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Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
Jibran’s Perspective
Deploying Ruby on Rails to AWS with Kamal As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback...
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As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback collection SaaS. The app is built in Ruby on Rails and given all the nice things I’ve heard about Kamal; I decided to use it for deploying the app. The experience has been phenomenal;...
Making software...
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
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CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
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I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
HTMHell
HTML: The Bad Parts by Mayank You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by...
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by Mayank You've probably heard statements along the lines of "HTML is already accessible by default" or "You don't need to reinvent this perfectly fine HTML control". I consider these to be more of general claims rather than universal truths. It's extremely important for web...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some...
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I read Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” a while back and have been meaning to publish some of my highlighted excerpts and notes. It’s always hard reading a book like this because I highlight so much and have so many thoughts that I could spend hours and hours rehashing...
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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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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
It’s Humans All the Way Down On the Aboard podcast, Paul Ford half-jokingly notes that everybody thinks everyone else’s job is...
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On the Aboard podcast, Paul Ford half-jokingly notes that everybody thinks everyone else’s job is easy. That’s why “AI” is going to replace so many people. Here’s Paul articulating this line of thiking: What is a lawyer? A lawyer is somebody who moves contracts around. Well, a...
wingolog
here we go again Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my...
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Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my mid-fourties, and so I have seen some garbage governments in my time; one of the worst was Trump’s election in 2016. My heart ached in so many ways, but most of all for immigrants in the US....
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
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
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As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
A Beautiful Site
CSS drop caps Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight,...
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Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight, or style of the first letter in the first sentence of a paragraph. We can easily reproduce this effect on webpages by using the :first-letter pseudo element. Writing the styles...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Making uLisp more usable on the Cardputer <![CDATA[It's a joy to use the Cardputer uLisp Machine, a nice little microcontroller system that...
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<![CDATA[It's a joy to use the Cardputer uLisp Machine, a nice little microcontroller system that runs uLisp. But after a short experience I had to put aside my Cardputer due to a showstopper issue that made it impractical to program the device. Since then a good workaround...
Yale E360
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
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Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
Julia Evans
git branches: intuition & reality Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find...
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot, and I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it different from how git actually works? So in...
Blog of Simple...
Improve your e-commerce performance with analytics
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python I will be redoing this session because the previous one had to be cancelled.
9 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Twitter ghosts
over a year ago
General Robots
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics (An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong...
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(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
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Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
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How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
Irrational...
Exploring for strategy. A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to...
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A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to one particular approach without considering alternatives that would work better for their current circumstances. This happens when engineers want to pick tools solely because they...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I made SumatraPDF crash less You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making...
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You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making SumatraPDF crash less. SumatraPDF is a Windows desktop app. It’s a fast viewer for PDF, ePub, comic books etc.. It’s small and yet full of features. Know thy crashes The most...
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
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In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
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I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
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In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
Liz Denys
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker' When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
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When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
Eric Bailey
Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight....
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Slack went from IRC-but-with-WebKit to critical piece of business infrastructure almost overnight. I’m a big fan. It freed us from the tyranny of passive aggressive email chains, and when practiced with good etiquette quickly became my favorite way of communicating via text at...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract <![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
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<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came. In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
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Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
bt RSS Feed
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on...
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Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD 2023-06-05 VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn’t cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a hacky...
Maggie Appleton
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
over a year ago
Yale E360
I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be...
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A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic. He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
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How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
What is a react component, anyways? I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write...
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I used to teach a class on React. There’s no better way to start a hands-on course than “Let’s write a simple component!”. But time after time I hear — “Vladimir, what’s a component, anyways?”. Bah, what a question! It’s a react thingie. React apps are made of components. Why do...
David Heinemeier...
Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
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History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
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I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example: $ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly revamped web site, and the Judges have...
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?) The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so that as many of them as possible work on modern...
Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch...
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Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called main) have diverged. There are two things that make this situation hard: If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
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Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
bt RSS Feed
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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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...
A Beautiful Site
Avoiding timestamp errors when calculating dates in php When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to...
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When calculating dates in PHP, it is easy to add millisecond values such as 60 * 60 * 24 to increment the time by one day. This can become problematic for two main reasons. Issues with leap years # A year has approximately 365.25 days, hence a leap year occurs once every four...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Safely surfing the web Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
TokyoDev
Software Developer Salaries in Japan Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software...
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Understanding what software salaries developer in Japan are be tricky. As a whole, software development doesn’t pay exceptionally well: according to [a 2022...
TokyoDev
The 2024 TokyoDev Developer Survey Results Are Live! In September 2024, TokyoDev conducted our sixth annual survey of international developers living in...
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In September 2024, TokyoDev conducted our sixth annual survey of international developers living in Japan. This year’s survey had a total of 814 respondents, up 14% from last year’s survey. The results are now live, so please check out the full results, or read on for some of the...
The Pragmatic...
Is there a drop in software engineer job openings, globally? I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software...
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I dug into data from Indeed and Hacker News to try and work out if there’s a fall in software engineer job vacancies. It looks like there is, but not everywhere.
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The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
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This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Computer Things
State and time are the same thing Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten...
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Time is state Imagine I put an ordinary ticking quartz clock in an empty room. I walk in, and ten minutes later I walk out with two photograph prints.1 In the 1st one, the second hand is pointing at the top of the clock, in the 2nd it's pointing at the bottom. Are these two...
Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new...
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Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy. I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m writing this from the perspective of a DNS...