Keyhive 05 · Syncing Keyhive

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4 months ago
How we sync Keyhive and Automerge
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HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
7 months ago
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#34 a button is not a link

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7 months ago
Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
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Eric Bailey
Give me a definition for the word dashboard I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that...
over a year ago
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Give me a definition for the word dashboard

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

over a year ago
I finished up a research project a couple of weeks ago, and I'd like to share a detail that completely threw me for a loop. We were conducting user research with a demographic with a high degree of variability in both skill level and technological literacy. The common thread was...
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Eric Bailey
How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so,...
over a year ago
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How I grew The A11Y Project to 10k followers on Twitter

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

over a year ago
One thing I’ve been doing for The A11Y project is managing its social media efforts. Since doing so, I’ve slowly grown its Twitter followers to 10,000+. Now, before I get into it, there’s some things worth pointing out: This work was built on top of the efforts of the project...
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David Heinemeier...
Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to...
a year ago
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Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
As more and more companies, especially large ones, have started demanding remote workers return to the office, the competitive hiring advantage for remote-first companies is back. And it's even bigger than before the pandemic, now that so many workers have had a taste of what...
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Joel Gascoigne
It takes hard work. Do the hard work. * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve...
over a year ago
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It takes hard work. Do the hard work.

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
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Making software...
Better Box Shadows Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } ...
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Better Box Shadows

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over a year ago
Better Box Shadows 2019-01-08 .message { position: relative; z-index: 1; } .box-container, .box-container-depth { background: white; box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #eee; border-radius: 10px; margin: 2rem auto; ...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Ensembles vs Committees A useful dichotomy for team dynamics.
over a year ago
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Ensembles vs Committees

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over a year ago
A useful dichotomy for team dynamics.
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David Heinemeier...
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
2 weeks ago
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

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2 weeks ago
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
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bt RSS Feed
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the...
over a year ago
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Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari's Default Dark Mode Link Color

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over a year ago
Dear Apple, Please Fix Safari’s Default Dark Mode Link Color 2022-04-18 Supporting dark mode on the modern web falls under the realm of accessibility and should not be ignored. It is important and helps keep the visual flow of your content to match that of your users’ operating...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
over a year ago
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Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings

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over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
over a year ago
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

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over a year ago
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
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Tony Finch's blog
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes() A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
9 months ago
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getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()

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9 months ago
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy() which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting cryptographically secure random...
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samwho.dev
Bloom Filters .bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width:...
a year ago
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Bloom Filters

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a year ago
.bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 479px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 676px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width:...
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Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
over a year ago
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Compilers Copout

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over a year ago
Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
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TokyoDev
Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint...
over a year ago
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Announcing the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey

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over a year ago
I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint a picture of what life is like for international developers here, both to help people considering making the move here, and also for those already living here to better understand...
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Liz Denys
Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023 Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
a year ago
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Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023

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a year ago
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
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Steve Klabnik
80% of success is showing up
over a year ago
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80% of success is showing up

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over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
over a year ago
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking

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over a year ago
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Seven habits of bad interviewers I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes...
over a year ago
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Seven habits of bad interviewers

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

over a year ago
I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes further than that. Bizarre questions like “what’s the difference between a number and an array” are just a symptom of deeper issues. Let’s take a step back — why are we...
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My 2022 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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My 2022 New Mac Setup

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over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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Blog of Simple...
Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit
a year ago
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Google Settles in $5B Incognito Mode Lawsuit

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a year ago
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TokyoDev
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
over a year ago
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Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift

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over a year ago
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
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The Changelog
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP) A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
over a year ago
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A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)

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over a year ago
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
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Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
over a year ago
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The Importance of Learning CSS

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over a year ago
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
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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...
a year ago
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Why I retired from the tech crusades

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a year ago
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...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

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over a year ago
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
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Liz Denys
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
over a year ago
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing

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

over a year ago
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
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Maggie Appleton
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
over a year ago
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Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
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The Pragmatic...
An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools? GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the...
over a year ago
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An explosion in software engineers using AI coding tools?

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over a year ago
GitHub surveyed 500 developers in the US for a sense of how they use AI coding tools. I examine the results and add context on how the survey was conducted.
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David Crawshaw
Go 1.13: xerrors Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection...
over a year ago
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Go 1.13: xerrors

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over a year ago
Go 1.13: xerrors 2019-04-28 Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new .error inspection proposal The error inspection proposal adds several features to errors that have been tried elsewhere (in packages such as ), with some new implementation tricks. The proposal has...
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Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
over a year ago
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Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability

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over a year ago
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
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Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
10 months ago
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The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has

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

10 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
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Eric Bailey
Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall...
a year ago
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Workplace discrimination: another terrible thing Windows Recall might enable

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a year ago
Much has been written about the terrifying privacy implications of Microsoft’s new Windows Recall “feature”. Talking to even one person who works in cybersecurity, political advocacy, domestic abuse prevention, LGBTQ+ support, etc. would reveal the full, naked horror this sort of...
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Eric Bailey
Lighthouse Lighthouse is an open source auditing tool made by Google to help developers understand how well...
over a year ago
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Lighthouse

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over a year ago
Lighthouse is an open source auditing tool made by Google to help developers understand how well their site is doing in terms of four metrics: Performance, Best Practices, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Accessibility. If you’re feeling adventurous, it will also measure...
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Vadim Kravcenko
What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I...
a year ago
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What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done?

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a year ago
Dear JK, Congratulations on reaching this pivotal moment with your MVP. It’s an exciting time, but I understand it’s also […] The post What to expect from the dev agency after MVP is done? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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A Beautiful Site
Netscape support ending in February 2008 On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web...
over a year ago
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Netscape support ending in February 2008

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over a year ago
On December 28th, 2007, the Netscape Blog announced that AOL is ending support for Netscape web browsers effective February 1, 2008. This doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering the significant decline in Netscape's marketshare over the past decade to more competative...
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Eric Bailey
Improving the User Experience of IoT Firmware Updates
over a year ago
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Improving the User Experience of IoT Firmware Updates

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over a year ago
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Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
over a year ago
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What are passkeys?

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over a year ago
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
over a year ago
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My event-driven life

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over a year ago
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve...
a year ago
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How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up?

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

a year ago
Hey there, I appreciate your question—it’s a complex one that many startups, including those I’ve consulted with, grapple with. I […] The post How dangerous is over-engineering for a start up? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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A Smart Bear
Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However,...
over a year ago
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Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision

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over a year ago
Rubrics are often used to select the best option in a multi-dimensional decision space. However, they often do not clearly identify a winner, nor do they result in an explanation of the decision that is easily communicated to others, especially those whose favorite option was...
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Steve Klabnik
Four years with Rust
over a year ago
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Four years with Rust

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over a year ago
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Patrick Kayongo
Fourways Mall It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to...
a year ago
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Fourways Mall

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It’s Saturday at 1:37pm. I’ve been sitting in the 2nd floor parking trying to muster the energy to walk in there to do everything on my to-do list: buy bread rolls for the kids’ lunch, new school shoes for Khanyi, check on the price of a new iron, and maybe just maybe upgrade my...
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bt RSS Feed
Vertical Tabs in Safari Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build)...
9 months ago
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Vertical Tabs in Safari

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9 months ago
Vertical Tabs in Safari 2024-09-26 I use Firefox as my main browser (specifically the Nightly build) which has vertical tabs built-in. There are instances where I need to use Safari, such as debugging or testing iOS devices, and in those instances I prefer to have a similar...
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HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
over a year ago
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#20 HTMHell special: close buttons

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over a year ago
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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blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
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Accepted to the Recurse Center!

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over a year ago
I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
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David Crawshaw
The Tragedy of Finalizers The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, ...
over a year ago
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The Tragedy of Finalizers

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over a year ago
The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, lets you register a on an object. The finalizer is a function that the language runtime calls when the object is garbage collected.Gofinalizer Finalizers are deeply unsatisfying. They...
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A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
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Democratizing publishing

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over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage." In my opinion, these goals conflict...
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Ruud van Asseldonk
A float walks into a gradual type system
4 months ago
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A float walks into a gradual type system

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4 months ago
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blag
Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms

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over a year ago
I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
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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...
7 months ago
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The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests

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7 months ago
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...
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Tony Finch's blog
petnames and Zooko's fan Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to...
7 months ago
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petnames and Zooko's fan

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7 months ago
Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming. I have long been a fan of petnames, and graph naming systems in general. I first learned about them in the context of Mark Miller’s E programming language...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.11 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also...
over a year ago
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Array 1.0.11

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over a year ago
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also as you will see below we have added Celery…
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alexwlchan
Unexpected errors in the BagIt area Last week, James Truitt asked a question on Mastodon: James Truitt (he/him) ...
5 months ago
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Unexpected errors in the BagIt area

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5 months ago
Last week, James Truitt asked a question on Mastodon: James Truitt (he/him) @linguistory@code4lib.social Mastodon #digipres folks happen to have a handy repo of small invalid bags for testing purposes? I'm trying to...
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37signals Dev
Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of...
a year ago
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Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal

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a year ago
We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware February 2024

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a year ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
8 months ago
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Job Screening Blog Post

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8 months ago
Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
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The Changelog
When You Think You’re At the End, You’re At the Beginning Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. –...
over a year ago
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When You Think You’re At the End, You’re At the Beginning

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over a year ago
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. – Fred Rogers This is sunrise over Kansas. Or maybe sunset. I’m not going to tell you this time, because it doesn’t matter all that much. I love that it (if you don’t over-analyze it)...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.10.0 This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You have to try the new toolbar out -...
over a year ago
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Array 1.10.0

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over a year ago
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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Eric Bailey
Maralinga bomb test On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing...
over a year ago
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Maralinga bomb test

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over a year ago
On September 17th, 1956 an atomic bomb was detonated in Maralinga, Australia. The bomb’s testing program was codenamed One Tree, and utilized a payload comparable to the horrific Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The test was part of Operation...
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General Robots
Nailing the Demo So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to...
over a year ago
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Nailing the Demo

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over a year ago
So You Want to Do Robots: Part 9.   If you work with robots at some point you are going to have to do a demo for an Important Person. This could be a VC, a potential customer, an executive or a journalist
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Dan Cowell
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet. I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline...
over a year ago
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"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet.

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over a year ago
I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast,
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Maggie Appleton
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
over a year ago
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The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Robots.txt A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing...
a year ago
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Robots.txt

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a year ago
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
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bunnie's blog
Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure...
over a year ago
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Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon

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over a year ago
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure elements. But how do we come to trust our secure elements? I have been searching for solutions to this thorny supply chain problem. Ideally, one can directly inspect the...
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Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
a year ago
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

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a year ago
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
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macwright.com
On Web Components God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read...
a year ago
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On Web Components

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a year ago
God, it’s another post about Web Components and stuff, who am I to write this, who are you to read it Carlana Johnson’s “Alternate Futures for Web Components” had me nodding all the way. There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
8 months ago
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Using Talon in a game jam

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8 months ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in! One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse. I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too. When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
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Grant Slatton
Nobody Cares A rant about caring
9 months ago
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Nobody Cares

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9 months ago
A rant about caring
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alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
3 months ago
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Localising the `` with JavaScript

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3 months ago
I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
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The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
over a year ago
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The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools

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over a year ago
Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions

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over a year ago
It's not venture capital, that's for sure
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
over a year ago
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Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes

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over a year ago
James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
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Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
a year ago
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Things I Don't Know About AI

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a year ago
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
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bt RSS Feed
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
over a year ago
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line

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over a year ago
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
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Jake Zimmerman
Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet
11 months ago
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Generic methods cannot have non-generic defaults in Sorbet

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11 months ago
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David Heinemeier...
Back in the market (Sonos Edition) I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly...
10 months ago
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Back in the market (Sonos Edition)

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10 months ago
I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly amps for in-ceiling speakers, but also some Ones, 3s, 5s. All of it. Because it Just Worked when it came to multi-room music. Now it doesn't, and it hasn't for a long time, so I've...
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Yale E360
Integrate rest into your work and practice The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout,...
11 months ago
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Integrate rest into your work and practice

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11 months ago
The human body has limits, and we break down if we push past them. This can contribute to burnout, lead to stress fractures, or cause a host of other issues. We need to give our bodies time to rest so that we can heal. This is something we often resist, but it's essential. And...
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Steve Klabnik
About Crows
over a year ago
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About Crows

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over a year ago
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Computer Things
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics....
a year ago
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Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors?

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a year ago
Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am...
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HTMHell
Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨ With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
over a year ago
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Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨

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over a year ago
With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe. SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance The marquee element is an old...
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Maggie Appleton
How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
over a year ago
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How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts: Part I

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over a year ago
A case study showing how I make illustrations for abstract programming concepts
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Cognitive...
Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat....
over a year ago
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Rise of the Open Source ChatGPT Clones

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over a year ago
At first there was Open-Assistant, then appeared OpenChatKit, and the newly announced ColossalChat. Now three projects (that I know of!) aim to give everybody the ability to create their own ChatGPT clone. The basic components of a ChatGPT clone are: large language model as its...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
a year ago
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Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app

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a year ago
back to my personal weight lows!
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Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
over a year ago
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳

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over a year ago
::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
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Civic Hax
That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls...
over a year ago
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That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars

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over a year ago
Background In my last post, I wrote about my adventure of requesting metadata for both phone calls and emails from the City of Chicago Office of the Mayor. The work there - and its associated frustration - sent me down a path of sending requests throughout the US to both learn...
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Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
over a year ago
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Learn ESLint concepts, not rules

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over a year ago
What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
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bt RSS Feed
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some...
over a year ago
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Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux

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over a year ago
Launching Sublime Text with dmenu on Alpine Linux 2023-04-13 Everyone seems to be running some version of VSCode as their main editor these days. But not me. I find VSCode to be too bloated for my needs - not to mention being built on top of electron instead of native code. I...
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A Smart Bear
A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization...
6 months ago
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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale

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6 months ago
It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
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A Beautiful Site
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8 I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
over a year ago
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Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8

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over a year ago
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How to brand your startup so it isn't boring The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the...
10 months ago
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How to brand your startup so it isn't boring

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10 months ago
The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Failed Personal Site Redesign Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build...
11 months ago
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My Failed Personal Site Redesign

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11 months ago
Me a few weeks ago: tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build it, and then you hate it, and then you have to decide whether to ship it anyway or keep what you have As you can probably guess from the title[1], I decided to keep what I have and...
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A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
a year ago
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Stop saying "fail"

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a year ago
Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
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A Beautiful Site
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
over a year ago
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Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam

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over a year ago
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
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Yale E360
RC Week 3: Returning to Math The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine...
over a year ago
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RC Week 3: Returning to Math

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over a year ago
The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished. It is still flying by too quickly. Nine weeks left! This week was a whirlwind and really busy. I think I pushed myself too hard. I had just recovered from my cold and was a little drained, and then got my COVID booster and...
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alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
a year ago
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What is psephology?

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a year ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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Liz Denys
xoxo You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces...
over a year ago
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xoxo

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over a year ago
You and I meeting Places to experiment, learn, failure. But you and I - Places and spaces into moments and memories and bonds to hold onto beyond those polygons, yellow, orange, and red.
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bt RSS Feed
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
over a year ago
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201

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over a year ago
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
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Svelte for Sites, React for Apps Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
over a year ago
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Svelte for Sites, React for Apps

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over a year ago
Why we should stop trying to use the same tool for different jobs.
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Yale E360
Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things. They...
over a year ago
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Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept

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over a year ago
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things. They are used for different purposes. But ultimately, they are abstractions of the same thing. They might even be the same thing except for how they are used and the consequences for...
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Steve Klabnik
What comes after open source
over a year ago
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What comes after open source

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over a year ago
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Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
3 months ago
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We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking

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

3 months ago
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive A recap of my first ever conference talk
over a year ago
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TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive

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over a year ago
A recap of my first ever conference talk
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Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
8 months ago
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Writing GDScript with Neovim

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

8 months ago
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor. The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming. In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment. Today, I will show you how to use...
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Charles Chen
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
a year ago
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Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way

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a year ago
How Mastodon and the Fediverse are shifting the landscape of social media -- for the better.
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A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
over a year ago
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Selecting the right product metrics

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

over a year ago
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
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TokyoDev
The rise and fall of D&D in Japan In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
a year ago
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The rise and fall of D&D in Japan

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a year ago
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
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samwho.dev
Move Your Bugs to the Left We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping...
over a year ago
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Move Your Bugs to the Left

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

over a year ago
We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
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Steve Klabnik
Node
over a year ago
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Node

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over a year ago
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Yale E360
Fight Burnout, Go For a Run Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We...
over a year ago
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Fight Burnout, Go For a Run

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Here's something we don't talk about enough: burnout sucks and it can happen to any one of us. We need to talk about it. We need to know how to deal with it and recover from it. And we need to recognize that everyone can come back from it, stronger than ever. In the software...
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