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Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Sidebar on Meta-Knowledge IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible...
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IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) is a multidisciplinary project I’m developing to give people a tangible reason to trust their hardware. Above: example of IRIS imaging a chip mounted on a circuit board. When I set out to research this technique, there were many unknowns, and many skills...
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon? Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss...
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I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search: template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp> It lower_bound_skarupke(It begin, It end, const T&...
A Smart Bear
Disentangling the three languages: customers, product, and the business Stop talking past each other. Translate between the three "languages" of customer desires, product...
a year ago
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Cloud Distros The next step in the evolution of the Cloud is specialized distros.
over a year ago
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Notes from Amir Shevat on Measuring & Managing Developer Relations Notes from an a16z podcast about developer relations that I thought was valuable
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
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Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
Irrational...
Using systems modeling to refine strategy. While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about...
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While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer before I began my career in software. Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of...
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Array 1.0.11 Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also...
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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…
Joel Gascoigne
Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
orlp.net - Blog...
Breaking CityHash64, MurmurHash2/3, wyhash, and more... Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small...
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Hash functions are incredibly neat mathematical objects. They can map arbitrary data to a small fixed-size output domain such that the mapping is deterministic, yet appears to be random. This “deterministic randomness” is incredibly useful for a variety of purposes, such as hash...
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
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Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (or simply abiding in) dead air.
Posts on Nikita...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
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A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs BigQuery Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data),...
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Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data), but they have distinct philosophies and use cases…
Yale e360
What's "good" code and does it matter? I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back...
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I take pride in my work and in writing good code, and it's important sometimes to take a step back and ask: what does that even mean? And does it matter? At a high level, "good code" is code that is suitable for its purpose and achieves its goals. That definition is pretty...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
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It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
David Heinemeier...
Believe it's going to work even though it probably won't To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work —...
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To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work — despite knowing it probably won't! That sounds like an oxymoron, but it's really not. Believing that what you're building is going to work is an essential component of coming to work...
Tinker, Tamper,...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications (Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
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(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
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In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container 2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
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2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang: universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end. You could then write a small program that could fit this...
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...
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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...
Epic Web Dev
Mix Blend Modes (tip) Learn how to create a stunning text over image effect using mix blend modes.
a year ago
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
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over a year ago
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 10 · Beyond prose We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and...
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We experiment with bringing lightweight branching, diffs, and a chat-like history to diagramming and spreadsheet tools.
A Beautiful Site
Valid Names for CSS Parts CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web...
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CSS Shadow Parts, colloquially known as CSS Parts, are used to expose elements inside a web component's shadow root so they can be styled by consumers with CSS. But what are we allowed to call these parts? What characters comprise a valid CSS part name? To find out, I had to dive...
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The 8 Jobs of Management Recently, John Cutler...
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Recently, John Cutler [tweeted](https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1533661807029563392?s=21&t=WJORvdw2EyoLB1ChjQ8NpA) a chart on the view of management:
Eric Bailey
Formative posts Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blogs are good at communicating what you’re thinking about a specific topic, but not so great at the larger framework of how someone came to be in the headspace that lead to the posts they share. Because of that, I’ve set up a formative posts page. This page is a list of blog...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
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over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
Julia Evans
Some tactics for writing in public Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone recently asked me – “how do you deal with writing in public? People on the internet are such assholes!” I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years,...
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...
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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,...
Making software...
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it's a half-way decent copy...
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Introducing PostHog Cloud EU It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR regulations in the EU. That's one reason why we…
Making software...
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
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over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher 2021-09-23 I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
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over a year ago
Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
Yale e360
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the...
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It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line. This happens to me as much as...
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.
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Local Testing on an iPhone Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learn how to set up an ideal workflow for debugging your development server on your iPhone. This may not be the most exciting topic I've written about, but it's probably one of the most useful!
Maggie Appleton
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1 With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
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With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
Blog of Simple...
Add Google Analytics to Convertkit
a year ago
David Gerrells
how to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my...
11 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bouldering My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
a year ago
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
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For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
Confessions of a...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bring Back Short Stories There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books"....
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There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books". Remarkably efficient things. Always-on display. Could survive dropping from a great height. Somewhat fragile but who cares when you could mass produce thousands of the things for...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
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An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
swyx's site RSS Feed
JAMstack for Indie Hackers _This article was [published on Indie...
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_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
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I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
@levelsio and survivorship bias Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s...
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Pieter Levels is a prolific maker of software. He’s also very successful maker of software: he’s close to making $1.5 million a year from his business, almost all of it profit. Almost all of it is his profit since for most of the time he was a sole developer / marketer / copy...
the singularity is...
A Really Big Computer GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS...
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GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS (20e15) of compute, GPT-4 used 47.5 person-years to train. Very human scale. I want to build a computer capable of training GPT-4 in a day. I need 3e25/86400 = 347,000,000 TFLOPS, or...
Maggie Appleton
Speculative Calendar Events Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
a year ago
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
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over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
A Smart Bear
Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and" Luck always plays a role in startups, but there are ways to better capture upside and mitigate...
a year ago
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020 In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
The Pragmatic...
Inside Pollen's Software Engineering Salaries What was the compensation philosophy of the events tech startup, and how much were devs, EMs and PMs...
over a year ago
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
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Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
The secret to Rails OO design
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly February 2024
a year ago
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Skip to Content Button Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
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Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
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A Developer's Guide to Startup Fundraising A Brief Guide to Startup Fundraising Terminology for Beginners
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Building in public forces true competitive advantage “Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it...
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“Building in public” is increasingly popular. It’s fun to have strangers cheering you on, and it creates a self-imposed accountability. But doesn’t it ruin competitive advantage when your competitors can steal your source code and know the salaries of your employees and whether...
Computer Things
The Juggler's Curse I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1...
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I'm making a more focused effort to juggle this year. Mostly boxes, but also classic balls too.1 I've gotten to the point where I can almost consistently do a five-ball cascade, which I thought was the cutoff to being a "good juggler". "Thought" because I now know a "good...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
a year ago
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a year ago
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
over a year ago
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
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Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Maggie Appleton
How to Import Academic Papers from Zotero into Tana How to use Zotero's translator and Tana Paste formatting to easily import papers into Tana
5 months ago
Ink & Switch
Open-sourcing Keyhive, filtering Ambsheets, and Sketchpad explorations Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about...
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Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about filtering scenarios in a spreadsheet, and some explorations of the historic Sketchpad project for constraint-based drawing.
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Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free....
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Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering…
Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Blog - Bitfield...
Things fall apart The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but...
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The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
Eric Bailey
Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets That’s it, that’s the post.
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Only use GET and POST (tip) Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and...
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a year ago
Learn about the limitations of using HTTP methods other than GET and POST for form submissions and how it can affect the user experience.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Public Engineering Career Ladder A list of the public engineering career ladders I've found
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to write a Python Twitter Unfollow Script in 2022 The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still...
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over a year ago
The Twitter API has changed (from v1 to v2), and Python has gone from 2 to 3, and Google is still serving up loads of outdated results.
Vadim Kravcenko
Why software projects fail Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
alexwlchan
The best way to tell a website your age There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
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There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online. Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
Elad Blog
Back to the office Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
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over a year ago
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
ByteofDev
Replacing Disqus Commenting Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent...
a year ago
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a year ago
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
Josh Comeau's blog
Accessible Animations in React I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
MMapped blog
The plan-execute pattern
a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
That boolean should probably be something else One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean...
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One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should...
Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
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I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
over a year ago
David Crawshaw
COPY Relocations "put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y()...
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"put the address of symbol X inside symbol Y at offset O" $ cat symY.c void x(); void y() { x(); } $ cc -c symY.c $ readelf -r symY.o Relocation section '.rela.text' at offset 0x518 contains 1 entries: Offset Info Type Sym. Value Sym. Name +...
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A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer...
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Last week, we presented in Rails World an upcoming addition to Turbo that uses morphing to offer smoother page updates and a simplified broadcasting system. This is the article version of the presentation I delivered. The starting point The traditional server-side full-page...
Irrational...
How to plan as an engineering executive. Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question...
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Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an oft heard perspective that planning is some sort of business curse word. Even when...
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Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
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Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
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How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
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Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
A Beautiful Site
How to File a Bug Report They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal...
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They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution. When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
Liz Denys
Dan dan mian, the clearly Not Chinese way Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This...
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Once upon a time, I stumbled across a reasonably accurate Szechuan recipe for dan dan mian. This isn't it. In fact, I've never actually made it because I couldn't acquire all of the ingredients without going out of my way. Also, I don't really like committing to making a certain...
Tinloof - Blog
Tinloof design principles Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not...
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Tinloof focuses on key principles to consistently create pleasant and practical designs. We're not tied to any specific style - Swiss, Linear-like, neobrutalism, a certain typography or color palette. Instead, we stick to basics that make our process smooth, please our users,...
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The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
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We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
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Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
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Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
Eric Bailey
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
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I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
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The most interesting GDPR fines
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Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
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Remembering Charles Beeler We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away...
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We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon; he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both. Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
Epic Web Dev
The Difference Between Clearing, Resetting, and Restoring Mocks (article) Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and...
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Understand the key differences between mock state management methods: mockClear(), mockReset(), and mockRestore(). Write clean test states.
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Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
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We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of...
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I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
TokyoDev
Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
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It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 001: On Embark and Lude Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish...
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Some of you have expressed an interest in knowing more about what’s going on at the lab—wish granted! In this first dispatch, we want to share some of our recent work on Malleable Software with Embark, talk a bit about our Researchers-in-Residence program, and introduce you to...
Eric Bailey
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size
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Eric Bailey
Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start?...
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Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start? This is a kind of experience I call “Beholden Design.” Full of Dark Patterns and pain, Beholden Design is the evil, goatee-wearing twin of Universal Design. It forces people to...
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[Course Launch] Hands-on Introduction to X86 Assembly A Live, Interactive Course for Systems Engineers
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Sept 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
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Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogs Bottom Line Up Front: You are probably underestimating how much goes into blogging technology these...
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How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
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The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here! This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
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This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
Making software...
A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave...
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don't Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door... I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website's CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It's pretty amazing to see the problems...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
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Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Flexbox When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible...
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When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do...
charity.wtf
On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
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A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
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Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see...
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Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
Charles Chen
A Conceptual Model of State in Vue 3.4 A guide to understanding how to think about state and components in Vue with the game changing...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Meeting philosophy Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if...
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Decline meetings aggressively. Always try to resolve issues by e-mail or chat first if possible. Decline any meeting without an explicit agenda (I make exceptions for my immediate manager). Decline any meeting where the agenda doesn't seem relevant to your work. Decline any...
Steve Klabnik
Rust's Golden Rule
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The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
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I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
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Building an open source data stack At PostHog, we believe an open source approach doesn’t just lead to greater growth; it also leads to...
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At PostHog, we believe an open source approach doesn’t just lead to greater growth; it also leads to better products. That’s what inspired us to make…
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
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A Beautiful Site
Finding the active element in a shadow root You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this...
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You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this will be the host element. This happens because of retargeting, but sometimes you might need access to the internal element that actually has focus. Here's a recursive function that...
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
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For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
Seán Barry
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Spelunking desktop apps saves time Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the...
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the bookmarks plist 2. Update the Tower database 3. Open Tower Lessons ¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time ¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
Charles Chen
Merging Objects in Google Cloud Storage with Compose and C# Manage large sets of data using a nifty feature of Google Cloud Storage
11 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
How my co-founder and I structure ourselves as CEO and COO * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two years of Buffer we didn’t use C-level titles [https://soundcloud.com/joelgascoigne/thoughts-on-cxo-titles-in]. In February last year it started to make much more sense for me to...
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
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After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
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The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s...
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I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance. It’s essentially server-side logging with a dashboard on top, and it’s more than sufficient for the very limited analytics I want to do here. One of the dashboard panels is “resources not...
macwright.com
Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
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A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...
Steve Klabnik
The Little Coder's Predicament
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A Beautiful Site
An Event Apart, Boston The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I...
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The plane took off from Orlando as I sat half asleep in my seat. With my laptop at my feet, I wondered what kind of intriguing things I would learn at the web conference I had signed up for. I anticipated this day for months now and it was finally here. I was on my way to An...
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Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
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Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
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The Big Cloud Exit FAQ Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete...
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Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month...
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳 ::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture...
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::[ ] Threaded MapApply FeatureImpactPlot IntegrateChangeVariables ReconstructionMesh VideoCapture RootTree ImplicitD “ExprStruct” ChemicalConvert UniqueElements ReplaceAt TypeEvaluate TreeLeafCount QuestionSelector IncludeSingularSolutions KernelConfiguration PhongShading...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of... I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, May 2023 The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I...
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The Ware for May 2023 is shown below. This is yet another fine ware contributed by jackw01. I suspect this one may be guessed quite quickly, but I’ll leave one hint anyways: there is more than one board in this assembly.
Maggie Appleton
A Fruitful Guide to JavaScript's Comparison Operators Illustrated notes on how JavaScript's comparison operators work
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn’t show just how complex (in a...
The Pragmatic...
Meta’s historic growth challenge The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position...
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over a year ago
The company’s growth is under more pressure than it has ever been, and in a worse strategic position than Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Why is this and what can the company do to get out of this situation?
Tony Finch's blog
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
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One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
Maggie Appleton
A Naïve Exploration of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Notes on the academic field of CSCL and major papers in the discipline
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Ouroboros
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
GDPR and fines: all there is to know
9 months ago
Making software...
Improving Receipt UX Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
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over a year ago
Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further. What was the...
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
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I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
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RSS Hacks With XSLT 2022-05-23 In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I’m writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
alexwlchan
How I name my computers I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the...
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I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it. I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine. There’s one hard part of...
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
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i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2024 Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s...
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a year ago
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s some photos that give a better idea of what the device is about. Above are the main parts of the device. The construction is simple and straightforward: big battery, screen with...
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Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data Everything you need to know about what API's are and how they work
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HTMHell
What is the Difference Between Alternative Text, Long Description, and Caption? When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and...
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over a year ago
When it comes to adding images on the web, you need to consider how to make them accessible and understandable to everyone. Which means you need to include text alternatives to describe the image information or function. Three options are: Alternative Text Long...
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Open source (and self-hosted) alternatives to Hotjar & FullStory Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture....
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Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
HTMHell
The Implied Web by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get...
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a year ago
by Halvor William Sanden People don’t need call-to-action buttons. Interface elements made to get attention and herd people towards clicks increase cognitive effort because they obscure themselves and reduce interfaces to clickable surfaces. The implied web is based on the idea...
macwright.com
Val.town Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
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Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
Vadim Kravcenko
Mental Health in Software Engineering Question: Answer: The post Mental Health in Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
JavaScript functions for basename and dirname Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path)...
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Here are two JavaScript functions that mimic their PHP cousins. basename() # function basename(path) { return path.replace(/.*\//, ''); } dirname() # function dirname(path) { return path.match(/.*\//); } Unlike their PHP cousins, these functions do not support paths...
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
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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
over a year ago
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...
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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...
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
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After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023 It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
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The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
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While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace. But that had me asking: why is it...
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Turbo 8 released We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
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We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board. Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8: Morphing...
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!? At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
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At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
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An HTML structure for a tab component by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
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by Marco Bretschneider Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I. As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
Eric Bailey
The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
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If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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A demo notefile for WebCard <![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
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<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file that stores the data of a NoteCards hypertext. The notefile WCDEMO.NOTEFILE contains exmples of Web cards filed into various types of containers and cards such as fileboxes and Text...
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Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
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Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and...
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In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3
Making software...
Dynamic Checkboxes Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
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Dynamic Checkboxes 2019-07-30 Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you're selecting a pricing plan during a site's sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
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Your Site's Calling Card > Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
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> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
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HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle" Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Self-driving is finally happening I still remember how the car industry got all excited back in 2017 about how steering wheels would...
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I still remember how the car industry got all excited back in 2017 about how steering wheels would soon be obsolete. Every concept car then was a living room on wheels, seats facing inwards. The self-driving revolution was imminent, they said. Well, it wasn't... but now it...
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How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
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Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
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Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
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Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet The problem Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
Steve Klabnik
Twitter ghosts
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Epic Web Dev
Exploring the has Utility in Tailwind CSS (tip)
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 007: Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
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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...
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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...
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Staying Ahead of Amazon, in Amazon Treasure Hunt Contest With a simple Man In The Middle (MITM) attack, I tried to cheat(?) one of Amazon India’s contest.
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
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I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
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Password protection using .htaccess and .htpasswd The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and...
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The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd files. .htpasswd # Create a text file with the following text: username:password The usernames and passwords are stored in this file, one per line, separated by a colon. To...
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
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Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the "golden age" in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
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Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
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As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
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Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
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I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
David Heinemeier...
We’re so back Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There...
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Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
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I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
Steve Klabnik
The CLOSURE companion
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Max Countryman
Is Deno Ready for Primetime? Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin...
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Deno is a new JavaScript runtime that offers an excellent set of modern features, including builtin TypeScript and a support for existing Node modules. However when it comes to using it in a real application, does it live up to its promises?
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
over a year ago
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What we learned about hiring from our first five employees Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five...
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Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five hires PostHog ever made, how we made them, and why…
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The Perfect Restaurant This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
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Maggie Appleton
Programmable Notes Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows
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The Codist
I Learned How To Program 50 Years Ago In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer...
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In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer programming. This class was rare for its time, as there were few computers in the world accessible for students, and most people had no idea what they could do other than seeing HAL
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is now for sale After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is...
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After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment of Truth where we get to see whether all that excitement turns into credit card swipes. That release rush. I love it. And I especially love...
Eric Bailey
Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight....
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Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight. I’m a big fan. It freed us from the tyranny of passive aggressive email chains, and when practiced with good etiquette quickly became my favorite way of communicating via text at...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on...
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Setting Up AdGuard Home with Eero 2022-11-04 Eariler this year I posted detailed instructions on setting up Pi-Hole with Eero and it seemed to help out a few people having troubles. With AdGuard Home recently popping up on the frontpage of HackerNews, I thought now would be a...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Pen-driven symbolic programming An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using...
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An important way of expressing relationships that aren’t easily expressed visually is by using formulas. We want a way of inputting formulas that is as “pen-driven” as possible.
Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
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It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article) React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
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React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Writing raft ✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all...
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✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King, “On Writing” In 2022, I made a Ulysses pact to force myself to write—either write or feel the white-hot shame of (temporary)...
Alex Meub
Must-have Windows Apps Notepad++ - Best text-editor ever Cygwin/mintty - Awesome linux environment on windows Paint.net -...
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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 -...
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
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Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
David Heinemeier...
Rails World and Rails 8 in 2024 The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success...
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The first major Rails conference on the European continent in over a decade was a smashing success this past October in Amsterdam. Not only did the conference sell out more than 700 tickets in less than 40 minutes, but it was the atmosphere from those in attendance that really...
Maggie Appleton
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
over a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
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Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
bt RSS Feed
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about...
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest...
David Crawshaw
Searching the Creative Internet Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the...
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Searching the Creative Internet I had of late been lamenting the loss of the internet of the 1990s. A place where everything was obscure or new. If you saw something mainstream like a Disney princess, it was because someone had taken the time to handcraft an ASCII art...
Eric Bailey
My typical day Hidde kindly nominated me to write one of the “typical day” posts that have been making the blogging...
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Hidde kindly nominated me to write one of the “typical day” posts that have been making the blogging rounds. I’ve been enjoying reading them, as they give a nice look into how other people are holding up in quarantine. I’m also all about demystifying things. Here’s my daily...
Blog of Simple...
How to export data from Google Analytics
a year ago
alexwlchan
We all lose when art is anonymised One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of...
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One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of art. This sounds simple, but it’s often quite difficult. The Internet is a maze of social media accounts that only exist to repost other people’s art, usually with minimal or non-existent...
bt RSS Feed
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It’s 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the...
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Write HTML Like It’s 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it’s safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer’s life easier....
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Don't write Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
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Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people. We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content. So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
A Beautiful Site
Importing plain CSS files with Sass When I first started using Sass, there was one thing that drove me crazy about it compared to Less....
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When I first started using Sass, there was one thing that drove me crazy about it compared to Less. For some reason, including a plain CSS file just wasn't something the compiler wanted to do: /* Uncaught, unspecified "error" event. (Ignoring local @import of "animate.min.css" as...
Blog - Bitfield...
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
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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.
The Changelog
The Hidden Drawbacks of P2P (And a Defense of Signal) Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some...
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Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a...
Contraption Co.
Internal tools of Find AI Technical presentation at an AI meetup
9 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why we ditched ‘talk to sales’ for transparent pricing "I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that...
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"I wonder how much this SaaS product costs to..." "Contact sales!" 😤 Contact. Sales. Two words that embody everything we hate about modern SaaS…
Yale e360
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
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One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
Kevin Chen
Tearing down the Rewind app Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
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Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
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On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time...
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from? This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
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This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting. On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my computer get the time from? The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough and...
Stephen Wolfram...
Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
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The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
Marco.org
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
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Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
Liz Denys
It's a piece of cake to bake a SIPB cake Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes,...
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Given four batches of a dark chocolate cake for two circular layer cakes and two small loaf cakes, vanilla buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring, homemade white vanilla fondant, homemade black chocolate fondant, a bread knife to carve shoes...
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
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I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
Irrational...
How to get better at strategy? One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben,...
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One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben, who describes his path to becoming wealthy as, “When I was seventeen, I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.” I wish I could...
somenice
Hummingbird at the feeder With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not...
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With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
Cognitive...
Built with Dolphin I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a...
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I started to understand that a lot of people are using and enjoying Dolphin - so I decided to put a list here of products or projects that use Dolphin. If you would like to be listed here please reach out to me and I'll add...
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Introducing Collaboration for PostHog PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more...
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PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your…
Daniel Marino
Free Radon album released A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
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A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music. I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
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The Bear Manifesto An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform
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Alex Meub
Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully...
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Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully controllable from a web browser. It’s something a 6th grader would have thought was a good use of time, but for some reason as a dad in my thirties, I spent the last several months...
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
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Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
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Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
Coding Horror
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core...
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When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I'm not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We were...
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
Alex MacCaw
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
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In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
The Codist
I Have To Fix Broken Things Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes,...
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Call it a character flaw or a character benefit—I hate being around broken code, processes, products, or UI. If it's broken, I want to fix it. If I can't, it grates on me. After I graduated from college, my parents, a friend, and his
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How an investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last week I had the great pleasure of grabbing dinner with Jon Bradford [http://twitter.com/jd], and having him stop over at my place on his way to speak on a panel at an event in Jerusalem. The...
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For what it'll make of you I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
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I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
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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...
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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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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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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...
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Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many...
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Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases. In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order. While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
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The Product-Market Fit Game In a startup, the only objective that matters before you have product-market fit, is finding ...
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In a startup, the only objective that matters before you have product-market fit, is finding product-market fit. Knowing when you've found it…
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A story about pivots PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year,...
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PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
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How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020) One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term...
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One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term and short-term problems. Your software might be struggling to scale with ramping user load while also knowing that you have a series of meaningful security vulnerabilities that...
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Concurrent locks and MultiXacts in Postgres Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by...
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Pretty recently, I was troubleshooting a performance issue in a production Rails app backed by Postgres. There was this one class of query that would get slower and slower over the course of about an hour. The exact pathology is a tale for another time, but the investigation led...
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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
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How to not rely on rubygems.org for development
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The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same....
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Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable...
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Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable to a cognitive bias known as results-oriented thinking. But to optimize for success, we should avoid this bias and strive to replace it with sound strategy.
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Retaining an MVP mindset A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements...
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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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The Subversive Hyperlink The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an...
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The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing. I send you a link and as long as you have an agent, i.e. a browser (or a mere HTTP client), you can access the content at that link. This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of...
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How could you make a scalable online geospatial editor? by I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not...
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I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not founding another geo startup anytime soon. I’d love to found another bootstrapped startup eventually, but geospatial is hard. Anyway, geospatial data is big, which does not combine well...
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Getting people to tell you you're wrong One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you. They trust you...
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One of the challenging things about being a staff+ engineer is that people trust you. They trust you a lot, and there might be less pushback on ideas than there should be. This makes sense. To become a staff+ engineer, you usually need to be really good at this intersection of...
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Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 1
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Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
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As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […] The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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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,...
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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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Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
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It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
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Martha the Pilot Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
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Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...
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Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
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Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
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New year, new calendar We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
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We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉 See, it turns out that lots of people would...
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Dare to connect a server to the internet The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest...
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The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days. That without their rarified expertise, you’ll be left vulnerable. So best just to leave ever-more of your burdens to...
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Making software...
Width or Flex-Basis? Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
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Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
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...
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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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100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
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Resurrected link log After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page,...
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After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page, https://dotat.at/:/, my link log is shared via: an Atom feed https://dotat.at/:/feed.atom the fediverse https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf Dreamwidth...
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Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of...
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly,...
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Apple is Listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant...
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Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
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PostHog is now available on Segment! We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a...
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We're happy to announce that PostHog is now available as a destination on Segment. Segment is a platform that works as an integrated data pipeline to…
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Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many...
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I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many miserable days in the throes of sneezing, headache, and runny eyes. I tried everything the doctors recommended for relief. About a million different types of medicine, several bouts...