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Navigating personal information with care Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020,...
24th Sep 2023
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Navigating personal information with care

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2023
Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
3 Years of Extremely Remote Work In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two...
21st May 2025
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3 Years of Extremely Remote Work

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st May 2025
In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two weeks, followed by my usual 7am start, Monday to Saturday. I'm working remotely from Australia for a US firm (Intel) who does not have a local office here. I'm not complaining. I...
New microblog with TILs I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save...
9th Nov 2024
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New microblog with TILs

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2024
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky is “hey, here’s a cool thing”, like the great SQLite repl litecli, or the...
The Overcast Redesign: Part One Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
25th Mar 2022
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The Overcast Redesign: Part One

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

25th Mar 2022
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first...
9th Mar 2020
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2020
Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky! Let me just use try/catch!” This criticism is well-meaning but misguided.
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
18th Nov 2024
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Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Nov 2024
I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
2nd Feb 2023
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How to Reverse Interview Investors

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

2nd Feb 2023
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
Alchemy Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways,...
9th Nov 2025
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Alchemy

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

9th Nov 2025
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
1st Dec 2019
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Taking web search through the last mile

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2019
(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production" The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
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Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here. Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on...
6th Oct 2019
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Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Oct 2019
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be "sticky" on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don't style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
28th Mar 2023
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Just stop adding people.

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

28th Mar 2023
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
Revised rules of engineering leadership. From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging,...
15th Jun 2026
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Revised rules of engineering leadership.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jun 2026
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when...
Plain Text Emails, Please Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
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Plain Text Emails, Please

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please 2019-09-09 When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
13th May 2024
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Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue

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

13th May 2024
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
2 weeks ago
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Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
The many benefits of paying for search “Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
18th Aug 2025
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The many benefits of paying for search

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2025
“Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought...
16th Jan 2026
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My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months

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

16th Jan 2026
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
6th Aug 2013
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6th Aug 2013
Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I...
6th Jun 2022
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What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2022
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements. Contents California Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Controller Treasurer Insurance Commissioner United...
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
9th Oct 2023
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Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

9th Oct 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
Protect Your Wireless Network Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
12th May 2013
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Protect Your Wireless Network

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

12th May 2013
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network. About WiFi Protected Setup WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266 Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
1st Aug 2020
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Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266

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

1st Aug 2020
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2022 And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗 How can...
4th Jan 2021
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The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2022

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2021
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗 How can you decide what the most popular coding language is? It’s like trying to pick the most popular ice cream flavor - everyone has a favorite. The truth is that different coders prefer...
Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
10th May 2022
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac)

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

10th May 2022
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of...
5th Aug 2023
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5th Aug 2023
This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns...
More People, Less Progress: The Startup Scaling Paradox You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with...
19th Oct 2025
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More People, Less Progress: The Startup Scaling Paradox

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

19th Oct 2025
You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with 8 people than you were with 4. It makes no sense! You’ve hired smart people, you’ve written good documentation, you’re not burdening people with meetings. Yet somehow, adding more...
Information is still free Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it...
7th Jan 2026
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Information is still free

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2026
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely. The post Information is still free appeared first on The History of the Web.
Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM) If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
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On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
Folk Interfaces People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
24th Aug 2022
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Folk Interfaces

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Aug 2022
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
Developer variants Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
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Developer variants

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment. In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
Dinosaur Kingdom II A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
4 weeks ago
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Dinosaur Kingdom II

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 weeks ago
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
getentropy() vs RAND_bytes() A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024....
1st Oct 2024
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getentropy() vs RAND_bytes()

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

1st Oct 2024
A couple of notable things have happened in recent months: There is a new edition of POSIX for 2024. There’s lots of good stuff in it, but today I am writing about getentropy() which is the first officially standardized POSIX API for getting cryptographically secure random...
Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
3rd Oct 2024
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Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS

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

3rd Oct 2024
Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.  Now you can deploy...
Hacker News Clones Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I...
2nd Nov 2024
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Hacker News Clones

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

2nd Nov 2024
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results *This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an...
7th Jan 2020
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2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2020
*This survey has become a yearly thing. Browse [all our survey results](/insights).* If you're an international software developer looking for a job in Japan, it can be hard to tell what your market rate is. Sure, there's data (in Japanese) for the market as a whole, but that...
Create a Course on Boot.dev We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented...
4th Sep 2025
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Create a Course on Boot.dev

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2025
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the...
2nd Dec 2020
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Certificates vs Diplomas in Computer Science

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2020
When I was looking into getting my first job related to programming, I had no idea what the difference between a certificate and a diploma was. I was terrified that I’d have to go back to school and spend 2-4 years getting a degree in computer science before an employer would...
Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11th Jan 2024
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Handmade Seattle 2023

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2024
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...
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
7th Feb 2024
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Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2024
Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
27th Mar 2017
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Switching to Pelican

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

27th Mar 2017
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
What I'm up to - May 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
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What I'm up to - May 2025

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
My favorite Erlang Container 2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
10th Jul 2022
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My favorite Erlang Container

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2022
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...
Why you need a physical address in your newsletter Providing a real address is important for compliance.
1st Mar 2020
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Why you need a physical address in your newsletter

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

1st Mar 2020
Providing a real address is important for compliance.
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
2nd Sep 2024
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My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2024
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
Accurate Predictions In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
6th Jun 2023
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Accurate Predictions

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2023
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
5th Jun 2023
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD

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

5th Jun 2023
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
What I'm up to - February 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
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What I'm up to - February 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
8th Jan 2024
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Six

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2024
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
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Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief

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

7th May 2007
Greensburg I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell...
4th Jul 2023
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Build Your First Coding Project and Avoid Tutorial Hell

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jul 2023
While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real.
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025 Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children...
2nd Jan 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2025
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
12th Feb 2018
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Stay Hungry

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2018
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
26th Apr 2025
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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

26th Apr 2025
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my...
7th Nov 2024
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The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2024
For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my first two decades in this country, I went from one extreme to the other: from seeing English as important here, to regarding it as a niche, inessential aspect of Japanese life. My...
What happens to what we’ve already created? When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it...
11th Feb 2025
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What happens to what we’ve already created?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created. The post What happens to what we’ve already created? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
2nd Jan 2025
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Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2025
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution. We store different kinds of information on S3,...
#1 button disguised as a link Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website"...
17th Oct 2019
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#1 button disguised as a link

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2019
Bad code <button role="link" title="Name of website" tabindex="0"> <img alt="Name of website" src="logo.jpg" title="Name of website"> </button> Issues and how to fix them Wrong usage of the button element. There’s an element for linking to external sites (<a>). Do not change...
1st Sep 2020
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
7th Sep 2018
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Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2018
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
Personal Sprint Retrospectives Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
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Personal Sprint Retrospectives

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays. If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
1st Apr 2024
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From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2024
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of...
4th Apr 2024
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The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2024
You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz. There have been a lot of takes on this, most of them boiling down to some version of: The problem here is with Open Source Software. I want to say not only is that view so myopic that it pushes towards the incorrect, but also it...
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
2nd Oct 2023
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How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
19th Oct 2020
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How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Oct 2020
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
19th Feb 2018
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I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing

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

19th Feb 2018
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
A year at GitHub I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
9th Aug 2023
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A year at GitHub

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

9th Aug 2023
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today. On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself. It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
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offer up is the tinder of marketplaces

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
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Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS

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

10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
31st Jan 2024
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A return to company core mission & values

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2024
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
Zone of Genius Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a...
12th Jun 2019
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Zone of Genius

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

12th Jun 2019
Aligning the right people with jobs to be done is an age-old problem in company building. And on a micro level, aligning yourself with the right role is also challenging. What should you delegate? Where should you focus your efforts? I've found the Zone of Genius framework to
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
15th Oct 2021
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2021
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my...
2 weeks ago
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Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my phone, and put it down. I’m free to wash the dishes, fold the laundry, or shop for groceries. Unfortunately, more and more information is only published as a video. Technical talks,...
Being a good co-worker is your job now In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at...
3rd Jan 2024
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Being a good co-worker is your job now

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

3rd Jan 2024
In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at meetings.
Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges. One...
8th Sep 2025
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Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Sep 2025
Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges. One common mistake is forgetting to handle the EXIF orientation, which can make resized images look very different from the original. Last year I wrote a create_thumbnail tool to...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
29th Dec 2022
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Why did I write Geometry for programmers

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

29th Dec 2022
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
Gathering Structures How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
20th Feb 2024
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Gathering Structures

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2024
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
Paleolithic Nostalgia Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
20th Jun 2021
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Paleolithic Nostalgia

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jun 2021
Longing for the paleolithic past in the Anthropocene
The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
24th Apr 2023
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The “const” Deception

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

24th Apr 2023
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
16th Jun 2025
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Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2025
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
How to screen developers When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited...
2nd May 2018
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How to screen developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2018
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited resources to dedicate to the hiring process, so you want a process that minimizes the work for you and your team. On the other hand, you have a challenging time attracting talented...
Sock🧦 nerdery🤓 Being a nerd is not about what you love; it’s about how you love it. – Wil Wheaton My running last...
1st Jul 2022
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Sock🧦 nerdery🤓

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

1st Jul 2022
Being a nerd is not about what you love; it’s about how you love it. – Wil Wheaton My running last week I’m a runner and a sock nerd, and in four days, I’m running a half-marathon (eek!). Here are some reflections on socks because if there’s one thing every runner knows it’s:...
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025 We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson...
7th Dec 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
How to Prepare for the CAPM Certification Exam "Wait, aren't you a software developer?" If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be...
14th Nov 2019
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How to Prepare for the CAPM Certification Exam

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2019
"Wait, aren't you a software developer?" If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be thinking: "Aren't you a prominent software developer, not a project manager?" Ok, maybe without the prominent part. But yes, you are right. I started working as a developer a few years...
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
7th Jul 2020
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Improving Github's New Design

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

7th Jul 2020
Improving Github’s New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Haunt 0.4.0 released I'm quite a bit late on this one, but Haunt version 0.4.0 was released released back in July. I...
a week ago
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Haunt 0.4.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
I'm quite a bit late on this one, but Haunt version 0.4.0 was released released back in July. I haven't had much time for blogging, but I'm catching up now! This release contains a small set of improvements and bug fixes since the 0.3.0 release in 2024. About Haunt Haunt is a...
Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint" If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It...
29th Apr 2020
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Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint"

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Apr 2020
If you're in the software industry, it's hard to not be aware of agile development at this point. It seems like every team practices it differently, but there are certain commonalities that run through all teams I've seen. One of those is the term used for each time-delimited...
Retaining an MVP mindset A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements...
3rd May 2024
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Retaining an MVP mindset

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

3rd May 2024
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...
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser&nbsp;Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
11th Dec 2021
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Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser&nbsp;Beams

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2021
Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...
Announcing the Hatnote Top 100 Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
Parsing URLs in JavaScript There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
24th Oct 2013
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Parsing URLs in JavaScript

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Oct 2013
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core...
16th Jul 2020
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Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2020
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core contributors (Hi Paul!). If I ever get invited to the "Talk Python To Me" podcast (not that I have anything interesting to talk about), and Michael Kennedy is going to ask me what my...
Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU...
7th Dec 2021
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Bare Metal vs. Virtualization Performance

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2021
I just built a new homelab server. Specs are as follows: Neil's Lab Server Specifications CPU Model Intel® Xeon® Gold 6326, 16 Cores (32 Threads), 2.90 GHz (Base), 3.50 GHz (Turbo) CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S DX-4189 Motherboard Supermicro...
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

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

7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
Archive search Archive search
1st Jul 2024
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Archive search

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

1st Jul 2024
Archive search
Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
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Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
Prepping for the endgame of the open web Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare. The post...
7th Apr 2026
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Prepping for the endgame of the open web

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2026
Thinking about Anil Dash's "Endgame for the Open Web," and what we can do to prepare. The post Prepping for the endgame of the open web appeared first on The History of the Web.
January updates Howdy and Happy New Year! We had a quiet but productive start to 2018; I'm pumped to share what...
1st Feb 2018
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January updates

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

1st Feb 2018
Howdy and Happy New Year! We had a quiet but productive start to 2018; I'm pumped to share what we've been up to.
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...
7th Jun 2023
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A dive into the AMD driver workflow

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

7th Jun 2023
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...
The serial TX path seems to be down The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when...
11th Aug 2025
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The serial TX path seems to be down

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Aug 2025
The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when using the ESP-Prog. I could have jumped straight to the conclusion, but I took the time to really understand what was going on, and we are finally reaching the end of this...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
3rd Oct 2022
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Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2022
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
Why React Re-Renders In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and...
16th Aug 2022
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Why React Re-Renders

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

16th Aug 2022
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the...
7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to...
9th Sep 2025
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7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2025
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to send their data to Looker (Google) either. Free and…
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
9th Nov 2024
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The Pythonic Emptiness

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

9th Nov 2024
Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most cases
Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
6th Apr 2012
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2012
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it's twice as long) 90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of...
18th Feb 2026
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18th Feb 2026
90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of Observability Engineering is almost done.
How To Podcast Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
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How To Podcast

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

7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them in a separate post - basically the McClusky Curve...
Automating updates to a digital vigil November 20th each year is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). It is a day when we memorialize...
24th Nov 2025
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Automating updates to a digital vigil

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Nov 2025
November 20th each year is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). It is a day when we memorialize those who've been lost to transphobia, through violence or suicide. And each year, I make the most difficult git commit of the year, updating the list of names in the digital vigil...
ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which...
14th Jan 2018
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ET-Jekyll Theme

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2018
ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it's style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

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

31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
28th Apr 2023
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2023
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud &#038; Vercel costs Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called...
25th Mar 2025
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25th Mar 2025
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years. I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about reducing...
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023? Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
5th Feb 2023
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Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2023
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
Winner, Name That Ware November 2025 The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It...
25th Dec 2025
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Winner, Name That Ware November 2025

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

25th Dec 2025
The Ware for November 2025 is a controller from the card-activated power switch in a hotel room. It was on the fritz, and when the repair person came and replaced it, Sam asked for the old module and brought it to me as a name that ware entry. Here’s the other circuit board that...
30th Nov 2016
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
23rd Jun 2025
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Proving that every program halts

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jun 2025
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
1st Jun 2021
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Building a 3D Printer Enclosure

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

1st Jun 2021
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
1st Jun 2022
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Why I Moved Off Dev.to

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

1st Jun 2022
2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
I hate the standup bot (so I built an agent to do it for me) There it is. Staring at me. Sitting there. Goading me. The day is nearly done. I've reviewed PRs,...
1st Apr 2026
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I hate the standup bot (so I built an agent to do it for me)

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2026
There it is. Staring at me. Sitting there. Goading me. The day is nearly done. I've reviewed PRs, fixed bugs, hopped on quick calls, commanded my…
Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
3rd Jun 2026
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Public postmortem: tracked links unavailable

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

3rd Jun 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
9th Sep 2024
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The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has

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

9th Sep 2024
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
My first attempts with Unity My first attempts with Unity
1st Sep 2021
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My first attempts with Unity

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2021
My first attempts with Unity
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
28th Jan 2014
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Chromecast Backgrounds

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

28th Jan 2014
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
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Why I'm not a VC (yet)

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

8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
dtrace.conf(24) Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the...
5th Dec 2024
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dtrace.conf(24)

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

5th Dec 2024
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent: The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by porting...
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
15th Jul 2024
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset

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

15th Jul 2024
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
Moving from WordPress to Substack Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a...
14th Dec 2025
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Moving from WordPress to Substack

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

14th Dec 2025
Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a decade ago. “Hello, world.” I had just left Facebook, hadn’t yet formally incorporated Honeycomb, and it just felt like it was time, long past time for me to put something up and start...
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr; I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed...
4th Nov 2022
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A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian &rarr;

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2022
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it. It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too. To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin. When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
I love sharing these sorts of mistakes. I love sharing these sorts of mistakes. Thankfully, I’ve only had a few gut-wrenching moments and...
10th Oct 2017
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I love sharing these sorts of mistakes.

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2017
I love sharing these sorts of mistakes. Thankfully, I’ve only had a few gut-wrenching moments and they’ve all been largely recoverable. The worst panic situation I had was when my hosting provider decided that after a single failed payment (through no fault of my own) they would...
Introducing Berkeley Mono Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial:...
4th Sep 2021
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Introducing Berkeley Mono

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2021
Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv...
13th Sep 2025
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how fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Sep 2025
The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible.
7th Sep 2018
What if there isn't another 10x? What if your tech company has peaked? Is relentless growth the only path, or is it time to redefine...
18th Oct 2016
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What if there isn't another 10x?

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

18th Oct 2016
What if your tech company has peaked? Is relentless growth the only path, or is it time to redefine your true impact on the world?
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
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Ballad of The Lean Startup

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

26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins! RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an...
6th Apr 2026
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RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2026
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
4th Feb 2025
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4th Feb 2025
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
Using systems modeling to refine strategy. While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about...
4th Nov 2024
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Using systems modeling to refine strategy.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2024
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...
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
7th Aug 2017
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On Estimates, Time, and Evidence

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2017
Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
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The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
8th Mar 2010
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing

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

8th Mar 2010
I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
My event-driven life I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
8th Jul 2023
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My event-driven life

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2023
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog by Stephanie Eckles Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If...
1st Dec 2025
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Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog

from HTMHell Advent Calendar 2025 [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2025
by Stephanie Eckles Have you ever tried to set z-index: 9999 to solve element layering issues? If so, you’ve been fighting a fundamental CSS concept of stacking contexts. The stacking context defines the order things are placed in the third dimension, or the “z” axis. Think of...
baffled by generational garbage collection Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a...
9th Feb 2025
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baffled by generational garbage collection

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2025
Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with questions, or rather one question, but with fractal surface area: what is the value proposition...
Know your “One Job” and do it first Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be...
7th Mar 2021
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Know your “One Job” and do it first

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

7th Mar 2021
Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options and developing a schema management tool, keep slipping. But she is one of HR’s...
My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
2nd Dec 2019
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My experience as a remote worker

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

2nd Dec 2019
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Pricing determines your business model Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
5th Nov 2014
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Pricing determines your business model

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

5th Nov 2014
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
5th Oct 2016
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5th Oct 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home: I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday: I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election. I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
16th Feb 2024
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Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Feb 2024
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
7th Oct 2024
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no-unused-binary-expressions: From code review nit to ecosystem improvements

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2024
How implementing an ESLint rule led to changes in how people write JavaScript
Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
9th Nov 2022
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Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?)

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2022
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
fibre broadband anticlimax How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road...
a week ago
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fibre broadband anticlimax

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

a week ago
How can something that “just works” be so annoying? situation We live in Cambridge off a little road down a drive in shared ownership between us and our neighbouring houses. All the utilities are buried under this drive, including the phone line. anticipation Over the last few...
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
Experimenting with a 7 day work week * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first...
10th Jun 2013
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Experimenting with a 7 day work week

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

10th Jun 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the first two weeks of last month, I religiously tried to follow a new routine I created for myself: a 7 day work week routine. The idea was quite simple: I would work 7 days a week, rest 7
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent...
11th Apr 2024
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OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System

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

11th Apr 2024
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System 2024-04-11 OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220 With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about...
10th Sep 2018
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We spent $3.3M buying out investors: Why and how we did it

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

10th Sep 2018
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Starting the conversations, negotiations, and process of this buy out was one
Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built...
27th May 2024
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Fast Linear Gradient Fills with OffscreenCanvas

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th May 2024
TLDR: Demo is here, Code is here, App is here In Kidz Fun Art, the web app for tablets I’ve built for my kids and hopefully yours, I recently added a nice little feature where you can fill in any area with a linear gradient. It’s highly responsive to the user moving their...
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible...
3rd Nov 2023
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Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2023
The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s always just one path, defined by evolution from one state to the next. But in a...
Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
7th Oct 2021
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Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2021
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
9th Feb 2026
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Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2026
Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
3rd Apr 2023
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Specialization considered harmful

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

3rd Apr 2023
It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference? Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
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JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Software Acceleration and Desynchronization A bit more than a month ago, I posted the following on social media: Seeing more reports and...
5th Jan 2026
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Software Acceleration and Desynchronization

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jan 2026
A bit more than a month ago, I posted the following on social media: Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of...
Type parameters in Go Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll...
10th Mar 2024
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Type parameters in Go

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

10th Mar 2024
Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.
To Comment or Not to Comment Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
6th Jul 2023
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To Comment or Not to Comment

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2023
Ruminations on the timeless debate of comments in code.
Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
11th Apr 2021
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Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript

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

11th Apr 2021
The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
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All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
1st Oct 2021
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
28th May 2025
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Nerding out about heaters

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

28th May 2025
Keeping warm in the winter
The Object Model in Livelymerge A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
7th Aug 2026
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The Object Model in Livelymerge

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2026
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8 I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
30th Sep 2009
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Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Sep 2009
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
11th Dec 2023
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Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2023
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
Focus on the line, not the dot * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I...
2nd Jan 2013
33

Focus on the line, not the dot

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

2nd Jan 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Yesterday I noticed the Who’s Hiring? [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992617] thread pop up again on Hacker News. If you’re hiring, it’s a great place to share that fact. Since around half a...
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
17th Jan 2019
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew

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

17th Jan 2019
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
The McPhee method When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting”...
17th Aug 2025
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The McPhee method

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2025
When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read....
Building a UI Framework Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI...
25th Jul 2025
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Building a UI Framework

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jul 2025
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI frameworks, based on my experiences of the past 25-30 years. The work was originally commissioned by a customer for their use, but it seems like it might be of wider interest so I've decided...
I have not failed enough I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
30th Dec 2023
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I have not failed enough

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

30th Dec 2023
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”. This was...
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
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The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
17th Feb 2025
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
3rd May 2023
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Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break

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

3rd May 2023
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
10th Dec 2024
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Where did mainstream media come from?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Dec 2024
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Switching From C++ to Rust Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
13th Mar 2023
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Switching From C++ to Rust

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Mar 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
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