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Privacy Monthly: May 2023
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
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Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
somenice
Generative Art on a Round TFT Display I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px...
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I spent a lovely snowy afternoon using Adobe Firefly to generate images to for a 2.1″ 480x480px round TFT display. The results look amazing. Using the IOT capable Adafruit Qualia Board and 2.1″ Round TFT with capacitive touch it’s programmed using CircuitPython. I look forward to...
TokyoDev
How to Write Resumes for Jobs in Japan Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially...
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a year ago
Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
Yale e360
We deserve to know if something was generated by AI We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on...
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over a year ago
We're plunging into a world where AI-generated text surrounds us. But we don't know where we are on that. What portion of the text you read each day was generated fully or partially by a human, or by an LLM? We don't know, and probably can't know, and that brings about some...
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Array 1.31.0 PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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over a year ago
CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Liz Denys
A geek feminism anecdote Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't...
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over a year ago
Only a fraction of my blog is about technical or "geeky/nerdy" things. Then again, my blog isn't intended to be about a specific topic - it's just full of what I feel like writing at the time. Perhaps, more technical things will follow in the future. Some friends and I randomly...
Making software...
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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over a year ago
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Steve Klabnik
Travis build matrix for Rails
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
What happens if IE8 "breaks" my website? Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version...
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Last year all of the hype was about IE8 and Microsoft's decision to default the browsers version targeting to "quirks mode" rather than standards mode. This essentially meant that developers would have to opt-in to IE8's standards mode using a proprietary <meta> tag that tells...
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
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When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging & Listening When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t...
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9 months ago
When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences,...
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
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I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work? Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
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over a year ago
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here. I started by complaining on Mastodon: are there any guides to nix that...
Greg Brockman
Stellar board I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
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over a year ago
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board. Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
David Heinemeier...
Buying the seller We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity...
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We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity market, so this was less about pining for a specific feature or even working to reduce the bill. This was about buying from Tom Rossi, the technical cofounder of HigherPixels (who...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
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over a year ago
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
HTMHell
A Theory of Web Relativity The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually...
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The rel attribute has the potential to take the Internet to the next level… and yet, we usually forget about it. Imagine a city where people guided themselves by the landmarks and the stores, where there were no directional signs, and where streets and neighborhoods had no names....
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
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over a year ago
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs? 2018-10-18 I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website. Nowadays companies and...
Evan Jones -...
Postgres large sub-string query performance Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on...
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over a year ago
Following up on my last post about large JSON queries, I also benchmarked sub-string queries on large variable-length strings. I wanted to check if sub-string queries might be faster than HSTORE or JSONB key lookups. I tested both binary (BYTEA) and Unicode text (TEXT)....
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
5 months ago
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Introducing Data Management for PostHog PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in PostHog Cloud, and hundreds of self-hosted users reached…
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users. In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times: That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d — Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
the jsomers.net blog
More people should write More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. I have a selfish reason for my demand: I have a lot of friends who are thoughtful, but keep their...
Steve Klabnik
A break with the past
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
over a year ago
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Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
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The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
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Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
December 2024
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Semi-Automatic npm and GitHub Releases with `gh-release` and `auto-changelog` A snippet I use all the time
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. "MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...
a year ago
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a year ago
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
Irrational...
Notes on How Big Things Get Done How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some...
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How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner is a fascinating look at why some megaprojects fail so resoundingly and why others succeed under budget and under schedule. It’s an exploration of planning methods, the role of expertise, the value of benchmarking similar...
The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
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over a year ago
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Multiple Computers I’ve spent so much time, had so many headaches, and encountered so much complexity from what, in my...
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I’ve spent so much time, had so many headaches, and encountered so much complexity from what, in my estimation, boils down to this: trying to get something to work on multiple computers. It might be time to just go back to having one computer — a personal laptop — do everything....
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Array 1.16.0 Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
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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…
Epic Web Dev
Two Factor Auth is Included in the Epic Stack (tip) A Two Factor Authentication implementation has been added to the Epic Stack. Check it out!
over a year ago
wingolog
tracepoints: gnarly but worth it Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the . If the support library...
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Hey all, quick post today to mention that I added tracing support to the . If the support library for is available when Whippet is compiled, Whippet embedders can visualize the GC process. Like this!Whippet GC libraryLTTng Click above for a full-scale screenshot of the trace...
Joel Gascoigne
Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here&#x27;s why * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup. This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
Alice GG
How to publish your Godot game on Mac Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized. This is meant to...
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Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized. This is meant to prevent naive users from installing malware while running software from unknown sources. Since this process is convoluted, it stops many indie game developers from releasing their Godot...
Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
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The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
Ralph Ammer
Bergson — Why we live in the past Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson...
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Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is...
ByteofDev
A quick introduction to JavaScript Maps A quick introduction to the Maps datatype in JavaScript, and when to use it
over a year ago
Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
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I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
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In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page: "Which technology is worth learning in 2020?" And the most "upvoted" answer was: Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL Well,...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam A design jam on Crosscut-related ideas.
over a year ago
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
6 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
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In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
Marc Astbury
A quick summary one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
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one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
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In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React). The notification component has the following requirements: Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
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Why Naked Promises are Not Safe For Work > Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer...
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> Published on [FreeCodeCamp's Developer News](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/naked-promises-are-not-safe-for-work/). A followup for this was published in [Errors are not Exceptions](https://www.swyx.io/errors-not-exceptions/)
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Array 1.0.9 We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update ...
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We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features…
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
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Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president. While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • James's Notes James Lindenbaum’s notes on possible extensions to Crosscut
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
Nelson's Weblog
The Sandbaggers I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the...
a year ago
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I just finished an extraordinary late-70s TV show, The Sandbaggers. It’s British spy TV. While the show name-checks James Bond frequently the soul of it is more of a Le Carré thing. Intelligence as a series of dismal political battles between underpaid civil servants at the home...
David Heinemeier...
A writer's Ruby Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the...
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Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the stereotype of nerds in uncoordinated outfits or using pocket protectors. But style in the broad sense of aesthetics. Many appear imbued with fundamental opposition to the idea that how...
David Crawshaw
2014-05-14 ti.arc.nasa.gov/news/ladee-sband-evolved-antenna/
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Onsen Unreality Our experience at an onsen 'theme park' in Tokyo
11 months ago
Blog System/5
Code reviews: A success story A tale on how a strict code review process helped ship a bug-free feature
a year ago
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
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After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app: 📁 project ├─ 📁 app | ├─ 📁 src | └─ 📄 package.json └─ 📁 storybook ├─ 📁 .storybook | ├─ 📄 main.js | └─ 📄 preview.js └─ 📄...
David Heinemeier...
Universal Basic Dead End While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer...
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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...
TokyoDev
The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
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In November 2021, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2021-developer-survey), please check them out! With 435 people responding, I had about 20% more responses than [2020's...
Marco.org
Overcast 5.1 with Instant Search ▶️ The first thing someone does in a podcast app is add some podcasts, and most active Overcast...
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▶️ The first thing someone does in a podcast app is add some podcasts, and most active Overcast users add at least two new podcasts each month. Over 80% of podcasts are added to Overcast by searching, with the vast majority as searches for a specific podcast by name (rather...
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The End of Localhost > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
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> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
On Life and Lisp
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:...
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Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tradeoffs to Continuous Software? I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of...
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I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable truths we sometimes have to break to people is that software isn't just never “done”. Worse even, it rots… The practices of...
alexwlchan
A Python function to iterate through an S3 Bucket Inventory For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a...
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For a couple of our S3 buckets at work, we use S3 Bucket Inventory to track their contents. Once a week, it creates an inventory; a collection of compressed CSV files that describe every object in the bucket. If we want to analyse everything in the bucket, reading this inventory...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
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I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out: See the...
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Strategy Turns What got you here won't get you there.
over a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
The managerial fear of the unknown There is nothing as inevitable as a re-org when a new VP joins. When a new executive joins they’re...
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There is nothing as inevitable as a re-org when a new VP joins. When a new executive joins they’re often overwhelmed by the amount of context they need to absorb to start being effective. The more seasoned ones aren’t pertrubed by this: they understand that gathering this context...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it? Even though you did npm i from...
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You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it? Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run <tool> <command> it won’t work because that tool is not in your global path. You could install <tool> globally, but then if you have <tool> in multiple...
A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
6 months ago
tonsky.me
Talk: Clojure workflow with Sublime Text @ SciCloj A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload and Clojure+. We discuss many usability choices, implementation details, and broader observations and insights regarding Clojure editors and tooling in general.
bt RSS Feed
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create...
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I’m a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
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Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.  Now you can deploy...
Tinloof - Blog
Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
MMapped blog
The numeric tower fiasco
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
Timothy Gu
over a year ago
TokyoDev
TokyoDev’s 2024 Recap: Challenges, Milestones, and the Road Ahead In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my...
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In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my plate, but while I’ve succeeded at passing off responsibilities to others, I somehow didn’t gain any more free time. This is because working with new people also created new ideas...
Irrational...
What does it mean to be a cost center? When I shared my piece on Measuring an engineering organization, one point I made was that focusing...
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When I shared my piece on Measuring an engineering organization, one point I made was that focusing too heavily on optimization metrics (e.g. things like CI/CD time) can turn engineering into a cost center. That’s not because optimization metrics aren’t important, they’re...
Eric Bailey
Insulin dump My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Treating the Symptoms If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app called “Arc Search”. Its key feature? It’ll browse the web for you. What happened? “Surfing the web” used to be — and still can be — the funnest part about being on the web! How did...
Liz Denys
Black & white cookie jars, 2024 The classic New York City treat reimagined as a pill jar
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
Be the Villain
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
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We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA. It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
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Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
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I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...
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Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
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In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
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Rust is more than safety
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Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the...
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Beware of the social ideas * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps [https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
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It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
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Recently What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
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What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work. Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to end. Reading I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
Alex MacCaw
Advice to my younger self I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
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over a year ago
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full: If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say? That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
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Here’s Sean Voisen writing about how programming is a feeling: For those of us who enjoy programming, there is a deep satisfaction that comes from solving problems through well-written code, a kind of ineffable joy found in the elegant expression of a system through our favorite...
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The Criteo case: a big deal for Big Tech
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The Codist
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I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
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Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
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Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving scale by doing things that don&#x27;t scale * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Over the past...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Over the past few years of my journey with building startups, I’ve made a conscious effort to absorb as much of the fascinating insights and learnings of those more experienced than me. Startups...
Max Countryman
Mindset for New Engineering Managers Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common...
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Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common mistake is to assume that our previous expertise will make this transition seamless. In reality, it's important to recognize the need to shift mindsets entirely.
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Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by...
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Near the beginning of my career, I was working for a startup that made database software used by other companies in their production infrastructure. The premise was that our super-fast database had a computing framework that would let you do things in real-time that usually took...
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Array 1.6.0 One of the most fun weeks we've had so far with our UX - resizable and touch-enabled dashboards with...
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One of the most fun weeks we've had so far with our UX - resizable and touch-enabled dashboards with a new display mode, Microsoft Teams support, and…
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Elad Blog
When Executives Break When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or...
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When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or boosters) to growth will turn out to be the composition of your executive team. If your executives are not able to scale with the company, entire functions may be thrown into...
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I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
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how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
James Vaughan's blog
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The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
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On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
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You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
Liz Denys
Cancel Like Everything Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a...
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Tracy Jenkins's For Like Ever poster is an iconic piece of "the millenial aesthetic." I've made a new poster inspired by For Like Ever and the current need for social distance: The texture in the clouds below the text is made up of no symbols and small x's: I've made an A4...
Elad Blog
Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on Macro, Tech and Startups Video and transcript from a fireside chat with Brad Gerstner of Altimeter
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Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
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Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
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The difference between web designers and web developers If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web...
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If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
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About Crows
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Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
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Forty-two I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
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I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
HTMHell
Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=”preload” by Alistair Shepherd Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent...
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by Alistair Shepherd Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent calendar last year you may have already read many of my thoughts on the subject. If not, read Getting started with Web Performance when you’re done here! This year I’m back for more web...
Seán Barry
What does Quitting the Rat Race Mean to Me? Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what...
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Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what 'quitting the rat race' means to me.
Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
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I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them. So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
Steve Klabnik
Twitter ghosts
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My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
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The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
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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...
Miguel Carranza
Effective code review Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most...
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Fortunately, I don’t think the necessity of code review is a controversial topic these days for most tech companies1. However, it is not always implemented as well as it should. In this post, I will describe some practices that I try to follow when opening pull requests, and that...
Making software...
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the...
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Kevin Chen
How Cruise vehicles return to the garage autonomously in heavy rain Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC...
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Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC permit (PDF) only allows services in light rain. I’ve always wondered how they implement this operationally. For example, Waymo preemptively launches all cars with operators in the...
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Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that...
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Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star…
Ink & Switch
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
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To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights &rarr; I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
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I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud. Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years. It’s been...
Liz Denys
A very MIT signals problem I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there....
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I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there. Signals and systems can be used to describe many different problems because it is simply an abstraction which describes a physical, mathematical, or computational system by the way...
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Unsupervised Learning: Feature Selection Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality!!
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A Reality Where CSS and JavaScript Don’t Exist 2021-11-03 This is my personal opinion. Please leave your pitchforks at the door… I love CSS. I can spend hours deep diving into a website’s CSS system and never find myself getting bored. It’s pretty amazing to see the problems...
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery? Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an...
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Why do many web developers hate jQuery? ¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery? The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :) When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
Sometimes It Works...
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...
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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...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to help your hometown? Pack up and leave * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve done a lot...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve done a lot of traveling [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] throughout my journey with Buffer. I started in the UK, and since then I’ve lived in Hong...
HTMHell
#24 A placeholder is not a label Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input...
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Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input element needs a label. When screen reader users access a form field, the label is announced with the field type (e.g. first name, edit text). If it’s missing, users might not know...
Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
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over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names 2021-02-25 It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName. What is...
Daniel Marino
My current prototyping environment The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them....
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The other day I shared why I prefer coding prototypes rather than using design apps to create them. My prototyping environment has evolved over the years. I love to hear how others build prototypes, so I thought I’d share where I’m at now. Maybe you’ll find it useful. A single...
Eric Bailey
The world does not revolve around your product
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cat and Mouse Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse...
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a year ago
Read more about RSS Club. When we first moved in to our current house, we had a mouse problem. Well, I should say “mice” problem because it was definitely plural and not just one solitary mouse chillin in the house. As a new homeowner, I was distraught. I tried all kinds...
Josh Collinsworth
This isn't the Time, But it's the Perfect Time; Goodbye, Instagram …Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company...
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…Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I can actually continue supporting Instagram and the company behind it, however passively or at whatever seemingly insignificant scale. And while I was zeroing in on this answer anyway, the events of the last couple of weeks have clearly...
The Codist
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Estimates In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the...
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over a year ago
In my long career, I've dealt with many different kinds of estimating, from the early days in the 1980s when there was no estimating because no one had any idea how to do it to my last job where estimation was always demanded but never actually relevant. In
TokyoDev
Paternity Leave in Japan If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to...
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If you're an expectant father in Japan, you may be considering taking paternity leave. Compared to many places in the world, Japan's policy is generous, on paper at least: you're legally entitled to take up to a year off, and be compensated during that time. However, you'll...
Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
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11 months ago
First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
Yale e360
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the...
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It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes. Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project. Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line. This happens to me as much as...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
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Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
Seldo.com
The case for frameworks
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David Crawshaw
2015-07-07 "I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types...
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"I hated types, I admit it. And when I hate something, I study it. So I went to the vatican of types and when I came back, my hate was deeper and more nuanced."
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s...
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The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go standard library. Even I can understand it!
Steve Klabnik
Rails 4.0.0-beta1 to Rails 4.0.0-rc1
over a year ago
TokyoDev
The Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination: My Experience Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country....
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Several years ago, I went to Japan on holiday for the first time, and fell in love with the country. I started studying the Japanese language and began to wonder what it would take for me to move there and work as a software developer. While still at university, I had an...
alexwlchan
Getting an Important Internet Checkmark to follow your cursor Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated...
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Are you an Important Brand? Do you have an Internet Presence? Do you worry about being Impersonated Or Parodied Online? Then I may have something for you. On your social media, you can bask in the warmth of an Important Internet Checkmark which tells your users that they’re...
A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
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In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper. Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use. I don't know. I guess...
A Beautiful Site
Password protection using .htaccess and .htpasswd The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and...
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The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd files. .htpasswd # Create a text file with the following text: username:password The usernames and passwords are stored in this file, one per line, separated by a colon. To...
James Vaughan's blog
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
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Making software...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
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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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Grateful: Colors in console.log() So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every...
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So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50%...
TokyoDev
Which countries are overrepresented in Japan's foreigner population? As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our...
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As a Canadian, I noticed that we were relatively overrepresented her in Japan compared to our American neighbours. While the US's population is about nine times of ours, their population in Japan was only five times ours. This got me curious, and so I did some number crunching,...
Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
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From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
macwright.com
Remix notes Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
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Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections: The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade. Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive. I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
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I started my first executive job search when I was 25. Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers, which I turned down to join Uber. It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role. If you start...
Tony Finch's blog
performance of random floats A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly concerned about how neat the code is, and I didn’t pay attention to its performance. Recently, a comment from Oliver Hunt and a blog post from Alisa Sireneva prompted me to wonder if I...
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how to use web workers with typescript A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
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somenice
Whistler High Note Trail Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
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Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
Elad Blog
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
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Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
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I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here: I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type. Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-05 www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/12311322-planetary-exploration-timelines.html
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The Changelog
Lessons of Social Media from BBSs In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see...
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In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see the argument that BBSs are a part of the Internet origin story that is often omitted. Surprised because I was there for BBSs, and even ran one, and didn’t really consider them part...
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes !!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
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over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to computers! This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
A Day In The Life...
My first attempts with Unity My first attempts with Unity
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Irrational...
Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
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There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
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Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
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In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
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Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of. This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
Steve Klabnik
Ouroboros
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Build better libraries, use dev warnings Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital,...
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Suppose you're making a cool library that sums numbers in an array. You add a new option, inital, that lets users specify an initial value for the summation: sum([1, 1, 1], { inital: 10 }) // 13 Oh no! You made a typo — of course you meant initial, not inital. What's done is...
Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
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Sometimes It Works...
A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the...
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A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the other option ¶A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? Hiring goes a little something like this: Hire traditionally — firewall interviewing (resumé culling, technical testing, group...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
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over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
Seldo.com
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tonsky.me
Logo: Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
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A Smart Bear
How much of success is luck? "You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours,...
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"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
Alex Meub
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...
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over a year ago
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,...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Build system insights
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Eric Bailey
An introduction to macOS Head Pointer
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Josh Collinsworth
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification? First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
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First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1 I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
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When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot
Maggie Appleton
Growing the Evergreens Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them
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On Test Automation
PNSQC 2024 - experience report While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client...
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While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client base on the North American side of the Atlantic has slowly but surely started to grow, mainly in the United States. As someone who really enjoys working with and learning from...
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
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Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
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(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024) I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
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I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
Sometimes It Works...
Starting Today Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but...
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Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of positivity towards the rest of my life. The first 30 years have been filled with growth, learning, angst, pressure and a bundle of other wonderfully...
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The gift of constraints One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
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One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite. I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15...
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Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it. So I asked people on Mastodon: what git jargon do you find...
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The most useful B2B SaaS product metrics So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This...
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So, you're building a B2B SaaS product. Everyone knows you've got to measure stuff to succeed. This is not news. What, why, and how? These are the…
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[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
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Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
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Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
Ralph Ammer
The Creative Switch This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch...
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This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to add Tailwind 3 to Docusaurus 2 in 2022 We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of...
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We use Docusaurus at work, and while it shipped v2 this year it still has ([as of v2.3](https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/issues/2961)) not shipped with any Tailwind support at all. Googled and found [this...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
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over a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
Yale e360
[Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at...
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I just finished reading Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Data and Goliath." I was apprehensive at first -- I'm a big fan of Schneier's posts online, but I found this randomly at the library and I was hoping not to be disappointed. In the end, it was well worth the read. The book...
Copper • A blog...
Reverse engineering the MacBook clamshell mode You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of...
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over a year ago
You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you...
Kagi Blog
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
a year ago
Irrational...
Navigators In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is...
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a year ago
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes: Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
Epic Web Dev
Preparing for a workshop with Kent C. Dodds (tip) Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step...
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a year ago
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step instructions, resources, and hands-on exercises to level up.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart...
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a year ago
The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart and share!
Sometimes It Works...
Code: Selfish Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding...
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over a year ago
Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding selfishly. This isn’t what you think. Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
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a year ago
An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
Steve Klabnik
When should I use String vs &str?
8 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I’m going to quickly breakdown the update I’ve...
The History of the...
Our Online Homes Need Infastructure A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we...
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3 months ago
A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together? The post Our Online Homes Need Infastructure appeared first on The History of the Web.
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
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a year ago
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Blog of Simple...
Does Google sell your data?
over a year ago
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3 In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
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over a year ago
In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
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Setting up super fast Cypress tests on GitHub Actions Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array...
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over a year ago
Moving fast is easy. Moving fast with confidence is hard. If you've been keeping track of The Array release posts you know that we prioritize…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
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a year ago
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Making software...
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don't pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
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over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many...
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over a year ago
What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time. For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
ByteofDev
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...
3 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
blag
Towards Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute This is a chronicle of my experiment where I set out to insert 1B rows in SQLite
over a year ago
ByteofDev
Building the fastest object and array differ How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
over a year ago
Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!? At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the...
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over a year ago
At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!? Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered...
Vadim Kravcenko
Self-Organizing Teams This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Self-Organizing Teams appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
David Crawshaw
log4j: between a rock and a hard place log4j: between a rock and a hard place 2021-12-11 What does backwards compatibility mean to...
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over a year ago
log4j: between a rock and a hard place 2021-12-11 What does backwards compatibility mean to me? Backwards compatibility should not have forced log4j to keep LDAP/JNDI URLs The other side of compatibility: being cautious adding features There is more than enough written on the...
charity.wtf
Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it,...
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over a year ago
I recently wrote a twitter thread on the proper role of architects, or as I put it, tongue-in-cheek-ily, whether or not architect is a “bullshit role”. It got a LOT of reactions (2.5 weeks later, the thread is still going!!), which I would sort into roughly three camps: “OMG this...
alexwlchan
Writing a Mac app to review my photos I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures...
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I take a lot of photos. When I’m trying to get a particular shot, I’ll often take multiple pictures in the hope of getting at least one that’s good – and then my camera roll is full of similar images. I always intend to go back and clean up my pictures afterwards – pick the best...
TokyoDev
Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
Epic Web Dev
The Drawbacks of Bundling All CSS Files Together (tip) Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate...
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a year ago
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate style sheets for better control and performance.
Elad Blog
Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
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Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
bt RSS Feed
Billing for One CSS Change Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed...
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over a year ago
Billing for One CSS Change 2019-11-29 Every second you spend working as a designer should be billed back to the client. A simple button color change? Bill them. Additional links added to an existing menu? Send that invoice over. Some basic typeface changes? Don’t do it for...
Steve Klabnik
Ditching Google Chat with XMPP
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
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over a year ago
The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
Liz Denys
Early one morning The view shortly after waking up while camping at Marshall Beach, Point Reyes.
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 01 · Welcome to the Keyhive An introduction to the Keyhive project
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia FizzBuzz
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Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components? This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
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over a year ago
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it. The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
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Notes on Serverless GraphQL with AWS AppSync My Notes on Slobodan Stojanovic's Serverless GraphQL with AppSync talk
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Raising money is less stressful than bootstrapping Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are...
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Since PostHog raised Venture Capital (VC), we've had far less stress, and far more fun. There are lots of myths around what it's like run a business…
Stephen Wolfram...
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible...
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The Importance of Multiway Systems It’s all about systems where there can in effect be many possible paths of history. In a typical standard computational system like a cellular automaton, there’s always just one path, defined by evolution from one state to the next. But in a...
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
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over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
Blog - Bitfield...
Constraints in Go Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build...
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Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets. Let’s geek out.
Computer Things
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
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New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
The History of the...
Where does SEO come from? In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It...
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In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn't be owned. The post Where does SEO come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it,...
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The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it, email me for your prize! Here’s some more images of the ware for your enjoyment.
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
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Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
Joel Gascoigne
The maker/manager transition phase * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Paul Graham...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Paul Graham [http://paulgraham.com] has a fantastic article on the topic of scheduling work as a maker and as a manager [http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html], which I’ve drawn insights...
A Beautiful Site
How to use the PHP ternary operator When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to...
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When I learned how to use the ternary operator years ago, I fell in love with it. What a cool way to simplify assignments based on a condition. If you're not sure what the ternary operator is or how it works, you're missing out on a really cool piece of programming...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, Griff. You were a good boy. A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend.
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
CFP Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few CFPs
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A Beautiful Site
Flushing DNS cache on macOS Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP...
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Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed Notice that last part — that's why this is the best method. You get an audible "cache flushed" almost instantaneously, and the whole process becomes...
Irrational...
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs). Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
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Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
davidyat.es
Deprecating shortcodes with render hooks
8 months ago
Yale e360
The most important goal in designing software is understandability When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is...
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When you're designing a piece of software, the single most important thing to design for is understandability. Security, performance, and correctness are all important, but they come after understandability. Don't get me wrong, all of those are important. Software that isn't...
David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
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I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
A sad day for Rust
over a year ago
macwright.com
My favorite books of 2022 This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The ratio of fiction...
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This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The ratio of fiction to non-fiction was skewed toward non-fiction. I think overall I read fewer amazing books than last year, when I finished 20, but also fewer duds - though there certainly were some...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2025 Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
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Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
David Heinemeier...
Jaguar is lost but Volvo knows the way Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as...
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Jaguar's new rebrand is getting murdered online, and for good reason. The clichés are as thick as the diversity pandering is dated. CREATE EXUBERANT. LIVE VIVID. DELETE ORDINARY. You'd think these were slogans from a Will Ferrel bit about insufferable marketing trons, but nope,...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal...
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Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4) 2022-03-12 I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc. The only small...
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
David Heinemeier...
As we forgive those who trespass against us Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes...
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Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes Coinbase and we at 37signals did a few years back. So yesterday, I did two separate interviews with media outlets on the topic. And we spoke in part about those early weeks of...
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
6 months ago
Making software...
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a...
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Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator 2021-10-15 A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books written in C++. A...
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SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books written in C++. A common need in GUI programs is a callback. E.g. when a button is clicked we need to call a function with some data identifying which button was clicked. Callback is therefore a combo...
James Vaughan's blog
How To Make HTTP Requests In Elm
over a year ago
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Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was...
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The Ware for March 2023 is shown below: Thank again to spida for submitting this ware. I was certainly stumped when I first saw it! Again, some very big “clues” are not shown, which I will add to the post later if it turns out to be too difficult to guess.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Becoming an Asshole Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this...
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Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this part in there where he’s talking about a guy who worked for Apple and was known for being ruthless, stopping at nothing to negotiate the best deal for Apple. He was so aggressive yet...
Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer [https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of the things we started to do at around 6-7...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to seed, grow, and scale Developer Relations (and how we're doing it at PostHog) Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer...
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Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company. Our Developer Relations journey at PostHog has just begun, and…
Maggie Appleton
December 2023
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
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I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
alexwlchan
A bookmarklet to show which responsive image was chosen I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better...
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I’ve had a lot of fun fiddling with the images on this blog recently, and I think they’re better than when I started. I’ve read a bunch of articles on responsive images, and I’ve sprinkled the <picture> and <source> tags everywhere to offer images in a variety of sizes and...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language Your browser does not support the video tag.
7 months ago