Steve Klabnik
Ember.js and accessibility
7th Feb 2013
Liz Denys
When you don't have chocolate chips...
But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate...
12th Mar 2011
But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
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Three Jobs of Containers
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
Alex Meub
Windows 98 Icons are Great
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
26th Feb 2015
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing.
Why are they so good?
Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
Tinloof - Blog
Why we charge daily: Tinloof’s pricing model explained
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
6th Jun 2023
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
The Web Witch's Blog
My first two weeks at Igalia
After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home...
22nd Mar 2024
After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home after 2 years away from the web platform space.
There is so much new information about web platform projects to digest and I've been slowly figuring out how things work around...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
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...
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently.
Over the past few...
3rd Sep 2024
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently.
Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
A Smart Bear
How to hire people who are better than you
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you...
19th Apr 2026
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
charity.wtf
Choose Boring Technology Culture
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
1st May 2023
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
Confessions of a...
Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
3rd Aug 2025
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
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...
6th Jun 2024
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...
Kagi Blog
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
Google search is in the news.
29th Aug 2024
Google search is in the news.
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
Charles Chen
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP!
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
14th Mar 2026
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
The Web Witch's Blog
The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 11 March 2022
11 March 2022
Whoops. Here it is March already and I have not been keeping up with my Web Witch...
11th Mar 2022
11 March 2022
Whoops. Here it is March already and I have not been keeping up with my Web Witch Grimoire posts. A lot of things have happened since October and I'm not even going to remotely attempt to recap it all.
I've had a rough two and a half years. Not as rough as some, but...
Liz Denys
Podcast submission notes
Getting started
Web stuff & RSS
Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
1st Feb 2019
Getting started
Web stuff & RSS
Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts.
Some specific RSS fields
<itunes:type>: You need...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS
Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
3rd Oct 2024
Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.
Now you can deploy...
Sometimes It Works...
ASAP
ASAP
¶ASAP
When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as...
2nd Nov 2015
ASAP
¶ASAP
When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as possible” to the end. Here’s why:
What I think you mean when you use the phrase “as soon as possible” or, even worse, “ASAP”:
I really want this now or sooner. I don’t care what you’re...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
1st Nov 2023
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
30th Nov 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
Sedimental
What I've been up to in 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that!
The short version up front:
Since starting a family...
25th Aug 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that!
The short version up front:
Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley.
I've founded a startup.
After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit,
and a nice...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git
<)
Patrick Kayongo
Rhythms of Order
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
5th Oct 2023
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Working on a virtualenv without magic
2nd Oct 2016
Liz Denys
WWII watch cap crown shaping
Like so many other hat knitters, I've knitted the classic WWII watch cap, which is also known as...
15th Dec 2025
Like so many other hat knitters, I've knitted the classic WWII watch cap, which is also known as Beanie no. 212, more than a handful of times. (You can find it on Ravelry here and here, respectively.) It's a charming, quick knit that's easy to resize, but I've never really liked...
Daniel Immke
2018: A year in review
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
22nd Dec 2018
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle.
Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024
During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
Blog System/5
How "new type" helps avoid production outages
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
9th Mar 2024
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
A Smart Bear
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
7th Jan 2024
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Irrational...
Make no assumptions.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there...
11th Jul 2026
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down
to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon.
Translating this idea into software, the ideal codebase would...
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
1st May 2024
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
Sometimes It Works...
Code: Selfish
Code: Selfish
What it’s not
What it is
Be selfish
¶Code: Selfish
I want to talk about coding...
11th Nov 2018
Code: Selfish
What it’s not
What it is
Be selfish
¶Code: Selfish
I want to talk about coding selfishly.
This isn’t what you think.
Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
1st Dec 2023
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product...
14th May 2020
Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product.
Bad code
<h1>Product Status</h1>
<h2>Is the product available?</h2>
<div>
<h3>
<div>
<div>
<i>
<h3 class="message is-success">
It‘s <a>available</a>.
</h3>
...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
Contraption Co.
Before and after Almost Perfect
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka.
This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my residence. The first half was recorded on the first day of my stay,
TokyoDev
Japan Needs International Developers
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe...
11th Oct 2024
No one should be surprised that Japan, with its declining and aging population, is facing a severe labor shortage. A report by the Teikoku Databank states that across all industries, 52.6% of Japanese companies say they don’t have the workers they need. 260 bankruptcies in 2023...
Basta’s Notes
Doing versus Delegating
A staff+ skill
6th Aug 2025
Elad Blog
Leaving Delaware
This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
5th Feb 2025
This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
Vadim Kravcenko
Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned...
6th Jan 2023
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting […]
The post Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Boot.dev Blog
The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2022
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗
How can...
4th Jan 2021
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗
How can you decide what the most popular coding language is? It’s like trying to pick the most popular ice cream flavor - everyone has a favorite. The truth is that different coders prefer...
Patrick Kayongo
The vastness of the ocean
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl...
11th Feb 2024
The vastness of the oceancan't fit in my phone.The sand through my feetthe smell of the airthe howl of the breezehas nowhere to go. The pages of a bookcan’t fit in my phone.The texture of the pagesthe scent of the pressthe uncontested immersionhas nowhere to go. The tapestry of...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
Founder's blog
Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release...
23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever.
Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App
One of our most requested...
A Day In The Life...
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
7th Mar 2025
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
The Changelog
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
10th Apr 2025
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
4th Mar 2023
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
27th Apr 2023
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power.
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
28th Mar 2021
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
The Pragmatic...
A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave?
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
8th Dec 2022
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
wingolog
the last couple years in v8's garbage collector
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about , today I’d like to bring that...
13th Nov 2025
Let’s talk about memory management! Following up on my article about , today I’d like to bring that up to date with what went down in V8’s GC over the last couple years.5 years of developments in V8’s garbage
collector
I selected all of the commits to since my previous...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Generating a 12 Hour Youtube Video With Python
Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
12th Sep 2021
Making a video that smoothly scrolls through 70k Winamp skins over the course of 12 hours.
bt RSS Feed
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
5th Jun 2023
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
2023-06-05
VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
Maggie Appleton
Daily Notes Pages
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
4th May 2022
Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
26th Dec 2018
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
Lee A Johnson
Print Sales, Costs, And Profit: 2025
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1....
1st Nov 2025
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1. That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices.
This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re...
On Life and Lisp
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications
Exposure
Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for
facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
Exposure
Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for
facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by
exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth,
implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available
here in Toronto.
Wait –...
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...
30th Sep 2009
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The $100b Bull Case for Temporal
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b
7th Mar 2022
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
14th Jan 2022
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
wingolog
ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed...
6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel
The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel
itself:
Then run a quick check with :hello, world
Now give a check...
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
17th Oct 2024
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Language-Level Toll Roads
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
5th Jul 2023
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out.
Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample:
const kv =...
Vadim Kravcenko
🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day?
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
16th May 2022
You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […]
The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
charity.wtf
WTF is operations? #serverless
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC. I have a soft spot for...
31st May 2016
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC. I have a soft spot for well-curated single-track conferences, and the organizers did an incredible job. Major kudos to @iamstan and team for pulling together such a high-caliber mix of attendees as well as...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Writing a custom Codeception module
How to write a custom Codeception module and distribute it as a Composer package.
19th Mar 2014
How to write a custom Codeception module and distribute it as a Composer package.
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
11th May 2020
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
MMapped blog
IC internals: Internet Identity storage
12th Oct 2022
bt RSS Feed
CSS: Indenting Text
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
5th Apr 2019
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Neil Panchal
Neofetch – Server Administration System
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the...
4th Oct 2022
I ssh into a lot of machines. Dozens of times a day. I need a quick way to see the health of the system as soon as I log in and with zero friction. I am obliged to use the one and only tool: neofetch. Neofetch is a pillar of
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
24th May 2010
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic.
The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
charity.wtf
Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at...
24th Jul 2024
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over how out of touch and lacking in self-awareness they are. We hear a lot about the...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Apr 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...
Confessions of a...
Live Session on CPython Virtual Machine Internals + Upcoming Posts
We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
12th Apr 2024
We are long overdue for a new live session as well as some more articles.
A Beautiful Site
On Buttons and Links
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
6th Oct 2021
I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it.
Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component.
— Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021
At face value, I understand why...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
2nd Jul 2025
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen.
Why’s this happening?
I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
Buttondown's blog
Public descriptions for tags
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
3rd Feb 2026
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
1st Nov 2024
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...
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project:
start a new...
4th Nov 2024
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project:
start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser?
We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded.
It ended up having a lot of depth!
We...
37signals Dev
My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢
In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use...
7th Mar 2024
In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use to investigate and how I finally figured out the root cause.
Memory leaks can be tricky to diagnose and having the right set of tools makes a huge difference.
I hope my adventures...
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three years
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
2nd Jun 2025
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions)
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
14th Jun 2025
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
David Crawshaw
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
2021-12-11
What does backwards compatibility mean to...
11th Dec 2021
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
2021-12-11
What does backwards compatibility mean to me?
Backwards compatibility should not have forced log4j to keep LDAP/JNDI URLs
The other side of compatibility: being cautious adding features
There is more than enough written on the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
AWS Cloudfront SSL Cert
Setup an Comodo positive SSL cert on AWS Cloudfront
Buy Comodo positive SSL cert via...
24th Nov 2015
Setup an Comodo positive SSL cert on AWS Cloudfront
Buy Comodo positive SSL cert via namecheap
Inspect last years cert:
openssl req -noout -text -in tylercipriani_com.csr
Generate private key and signing request
You can generate a new key as a separate step, or as part of...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Mountains and Hills
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The...
16th Mar 2024
It’s hard to pinpoint where the cocktail Phakamani’s love, and fear of high places came from. The love may have come from the views he found solace in during his years of sojourn in Cape Town. From the upper campus of UCT, he would take lunch walks to Rhodes Memorial to escape...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Adding unpack syntax to RCL
7th Dec 2025
Nelson's Weblog
Toto C5 Washlet power usage
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I...
26th Aug 2023
I got a fancy bidet toilet seat. It works fairly well and having
water for washing is great. But I don’t love some details, see notes
below. Mostly I wanted to share how much power the thing uses.
About 80 Watt-hours a day, or an average of 3 watts. Note this is
without the seat...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
Sebastian Witowski
18 Plugins for Writing Python in VS Code
VS Code is a great text editor. But when you install it, its functionality is limited. You can edit...
27th Apr 2020
VS Code is a great text editor. But when you install it, its functionality is limited. You can edit JavaScript and TypeScript, but for other programming languages, it will be just a text editor. You will need to add some plugins to turn it into a proper IDE.
Luckily, when you...
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
6th Jul 2022
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it.
This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
Boot.dev Blog
What is a DevOps Engineer's Salary?
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay...
1st Nov 2022
The median DevOps engineer’s salary is $103,994 in base pay, with around $28,514 in additional pay through bonuses, commissions, and profit sharing according to Glassdoor. Salary.com estimates the average is closer to $125k, while BuiltIn puts the average closer to $128k in base...
Remains of the Day
And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at...
10th Oct 2021
It feels as if we're at the tail end of the first era of social media in the West. Looking back at the companies that have survived, certain application architectural choices are ubiquitous. By now, we're all familiar with the infinite vertical scrolling feed of content units,...
Irrational...
Judgment and creativity are all you need.
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human...
11th Mar 2026
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete.
Our database migrations were run manually, too.
Developing good software is very possible in those circumstances, but it takes a remarkable attention to...
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Early Stage Company Offsites
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
6th Oct 2024
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs:
The...
3rd Jun 2022
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs:
The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English.
I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity:
Over Memorial Day...
Coding Horror
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:
1....
4th Feb 2026
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:
1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.
2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications
Jordan Eldredge's...
[Multitrack] "That's Why I Love You"
I recorded an a cappella version of 'That's Why I Love You' by The Flamingos.
21st Aug 2009
I recorded an a cappella version of 'That's Why I Love You' by The Flamingos.
Maggie Appleton
Reverse Outlining with Language Models
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
8th Jan 2023
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
Boot.dev Blog
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
Eliran Turgeman
Why sharing a redis cluster across services is asking for trouble
If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that...
1st May 2025
If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that causes endless headaches, it’s this: a single cache cluster shared across services.
I recently shortly wrote about my lessons from building and maintaining distributed systems at...
Chris Nicholas
Building an AI toolbar for text editors
I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some...
9th Jul 2024
I've been experimenting with a floating AI toolbar, designed for use in text editors. Here’s some details on how it was created.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Eating the Cloud from Outside In
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
4th Oct 2021
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
markround.com
Haiku Package Management
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
13th Feb 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
Founder's blog
Clearing Nginx Proxy Cache for Wildcard URLs: A DIY Guide
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a...
2nd Oct 2023
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to clear the Nginx proxy cache for a specific set of URLs, particularly those following a wildcard pattern like www.website.com/folder/*. Surprisingly, Nginx, in its standard offering, doesn't provide a straightforward way...
Dan Quach Blog
Data Engineering Low Code Tools
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
3rd May 2023
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming
How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
1st Nov 2023
How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
25th Oct 2021
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development:
🔥 the burger button. 🔥
The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
Alice GG
Discord considered harmful
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation.
More or less everyone is now...
16th Jun 2025
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation.
More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies.
But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
A Smart Bear
Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
9th Nov 2025
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
Blog System/5
Whatever happened to sandboxfs?
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table...
24th Aug 2024
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents.
Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation.
This article describes how I...
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC"
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
18th Oct 2008
Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship.
In the...
HTMHell
#21 Legendary legend!
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button...
24th Jul 2020
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text.
Bad code
<button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true">
<legend> Industries Served </legend>
</button>
Issues and how to fix them
legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Neither necessary nor sufficient
6th Oct 2015
ntietz.com blog -...
Topologies of Remote Teams
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some...
23rd Aug 2018
When you're building or scaling a software engineering team, you naturally run into a choice at some point: will we all be in the same office, or will we do this "remote work" thing? There are a lot of factors that go into whether or not remote work will work for your team, like...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Just stop adding people.
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.”
– Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The
Everything Store
Slack...
28th Mar 2023
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.”
– Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The
Everything Store
Slack is a great way to destroy a workday.
You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a
few Slack threads.
But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
Boot.dev Blog
HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
18th Oct 2022
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
2nd Nov 2023
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing.
A lot of my blogging is quoting other people.
I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter.
But I...
Boot.dev Blog
Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
24th Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
Alex Meub
A Pretty Good Entertainment Setup
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a...
3rd Aug 2013
My entertainment setup is relatively simple but I’m happy with it. All my content is stored on a Synology DiskStation DS213 NAS with 2x2TB RAID 0 configured drives. This is hands down the best NAS I’ve ever used. It’s super easy to set up and the interface is awesome (all...
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
3rd Nov 2023
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Evan Jones -...
The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...
6th Jun 2023
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...
seated.ro
rabbit hole learning
Look everything up
Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from...
9th Mar 2025
Look everything up
Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from suprressing your innate curosity and let it go wild. Most of the time, you will encounter a term or concept that you do not know, instead of glancing at it briefly, go all in.
Google it,...
James Vaughan's blog
Writing an HTTP server in Prolog
11th Nov 2016
A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website?
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
27th Jun 2009
Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
home automation -...
Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens?
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about....
26th May 2024
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I’ll write a longer answer.Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Subliminal git commits
Luckily, I speak Leet.
– Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama
There’s an episode of the CBS...
29th Sep 2024
Luckily, I speak Leet.
– Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama
There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs
the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC.
In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”?
“Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
davidyat.es
Deprecating shortcodes with render hooks
6th Oct 2024
sancho.dev
Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs
TBD
12th Oct 2024
Epic Web Dev
Type Safety (workshop)
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch...
18th Feb 2026
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch bugs at compile time instead of in production.
Eric Migicovsky's...
What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
11th Oct 2024
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken.
I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
13th Sep 2022
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door!
Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
Basta’s Notes
Apologies and forgiveness
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
5th Sep 2025
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
TokyoDev
Q&A: The Reality of Labour Contracts in Japan
In Japan labour contracts mainly fall into several categories:
permanent employment (正社員,...
16th Jan 2026
In Japan labour contracts mainly fall into several categories:
permanent employment (正社員, seishain)
contract employment (契約社員, keiyaku shain)
temporary dispatch (派遣社員, haken shain)
outsourcing (業務委託契約, gyoumu itaku)
When signing a contract, it is vital to understand the...
Liz Denys
How to fold a mini-zine
Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment!
Fold...
15th Aug 2025
Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment!
Fold the printed mini-zine page in half, then half in again, and then in half again as shown.
When you open the piece of paper, each of the pages should fit fully within a set of...
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
11th Oct 2021
Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Steve Klabnik
Using buck to build Rust projects
13th Apr 2023
ntietz.com blog -...
In Defense of the Midwest
As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the...
8th Mar 2015
As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split:...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
the singularity is...
Critical Trade Theory
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false.
The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Drawing mandalas with JavaScript and canvas
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
2nd Jan 2015
Rewriting a PHP script from 2008 in JavaScript.
Alex Meub
Vibe Coding Tools are a BattleMech
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used...
7th Apr 2026
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used this analogy recently and I love it. It perfectly sums up the feeling of vibe coding for me. I can move faster, jump higher and it feels like a there is a whole new world of...
Epic Web Dev
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
2nd Oct 2023
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
Lee A Johnson
Limited Editions and Ticket Demand
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4".
If you’re not interested in buying music in a...
19th Apr 2025
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4".
If you’re not interested in buying music in a physical form you may well have missed that last Saturday (12th April 2025) was “Record Store Day” (RSD)1. A biannual event where independent record stores are supplied with releases...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
Engineer’s Codex
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
22nd Apr 2024
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
Evan Jones -...
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
19th Nov 2023
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
Elad Blog
Biotech companies I wish existed
While one off companies may exist, I am surprised there is not more biotech activity in these areas
20th May 2025
While one off companies may exist, I am surprised there is not more biotech activity in these areas
Sometimes It Works...
I love sharing these sorts of mistakes.
I love sharing these sorts of mistakes. Thankfully, I’ve only had a few gut-wrenching moments and...
10th Oct 2017
I love sharing these sorts of mistakes. Thankfully, I’ve only had a few gut-wrenching moments and they’ve all been largely recoverable.
The worst panic situation I had was when my hosting provider decided that after a single failed payment (through no fault of my own) they would...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
14th May 2023
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
17th Feb 2020
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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It’s been a...
15th Oct 2011
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It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why
that may be.
It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in
fact quite
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Date me
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
2nd Jan 2025
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
Charles Chen
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
3 days ago
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
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...
27th Sep 2024
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....
charity.wtf
Trolley Problems as a Service
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it? 💔 Ethical problems are hard. ...
30th May 2020
Consider: It’s not getting any simpler to live in this world, is it? 💔 Ethical problems are hard. Even the ones that seem straightforward on the face of them get stickier the closer you look at them. There are more stakeholders, more caveats, more cautionary tales, more...
Marc Astbury
Place Your Bets
Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect...
18th Dec 2024
Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect information. The Market Bet Your foundational bet isn’t just picking a market, it’s betting that you understand how that market will evolve. This bet shapes everything downstream: If...
Boot.dev Blog
Why should you learn Golang? [2026]
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for...
8th Feb 2021
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn. As an example, StackOverflow’s Developer survey saw it climb in popularity among developers from 10th in 2019 all the way to 5th in 2020. Additionally,...
Sometimes It Works...
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How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion
Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference...
6th Nov 2021
Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference organised by Altinity. It was a fantastic opportunity to…
charity.wtf
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama...
11th May 2017
Lately I’ve been doing some career counseling for people off Twitter (long story). The central drama for many people goes something like this: “I’m a senior engineer, but I’m thinking about being a manager. I really like engineering, but I feel like I’m just solving the same...
Sometimes It Works...
Finally!
I said "no"! 😱
The only offer on the table
I'm no beggar
I haven't been super vocal about this very...
17th Apr 2023
I said "no"! 😱
The only offer on the table
I'm no beggar
I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
Jordan Eldredge's...
?? "" is a Code Smell
Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
12th Apr 2022
Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
Steve Klabnik
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
1st May 2010
Charles Chen
Google Firebase with dotnet6
Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
24th Sep 2022
Find out why Google Firebase is a great platform for application development with .NET 6
TokyoDev
Service Introduction: Forkwell
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending...
2nd May 2012
One area I'm interested in is how people find jobs. The "traditional" way to find a job of sending out your resume to lots of companies and hoping for the best is clearly broken. Despite this, people all around the world, but especially in Japan, cling to it. So I got excited...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Book Review: CODE by Charles Petzold
CODE: The
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles
Petzold
The language of...
12th Dec 2016
CODE: The
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles
Petzold
The language of computer hardware and software is not particularly
well hidden in my experience. The more I interact with software, the
more those interactions reflect their makers and materials. This...
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
20th Aug 2019
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
Eliran Turgeman
First week of Byte-Sized Tech
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech.
My main goal in creating...
6th Sep 2024
It has been a week since I announced my telegram channel byte-sized tech.
My main goal in creating this channel was to read tech books. I wanted to summarize them to avoid just skimming.
It hasn’t gained much traffic yet. But, I hope it will resonate with more people so that I...
ByteofDev
A deep dive into distributed database architectures
Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
12th Mar 2024
Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
Sometimes It Works...
Slow Tech is Good Tech
Avoid the shiny
Avoid comparison
Some examples
Laravel
Build tools
Typescript and JS frameworks
The...
29th May 2024
Avoid the shiny
Avoid comparison
Some examples
Laravel
Build tools
Typescript and JS frameworks
The Web Platform
What I keep up with
This morning, I watched a video advertising a course aimed at developers. One of the first sentiments proclaimed is that of feeling left behind,...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Explaining git diff to myself
But try to understand
Try to understand
Try try try to
understand
Git’s a magic command.
–...
14th May 2022
But try to understand
Try to understand
Try try try to
understand
Git’s a magic command.
– Heart 💕
Once upon a time, I believed git was storing diffs somewhere. But
then I learned I was wrong.
It’s challenging to wield git’s clunky interface when you have a
broken mental...
Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch...
1st Feb 2024
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is
when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called
main) have diverged.
There are two things that make this situation hard:
If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
SOS
React.js: The Documentary
In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS...
12th Dec 2022
In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS by the good people at Honeypot, along with many wonderful engineers who also played a part in its success. The film focuses on the early years in the life of ReactJS, including...
A Smart Bear
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
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