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Data Processing Agreements

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2023
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
25th Jan 2025
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What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer

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

25th Jan 2025
I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it. Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
21st Dec 2016
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Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2016
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
24th Jan 2016
you will blame the wrong people Billionaires, am I right? Immigrants, am I right? It’s going to be so painful to...
1st Sep 2025
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you will blame the wrong people

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

1st Sep 2025
Billionaires, am I right? Immigrants, am I right? It’s going to be so painful to watch. Billionaires will go away. Immigrants will go away. The problems will continue to get worse. The problem is the unproductive. The rich unproductive and the poor unproductive. The finance...
18th Aug 2026
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August 2026

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

18th Aug 2026
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
31st Oct 2022
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<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell

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

31st Oct 2022
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
2nd Apr 2023
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More Everything With AI

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

2nd Apr 2023
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
19th Jan 2024
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Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages

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

19th Jan 2024
Newer, nicer, archives and landing pages
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
13th Dec 2024
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Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts!

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

13th Dec 2024
It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays! Terminal The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
Free Radon album released A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
26th Oct 2023
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Free Radon album released

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Oct 2023
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music. I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
Safe memory reclamation for BIND At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two...
10th Jan 2023
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Safe memory reclamation for BIND

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

10th Jan 2023
At the end of October, I finally got my multithreaded qp-trie working! It could be built with two different concurrency control mechanisms: A reader/writer lock This has poor read-side scalability, because every thread is hammering on the same shared location. But its write...
The ghosts that lives in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
75

The ghosts that lives in my garage

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

13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
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Simple Accessibility

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

7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
Not apparent “Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the...
1st May 2026
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Not apparent

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

1st May 2026
“Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the electrical supply store.
journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
24th Feb 2021
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journey before destination

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

24th Feb 2021
It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face Sign up now - in person space is limited
18th Mar 2023
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Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face

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

18th Mar 2023
Sign up now - in person space is limited
Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build...
19th Nov 2022
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Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved­ feature

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

19th Nov 2022
the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build systems) but not really for having interactive conversations with other developers (at least not yet) – Scott Chacon, GitHub.blog, Aug. 2010 Git notes are almost a secret. They’re...
My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
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My 2021 New Mac Setup

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

5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging

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

10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
Barbershop Multitracks with Zane I recorded two barbershop tags with my friend Zane Fiala.
29th Dec 2008
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Barbershop Multitracks with Zane

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

29th Dec 2008
I recorded two barbershop tags with my friend Zane Fiala.
Japan's Earthquake and Technology Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in...
16th Mar 2011
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Mar 2011
Last Friday, March 11th, there was a [9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami). Despite Tokyo being several hundred kilometers from the epicenter, it's effects were felt even here (although to a much lesser extent than...
Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
30th Jul 2024
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites

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

30th Jul 2024
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
Winner, Name that Ware May 2023 Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS...
30th Jun 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2023

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

30th Jun 2023
Last month’s ware is the Automatic AUT-450C “Connected Car Assistant” (OBD-II code scanner and GPS tracker with cellular, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity). The company went out of business shortly after the start of the pandemic. Here’s some more views of the ware — I had left...
The Money Filter One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
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The Money Filter

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
You can move !Unpin Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the...
4th Dec 2024
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You can move !Unpin

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

4th Dec 2024
Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the exact meaning of Unpin. The documentation says: The documentation of Unpin says: Types that do not require any pinning guarantees. Where pinning is described as: From this, you could...
Why you should continue working on your bad idea * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick...
1st Sep 2012
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea

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

1st Sep 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are...
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
4th Nov 2019
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Nothing matters

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

4th Nov 2019
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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how fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

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

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024 Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days...
6th Dec 2024
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024

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

6th Dec 2024
Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days straight… hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools

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

27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
22nd Jun 2022
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Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2022
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
My personal one-pager I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
3rd Jul 2023
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My personal one-pager

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

3rd Jul 2023
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025 We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible...
4th Aug 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025

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

4th Aug 2025
We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I’m excited for the next one!
Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
29th Mar 2017
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Facebook didn't try to change the world

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Mar 2017
A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
24th May 2010
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Sometimes, the outside is inside

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

24th May 2010
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center! It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
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I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!

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

11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college. In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!). I've also struggled with depression...
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
7th Feb 2022
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KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE

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

7th Feb 2022
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
1st Mar 2020
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Three Jobs of Containers

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

1st Mar 2020
A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
2017 by the numbers These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold...
31st Dec 2017
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2017 by the numbers

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

31st Dec 2017
These are some meaningless numbers. Books read: 34 (goal 50) White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America by Nancy Isenberg Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Brave New World by Aldous...
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.
The OpenAI Mission This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on...
11th Mar 2019
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The OpenAI Mission

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2019
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right). We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
2nd Jul 2025
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Logical Quantifiers in Software

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2025
I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
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A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data

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

5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
Martyr Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the...
25th Mar 2023
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Martyr

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

25th Mar 2023
Crouched behind a thicket, Mirundi tried to catch his breath. He quickly lifted his hand from the floor to catch the sweat that had started dripping from his forehead. His hand was shaking uncontrollably, jerked back and forth by the fear of getting caught again. Mukaajanga, the...
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
114

Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

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

18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
Integrating git with your existing website Better git it in your soul*. Git has a lot of great tutorials for getting started. There are also a...
21st Oct 2012
1

Integrating git with your existing website

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

21st Oct 2012
Better git it in your soul*. Git has a lot of great tutorials for getting started. There are also a number of great articles on how to use git and github for your workflow. What I haven’t seen is an article on how to integrate git with your current site without storing any code...
The Review Is the Action Item 2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
30th May 2024
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The Review Is the Action Item

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

30th May 2024
2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
21st Sep 2020
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Seeing Like an Algorithm

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2020
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
Questionable Advice #2: How Do I Get My Team Into Observability? Welcome to the second installment of my advice column! Last time we talked about the emotional...
17th Dec 2019
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Questionable Advice #2: How Do I Get My Team Into Observability?

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

17th Dec 2019
Welcome to the second installment of my advice column! Last time we talked about the emotional impact of going back to engineering after a stint in management. If you have a question you’d like to ask, please email me or DM it to me on twitter. Hi Charity! I hope it’s ok to just...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
18th Mar 2020
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

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

18th Mar 2020
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding...
28th Feb 2023
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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

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

28th Feb 2023
At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition, and this was the first time...
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
6th Feb 2023
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?

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

6th Feb 2023
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023 Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
1st Nov 2023
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Red rocks V60-style coffee cone, 2023

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

1st Nov 2023
Silver bushes on the red rocks in the Mojave desert / western bluebirds / Brooklyn brownstones
What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

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

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
Infinite javascript array using AJAX A simple way to asynchronously load suggestions into an array in JavaScript.
10th Feb 2014
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Infinite javascript array using AJAX

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

10th Feb 2014
A simple way to asynchronously load suggestions into an array in JavaScript.
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces...
29th May 2022
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Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler

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

29th May 2022
It seems that lately I’ve written several shell implementations of a simple queue that enforces ordered execution of jobs that may arrive out of order. After writing this for the nth time in bash, I decided it was time to do it properly. But first, a word on the why of it all....
1st Nov 2022
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
2nd Dec 2024
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Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps)

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

2nd Dec 2024
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me. These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required. The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
1

Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart

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

15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
Digital Trees Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow...
1st Jul 2024
107

Digital Trees

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

1st Jul 2024
Trees have many functions: they provide shade, they purify air, they store carbon, they grow fruit, and they’re aesthetically pleasing. What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI). It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
Don't make me read your PR description I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s...
3rd Feb 2023
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Don't make me read your PR description

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

3rd Feb 2023
I started using Github Copilot a month or two ago for my personal projects. I can’t say that it’s been a net positive. There are more than a handful of problems that make me slower: Sometimes it suggests a closing quote or paren that isn’t needed. Removing the duplicate character...
What I'm up to - December 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2025
1

What I'm up to - December 2025

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

1st Dec 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Just got back from a holiday in Tokyo and Hakone. I explored Ametora, noodles (tsuk...
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
13th Nov 2019
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Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Nov 2019
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022

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

11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
Writing Faster Python - Introduction 2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
1

Writing Faster Python - Introduction

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

18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements. So all the...
Covers as a way of learning music and code When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able...
21st Jul 2025
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Covers as a way of learning music and code

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

21st Jul 2025
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all...
Summit 010 Berlin Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
6th Jun 2022
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Summit 010 Berlin

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

6th Jun 2022
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin] casually mentioned to...
6th May 2015
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11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle

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

6th May 2015
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin] casually mentioned to me that he would love to go traveling and explore Asia. I love Asia. I lived in Japan as a kid for 3.5 years, and I lived in Hong Kong for 6 months in
The Accidental DBA This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving...
2nd Oct 2016
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The Accidental DBA

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

2nd Oct 2016
This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving MongoDB and data loss, this time by some company called “CleverTap”. Recap To summarize: the CleverTap engineering team noticed that the WiredTiger storage engine was faster than...
You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
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You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros

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

9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public...
19th May 2025
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[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox

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

19th May 2025
Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public radio program
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override...
6th Feb 2016
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Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods

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

6th Feb 2016
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
Everything I wanted 15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional...
15th Dec 2020
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Everything I wanted

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

15th Dec 2020
15 December 2020 I was sat in Heathrow at the end of January, riding an unimaginable professional high. I'd just spent a few days in Nottingham for New Adventures Conf before escaping to Leeds to saddle myself with a hangover that lasted 3 days(Oh Leeds) after which I spent an...
Yearly Reading: Done and To Do Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your brain. The ways in which...
26th Jan 2017
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Yearly Reading: Done and To Do

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

26th Jan 2017
Reading fiction is not that dissimilar from watching a movie in your brain. The ways in which audio-visual consumption of fiction and reading fiction diverge is in their demand on engagement – when reading I must learn new words, I struggle to find meaning, I use my imagination,...
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...
24th Mar 2025
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Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon

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

24th Mar 2025
Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...
Credit where credit is due I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
8th Oct 2024
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Credit where credit is due

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2024
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
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
Podcasts I like A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
14th Jul 2016
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Podcasts I like

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

14th Jul 2016
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
Branchless Lomuto Partitioning A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a...
4th Dec 2023
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Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2023
A partition function accepts as input an array of elements, and a function returning a bool (a predicate) which indicates if an element should be in the first, or second partition. Then it returns two arrays, the two partitions: def partition(v, pred): first = [x for x in v...
Universal Basic Dead End While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer...
7th Apr 2025
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Universal Basic Dead End

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

7th Apr 2025
While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer ready for the big question of "what are we all going to do when the jobs are gone": Just pay everyone enough to loaf around as they see fit! Problem solved, right? Wrong. The...
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome) Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
1st Dec 2022
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What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)

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

1st Dec 2022
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
Launching the Coding Career Handbook! I'm launching my career advice book today!
1st Jul 2020
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Launching the Coding Career Handbook!

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

1st Jul 2020
I'm launching my career advice book today!
The Best Decade in Music Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in...
14th Dec 2024
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The Best Decade in Music

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

14th Dec 2024
Like many people who turned 11 years old in 1964, the first record album I bought “on my own” — in other words by pleading “Mom, can you get this album for me?” — was Meet the Beatles!, their first release in the United States. But so what? I have about as much inclination to...
1st Dec 2024
How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference...
6th Nov 2021
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How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion

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

6th Nov 2021
Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference organised by Altinity. It was a fantastic opportunity to…
Why software projects fail Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
14th Mar 2024
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Why software projects fail

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

14th Mar 2024
Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
What would a web app canary look like? Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
2nd Oct 2023
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What would a web app canary look like?

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

2nd Oct 2023
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots. Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to. They are an essential component...
Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
5th Apr 2023
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Vicuna

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2023
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
16th Apr 2016
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Atom Feed

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

16th Apr 2016
My career and a thought experiment As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
19th Jan 2025
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My career and a thought experiment

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2025
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....
10th Jun 2025
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

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

10th Jun 2025
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
How to build an Auto-Playing Slideshow with React In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two...
16th Nov 2020
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How to build an Auto-Playing Slideshow with React

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

16th Nov 2020
In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two sections: The trick
How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API

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

6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
You look tired "You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
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You look tired

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

5th Jun 2025
"You look tired." Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
5th Mar 2015
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Passing data from PHP to JavaScript

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

5th Mar 2015
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary. Let's say we have the following variable in PHP: $name = 'Bob Marley'; And we want to...
The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I...
1st Jan 2026
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The RP2350-USB-A cannot see devices disconnect

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

1st Jan 2026
What’s better for New Year’s Eve than debugging some USB hardware issues? In my previous article, I explained how the design of Waveshare’s RP2350-USB-A can make the USB-A host connector incapable of detecting certain USB devices, and of any hot-plugging. The solution was to...
How to Thought Lead (2026) I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
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How to Thought Lead (2026)

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

14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after...
2nd Apr 2025
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All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Apr 2025
At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after solving a small technical glitch. We should probably make that a part of every talk. Have the mic not connect automatically, or an almost-complete puzzle on the stage that the speaker...
Correct vs Good What's the difference?
11th Feb 2025
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Correct vs Good

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

11th Feb 2025
What's the difference?
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
1st Feb 2019
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What the Fork is Babel?

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

1st Feb 2019
Illustrated notes on how Babel works
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
9th Oct 2024
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Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Oct 2024
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
Green flags for investable founders Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and...
2nd Jan 2024
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Green flags for investable founders

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2024
Here are a few things I’ve seen founders do that made me confident in their ability and dedication. Elevator pitch in LinkedIn tagline A founder who is all in is constantly selling. That means their tagline will: a) be for their company, not for them b) be the sales pitch, not a...
Grad school in Japan: my experience doing a Master of Sciences in Computer Science My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which...
5th Mar 2024
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5th Mar 2024
My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which allowed me to take a Japanese language course and intern at a major Japanese company. I wrote all about it in [my previous TokyoDev...
Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate...
6th Feb 2018
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Company Values: A Resentful Odyssey

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

6th Feb 2018
I have a very cynical reaction to the word “values”, especially in the context of corporate entities. At best it’s a disingenuous marketing campaign, usually it’s more like a red blaring light shining on their degenerate hypocrisies and weakest aspirations. But we’ve been doing a...
how to draw a tetrapod Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences. There’s a bit of a craze...
24th Oct 2025
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how to draw a tetrapod

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

24th Oct 2025
Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences. There’s a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently I’ve seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one. I found a nice way to describe...
31st Jul 2015
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
9th Jul 2014
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Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2014
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling....
29th Nov 2023
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Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Nov 2023
While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
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Qvault is moving to Boot.dev

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

7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own...
16th Aug 2025
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Fighting subscription fatigue with vibe-coding

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

16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS. Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them. I looked for an existing solution that has the...
12th Dec 2017
Kagi Search - New Features We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three...
22nd Dec 2022
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Kagi Search - New Features

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

22nd Dec 2022
We’d like to give an update about the most important things happening at Kagi in the last three months.
Winner, Name that Ware August 2026 The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”,...
2 weeks ago
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Winner, Name that Ware August 2026

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

2 weeks ago
The Ware for August 2026 is the “IC unit” from a Lafayette 150-in-1 “IC Electronic Project Kit”, part number 99-35107. Above is a contextual photo of how the unit looked mounted in the kit. And above are a couple examples of projects you can build with the “IC” as part of the...
The Mythical Non-Roboticist What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework...
14th Mar 2024
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The Mythical Non-Roboticist

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

14th Mar 2024
What if everyone could do robotics? That would be great, right? We should make a software framework so that non-roboticists can program robots.This idea is so close to a correct idea that it's hard to tell why it's a mistake.
What I’m Using in 2026 This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
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What I’m Using in 2026

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list. Applications Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
My desk setup in 2025. Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together...
7th Jun 2025
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My desk setup in 2025.

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

7th Jun 2025
Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together at this point. I don’t really think my desk setup is very novel, and I’m sure there are better ways to pull it together, but I will say that it finally works the way I want since...
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including...
2nd Feb 2023
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2nd Feb 2023
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more. See it for the most current information. Sometimes you might want to run Docker...
LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
2nd Sep 2024
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2nd Sep 2024
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
26th Dec 2020
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Partial order and non-Boolean logic

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

26th Dec 2020
Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
Invisible success I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are...
17th Apr 2024
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Invisible success

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

17th Apr 2024
I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because I think we went about making it the right way: Identifying an...
Markdown is easier than ever Our new toolbar makes writing your email easier than ever!
11th Mar 2018
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Markdown is easier than ever

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

11th Mar 2018
Our new toolbar makes writing your email easier than ever!
Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary...
4th Aug 2026
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Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt

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

4th Aug 2026
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill. For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then paving over it. It enjoyed popularity as a...
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)
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
13th Nov 2019
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Clever Code Considered Harmful

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

13th Nov 2019
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
5 coding interview questions I hate I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some...
21st Mar 2022
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5 coding interview questions I hate

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

21st Mar 2022
I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some were pure cringe. I’ve been asked if I have kids (supposedly, people with children won’t have time to job hop), and if “I bet my ass I cost that much”. Fun times. But today I’d like...
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
11th Oct 2024
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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

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

11th Oct 2024
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
2nd May 2014
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
28th Feb 2023
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How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World

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

28th Feb 2023
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
24th Sep 2023
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A case for stacked patches 📚

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

24th Sep 2023
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, [email protected] Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
20th Sep 2018
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Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set

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

20th Sep 2018
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
Creating space Do less, to create the space to be great.
4th Jan 2026
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Creating space

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

4th Jan 2026
Do less, to create the space to be great.
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
22nd Jan 2010
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Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin

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

22nd Jan 2010
You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
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Recently

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

1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS

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

19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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...
First Letter Pseudo Element First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
3rd May 2019
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First Letter Pseudo Element

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

3rd May 2019
First Letter Pseudo Element 2019-05-03 In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset. The HTML Like most...
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
1st Jul 2025
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Building a container orchestrator

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

1st Jul 2025
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
My Git alias for shipping a feature branch A handy Git alias for merging a feature branch into master and pushing it to the server.
4th Dec 2013
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My Git alias for shipping a feature branch

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

4th Dec 2013
A handy Git alias for merging a feature branch into master and pushing it to the server.
7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is...
4th Jan 2022
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7 Best Practices for Every Python Developer

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

4th Jan 2022
If you’re looking to improve your coding, there are lots of steps you can take, but the first is focusing on Python best practices. It’s really important that your code is readable, testable, and maintainable. From picking good variable names, refactoring code that gets repeated...
Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice....
29th Sep 2024
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Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas

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

29th Sep 2024
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice. Dice are cubes and would be most convincingly rendered with 3D graphics. But because these dice are only a tiny part of this project, I was reluctant to call out the big guns. I...
Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found...
9th Feb 2013
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Vim, the OSX clipboard and Tmux

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

9th Feb 2013
I’ve been an Ubuntu user for 4 years now. Since I started working at Upsync 3 months ago, I’ve found myself a very lonely desktop Linux user. Also, since this job is my first heavy-duty exposure to back-end web development, I’ve found myself a very confused desktop Linux...
The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
1st Jan 2020
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The YC Interview

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

1st Jan 2020
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
31st May 2023
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023

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

31st May 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
Migrating Buttondown to mypy The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
19th Jan 2022
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Migrating Buttondown to mypy

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

19th Jan 2022
The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
8th Sep 2021
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Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog

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

8th Sep 2021
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog 2021-09-08 With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
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...
Better with Star Wars, baking is Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather...
16th Jul 2010
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Better with Star Wars, baking is

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

16th Jul 2010
Isn't everything? Star Wars partnered with Williams-Sonoma to make pancake molds and some rather insanely high quality cookie cutters: The set of four includes a Yoda face and helmets from each of Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and a stormtrooper. I knew that if I ever got my hands on...
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
17th Apr 2025
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

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

17th Apr 2025
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
Data and acquired consent Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's...
4th Nov 2025
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Data and acquired consent

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

4th Nov 2025
Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's okay...until it's not. If you're a brand, a content creator, or just someone on the internet, and you come across someone sharing their email on a platform for the purpose of being...
Terminal colours are tricky Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was...
1st Oct 2024
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Terminal colours are tricky

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

1st Oct 2024
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what problems they’ve run into with colours in the...
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
10th Mar 2022
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CSS Parts Inspired by BEM

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

10th Mar 2022
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the...
2nd Nov 2021
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The Best Product Managers Have The Worst Ideas

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

2nd Nov 2021
It’s hard finding good product people. That fact is really a tragedy because they are probably the most important part of any product-focused organization. I think there is a misconception in the software industry that product managers have a good sense of “what users want”,...
Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but...
24th Apr 2009
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Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer

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

24th Apr 2009
I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. The weird thing is that it wasn't showing up as a broken link (no missing image icon with the infamous red 'X'). Instead, it wasn't showing up at...
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful...
1st Jun 2023
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Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools

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

1st Jun 2023
For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools. I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
Array 1.22.0 PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual...
3rd Mar 2021
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Array 1.22.0

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

3rd Mar 2021
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
Dark mode by local sunlight Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable...
16th Jun 2021
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Dark mode by local sunlight

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jun 2021
Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable automatically?
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Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019 There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work....
19th Nov 2019
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Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019

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

19th Nov 2019
There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work. Last week, I flew out to Berlin for a few days to attend Beyond Tellerrand. My co-worker Aaron was speaking and running a workshop and I emceed the community focused session we've...
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures) This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them....
25th Dec 2023
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The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)

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

25th Dec 2023
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them. Now that they’ve enjoyed it, I’m releasing it under the GPL v3. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the...
Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
17th Apr 2023
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Finally!

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

17th Apr 2023
I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
Rhythms of Order Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous...
5th Oct 2023
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Rhythms of Order

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

5th Oct 2023
Access to the world on one’s phone has provided possibilities and efficiencies that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Whether it’s bypassing traffic jams on the outskirts of hills of Kampala, or it’s determining your public transport route from your hotel to your...
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023 My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
3rd Dec 2022
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Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023

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

3rd Dec 2022
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025 Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025

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

11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
One happy Rails World Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the...
7th Oct 2023
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One happy Rails World

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

7th Oct 2023
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
26th Feb 2018
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WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps

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

26th Feb 2018
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right. Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC...
9th Sep 2019
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What it’s like open sourcing code created for the government

from Daniel Immke [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Sep 2019
Recently I released a project I built for the CDC as open source out into the world. It’s called CDC Maps, and I wrote a case study about it…
Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...
26th Mar 2025
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Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2025
JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price
#33 make me one (input) with everything The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad...
27th Aug 2024
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#33 make me one (input) with everything

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Aug 2024
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more. Bad code <label for="textinput">First name</label> <input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name"> Issues and how to fix them The...
The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast every step of the way to get...
20th Apr 2022
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The Unreasonable Fight for Municipal Broadband

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

20th Apr 2022
I love Longmont’s municipal broadband, but we had to fight Comcast every step of the way to get it. NextLight—Longmont’s Broadband As a gracious person, I’ll dutifully pretend that the problem might be on my side of the Zoom call. But the problem is never me—my internet is just...
31st Dec 2022
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How to create an accessible React modal A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the...
1st Apr 2019
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How to create an accessible React modal

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

1st Apr 2019
A modal dialog is a window overlaid on top of the main application. It’s an inert window where the user can’t interact with the rest of the application. Creating a modal in React is fairly easy. There are dozens of resources that explain how to do so, including the React...
On-Die ECC This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory....
11th Nov 2024
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On-Die ECC

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

11th Nov 2024
This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory. So, I looked around for DDR5 ECC memory. Surprisingly, DDR5 memory sticks that mentioned ECC was not significantly more expensive than other DDR5 memory sticks. Sometimes, they were...
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
8th Jan 2025
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Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook

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

8th Jan 2025
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Stroustrup's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
11th Dec 2024
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Stroustrup's Rule

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Dec 2024
Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrup's Rule I first encountered Stroustrup's Rule on this...
On the Security of AES in HomeMatic HomeMatic is a line of home automation devices that are popular in Germany and use a proprietary...
15th Sep 2015
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On the Security of AES in HomeMatic

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Sep 2015
HomeMatic is a line of home automation devices that are popular in Germany and use a proprietary radio protocol (BidCoS, Bidirectional Communication Standard) on a frequency of 868MHz. Some devices allow optional use of “AES signing” for message authentication. When enabled, the...
Doing It Manually I have a standing desk that goes up and down via a manual crank. I’ve had it for probably ten...
2nd Oct 2025
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Doing It Manually

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

2nd Oct 2025
I have a standing desk that goes up and down via a manual crank. I’ve had it for probably ten years. Every time I raise or lower that thing, it gets my blood pumping. I often think: “I should upgrade to one of those standing desks that goes up and down with the push of a...
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,...
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...
The agent principal-agent problem The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code...
7th May 2026
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The agent principal-agent problem

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

7th May 2026
The agent principal-agent problem 2026-05-07 Code review is broken. The industry-established code review process, review-then-commit, was a straightforward mechanism that allowed a relatively low-trust group of engineers to collaborate. It appears to have been initially developed...
notes from Naval (2025) someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting...
6th Jul 2025
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notes from Naval (2025)

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

6th Jul 2025
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to Market Yourself Without Being A Celebrity and "Play Long Term Games with Long Term People". HTGR also...
What I'm up to - October 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Oct 2024
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What I'm up to - October 2024

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

1st Oct 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - I've started publishing on Contraption Company every Friday. My posts last month: I...
Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
30th Nov 2023
158

I Fight For The Users

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Nov 2023
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
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...
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
Recently Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned...
3rd Oct 2022
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Recently

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

3rd Oct 2022
Summer screeched to a halt a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it. The dehumidifiers turned off, the humidifiers on. The A/C off, the heat on. I’m still, more than a year after leaving the west coast, grateful for the presence of seasons to keep me aware of time...
Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
7th May 2020
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Array 1.4.0

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

7th May 2020
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
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Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search

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

13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
9th May 2013
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Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2013
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
4th Nov 2020
46

Array 1.16.0

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

4th Nov 2020
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
15th Dec 2020
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Painting Roam Research with Custom CSS

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

15th Dec 2020
How to customise Roam Research with your own CSS themes
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
16th Dec 2024
126

The premise trap

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

16th Dec 2024
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
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