Irrational...
Should we decompose our monolith?
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting
a microservices architecture, a...
9 hours ago
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting
a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid between the two, has become one of the
least-reversible decisions that most engineering organizations make.
Even migrating to a...
A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
14 hours ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about...
2 days ago
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla.
Most of that is gone now.
Links rot quickly,...
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day...
3 days ago
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I
thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some
reasons.
This came up today because I was trying to...
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...
3 days ago
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...
Computer Things
Why Not Comments
Logic For Programmers v0.3
Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a...
5 days ago
Logic For Programmers v0.3
Now available! It's a light release as I learn more about formatting a nice-looking book. You can see some of the differences between v2 and v3 here.
Why Not Comments
Code is written in a structured machine language, comments are written in an...
Confessions of a...
Celebrating 2^13 Subscribers & My Birthday
I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply...
5 days ago
I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply technical articles and making a living.
David Heinemeier...
Back in the market (Sonos Edition)
I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly...
5 days ago
I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly amps for in-ceiling speakers, but also some Ones, 3s, 5s. All of it. Because it Just Worked when it came to multi-room music. Now it doesn't, and it hasn't for a long time, so I've...
David Heinemeier...
Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early...
6 days ago
We had originally planned to go all-in on passkeys for ONCE/Campfire, and we built the early authentication system entirely around that. It was not a simple setup! Handling passkeys properly is surprisingly complicated on the backend, but we got it done. Unfortunately, the user...
Blog System/5
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than...
6 days ago
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
ntietz.com blog
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...
6 days ago
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...
elementary Blog
Package Releases Are Almost Done, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes,...
6 days ago
This month’s update is fairly brief since a lot of what we did last month was minor bug fixes, regression testing, updating metadata, taking screenshots, and releasing packages. We’re getting down to the last few items before we can release elementary OS 8. Read ahead to find out...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
a week ago
Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior.
Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind.
For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
a week ago
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
A Smart Bear
Legacy
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
a week ago
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
Irrational...
Executive translation.
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts
is Extract the Kernel, which argues
that executives...
a week ago
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts
is Extract the Kernel, which argues
that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong,
and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting
distracted by the narrow errors in their...
Irrational...
Video of Developing Eng Leadership Styles.
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering...
a week ago
The last chapter I wrote for Eng Executive’s Primer was this one about developing engineering leadership styles.
It’s an interesting chapter to me peronally, precisely because it’s not something I would have agreed with or written five years ago.
This past Friday I gave a...
David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
a week ago
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
Kagi Blog
We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...
a week ago
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
a week ago
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
a week ago
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
a week ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
Ink & Switch
01 · Welcome to the Beehive
An introduction to the Beehive project
a week ago
An introduction to the Beehive project
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
a week ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.”
Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.”
And in...
The History of the...
The Gift of Code
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time...
a week ago
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript
The post The Gift of Code appeared first on The History of the Web.
Computer Things
What could be added to TLA+
Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of...
a week ago
Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of the TLA+ foundation". Lamport released TLA+ in 1999 and shepherded its development for the past 25 years. Transferring ownership of TLA+ to the official foundation has been in the...
Alex Meub
Building a Removable Bike Basket for the Yepp Rack
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my...
a week ago
I wanted to add more hauling capacity to my bike and was looking for something compatible with my Yepp rear rack. I also use my rack with a child seat (the Yepp Maxi) which has a mechanism that allows it to attach and detach easily without sacrificing safety. I was thinking it...
Kagi Blog
Announcing The Assistant
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience,...
a week ago
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience, creating a smarter, faster, and more intuitive search.
Kevin Chen
Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently.
Over the past few...
a week ago
I’ve had a minor obsession with Waymo’s autonomous vehicle depots recently.
Over the past few months, I’ve flown a drone as part of a stakeout to understand how they work. And I’ve taken a deep dive into an apparent Waymo outage to find the company charging its electric vehicles...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
a week ago
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done.
The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
Tony Finch's blog
exponential rate limiting
Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets
without the buckets, I reviewed...
a week ago
Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets
without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting
for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas
that I hope will be more broadly interesting.
Exponential rate limiting uses an...
Ink & Switch
Provenance for science papers, local-first access control
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
a week ago
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
macwright.com
Recently
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
a week ago
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that...
a week ago
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly
predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people
will start misusing it"). When...
David Heinemeier...
Why don't more people use Linux?
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
a week ago
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
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...
a week ago
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...
bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating...
a week ago
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
ntietz.com blog
Reasons to write design docs
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half...
a week ago
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology.
Probably more, actually.
Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering.
It's...
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...
2 weeks ago
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...
Irrational...
Numbers go up.
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
2 weeks ago
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...
A Smart Bear
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy...
2 weeks ago
People love and forgive humans, not corporations. Expose your humanity to earn loyal, happy customers, even when you mess up.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Pull Request
A brief and biased history.
Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
– GitHub blog, Sat,
23 Feb 2008
When...
2 weeks ago
A brief and biased history.
Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
– GitHub blog, Sat,
23 Feb 2008
When GitHub launched, it had no code review.
Three
years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko
became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in
full:...
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
2 weeks ago
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
Confessions of a...
The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
2 weeks ago
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
David Heinemeier...
We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to...
2 weeks ago
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on...
Tony Finch's blog
GCRA: leaky buckets without the buckets
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting
algorithm. I thought it was really...
2 weeks ago
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting
algorithm. I thought it was really interesting, but I wasn’t
entirely satisfied with Brandur’s explanation, and the Wikipedia
articles on leaky buckets and GCRA are terrible, so here’s
my version.
what is GCRA?
GCRA is...
Confessions of a...
CPython Internals: What Happens Before Bytecode Execution Starts
Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading...
2 weeks ago
Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading to execution on the virtual machine
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Humble Link
I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is...
2 weeks ago
I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”.
2010: Everyone needs an "API"
2020: Everyone needs "AI"
2030: Everyone needs...
Stephen Wolfram...
Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next
So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I...
2 weeks ago
So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was great. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Nine...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor)
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not...
2 weeks ago
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did.
I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
Kagi Blog
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
Google search is in the news.
2 weeks ago
Google search is in the news.
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A
wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
2 weeks ago
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A
wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes.
And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well
built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
2 weeks ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids.
I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
bt RSS Feed
"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?"
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
2 weeks ago
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
Miguel Carranza
Full Circle
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my...
2 weeks ago
I’m back in Spain for my brother’s wedding. I rarely visit during the summer. The heat in my hometown is brutal, around 40 degrees Celsius (over 100 Fahrenheit for my imperial friends). Most people escape to the coast, just like my family did when I was a kid. I haven’t been here...
PostHog's RSS Feed
We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media
PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
2 weeks ago
PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to brand your startup so it isn't boring
The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the...
2 weeks ago
The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
David Heinemeier...
Children of You
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low...
2 weeks ago
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction. In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to...
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...
2 weeks ago
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...
somenice
Painting of Russet Lake
Summer in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, is a breathtaking experience, where the...
2 weeks ago
Summer in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, is a breathtaking experience, where the natural world is alive with vibrant colours and serene beauty. One of the most stunning scenes unfolds at Russet Lake, where the iconic Fissile Mountain is mirrored perfectly in the...
HTMHell
#33 make me one (input) with everything
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad...
2 weeks ago
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad code
<label for="textinput">First name</label>
<input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name">
Issues and how to fix them
The...
Paolo Amoroso's...
How to build Medley Interlisp
<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are...
2 weeks ago
<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are available for all major operating system, it's also possible to compile it from source.
I first built Medley from source when I wanted to run it on my Raspberry Pi 400 and no ARM64...
alexwlchan
Mountaintop moments
Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went.
I met new people, hung out...
2 weeks ago
Last weekend, I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe, and I’m so glad I went.
I met new people, hung out with some Internet friends in-person, and saw some great theatre.
It was fun, but also exhausting.
By the final day, I was worn out and ready to sleep in my own bed – but now I’m...
ntietz.com blog
Using search as a primary datastore since the docs said not to
Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip.
Then I just have to do...
2 weeks ago
Look, I'm sorry, but if the docs say not to do something that's like catnip.
Then I just have to do it.
So when I saw that the Typesense docs say not to use it as a primary datastore?
Well well well, that's what we'll have to do.
I spent a little bit of time figuring out what a...
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or...
3 weeks ago
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or
be useful at a fundamental level.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
New Workflow for Publishing Notes: Content in Dropbox, Code in GitHub
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s...
3 weeks ago
I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown.
Before
Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website,...
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow
vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
3 weeks ago
vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster through a pipe. Francesco already did a deep dive on using vmsplice to make things fast. However, while experimenting with it, I noticed that, when not using vmsplice, Linux pipes are...
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much?
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
3 weeks ago
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy.
When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that
your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one!
You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
3 weeks ago
You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
David Heinemeier...
Merchants of complexity
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
3 weeks ago
It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't.
This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
Neil Panchal
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
3 weeks ago
If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table...
3 weeks ago
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents.
Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation.
This article describes how I...
Stephen Wolfram...
What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models
The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine...
3 weeks ago
The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Netlify Public Folder, Part V: Now With an Image CDN
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave...
3 weeks ago
On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave graciously gave a shoutout to my Netlify “public folder” workflow, which reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about.
Chris mentions how he prefers being able to drop...
Computer Things
An idea for teaching formal methods better
I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on...
3 weeks ago
I was recently commissioned by a company to make a bespoke TLA+ workshop with a strong emphasis on reading specifications. I normally emphasize writing specs, so this one will need a different approach.
While working on it, I had an idea that might make teaching TLA+— and other...
Dan Slimmon
The queueing shell game
Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever...
3 weeks ago
Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever they're needed. Queues are spontaneously occurring phenomena, just like a waterfall or a thunderstorm.
alexwlchan
create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images
I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images.
I need...
3 weeks ago
I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images.
I need image thumbnails in a lot of projects, and I wanted a single tool I could use in all of them rather than having multiple copies of the same code.
It takes three arguments:
Your...
Dan Slimmon
Podcast: Small Batches with Adam Hawkins
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We...
3 weeks ago
I was recently delighted to be interviewed by Adam Hawkins on his podcast Small Batches. We discussed a huge variety of topics. Here is the full episode, and on that page you’ll find meticulously timestamped links to specific topics. Check out the rest of Adam’s podcast, it’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blog Posts vs. Social Posts
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience):
I started writing more blog...
3 weeks ago
From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience):
I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X. You get a spike of views when you share something on X, but that dies off quickly. If you provide great value with your...
David Heinemeier...
Software estimates have never worked and never will
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and...
3 weeks ago
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet the...
Julia Evans
Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS
About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in
this blog post, a playground
where you can learn how...
3 weeks ago
About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in
this blog post, a playground
where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records.
I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementation though (to quote the release blog
post: “following the DNS RFCs? not exactly”),...
ntietz.com blog
Sometimes, I can't talk
Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other.
We live in a society, and we...
3 weeks ago
Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other.
We live in a society, and we have to interact with other people.
A lot of that communication happens through language, especially spoken and signed language.
For many of us, this language happens so freely and...
David Heinemeier...
Where at least I know I'm free
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people...
4 weeks ago
I used to find the American self-image of being this uniquely freedom-loving, freedom-having people delusional. Sure, I'd think, you're not North Korea or Venezuela, but is that really a standard worth celebration? Shouldn't America compare itself to higher alternatives, like...
A Smart Bear
The mid-market briar patch
Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
4 weeks ago
Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
Darek Kay
Web push notifications: issues and limitations
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the...
4 weeks ago
In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs.
Notification settings on macOS
Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
Confessions of a...
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation...
4 weeks ago
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance optimization—something I truly enjoy discussing.
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, August 2024
The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
a month ago
The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2024
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS...
a month ago
The ware for July 2024 is an Ingenico Axium DX8000. I hadn’t had a chance to tear down a modern POS terminal myself, so it was pretty interesting to see all the anti-tamper traces built into the product (thank you jackw01 for sharing it!). I wonder how effective these are, and...
Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
a month ago
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES encryption
AES is an amazing, state-of-the-art encryption system, and it’s built right
in to Go as part of...
a month ago
AES is an amazing, state-of-the-art encryption system, and it’s built right
in to Go as part of the standard library. It’s also incredibly easy to use.
Let’s see how!
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Iterative Building and Decision Making
Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right?
This...
a month ago
Imagine you’re driving a dirt road and you come to a fork. Which way do you go, left or right?
This decision is much easier to make if you’ve been traveling that road for the last hour and you’re sitting there in your truck facing the reality of the decision. You can see the...
David Heinemeier...
The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen!
The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately...
a month ago
The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately liked a lot about it. The keyboard is a big step up over the MacBook Pro, primarily because of the 50% longer key travel. And I love the matte screen and 3:2 aspect ratio. Both feel...
Computer Things
Texttools dot py
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
a month ago
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image:
Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
alexwlchan
Plates and states
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child.
I...
a month ago
I was recently visiting Vermont for a work trip – my first time in the USA since I was a child.
I was drawn to the license plates on passing cars, and how they look different to the cars I’m used to.
Whenever I visit new places, I enjoy looking for the tiny bits of infrastructure...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
a month ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year.
However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
a month ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year.
However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
Ink & Switch
02 · Tracking provenance
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
a month ago
Automatically tracking provenance in computational documents
the singularity is...
Dangerous Misinformation
When I Google myself, I get this infobox:
As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
a month ago
When I Google myself, I get this infobox:
As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4”
Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
ntietz.com blog
You should make a new programming language
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple.
Few of us make programming...
a month ago
Every software engineer uses a programming language, usually multiple.
Few of us make programming languages.
This makes sense, because the work we need to get done can typically be done just fine in the languages that exist.
Those already have people making them better.
Let's...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Impressionist Blogging Movement
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI...
a month ago
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI and the future of design (emphasis mine):
Now, what actually is AI? The Italian philosopher and technology ethicist Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t...
Blog System/5
Picking glibc versions at runtime
Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of...
a month ago
Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's take a look at how dynamic linking works and what the options are.
A Smart Bear
Individual efficiency vs administrative efficiency
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
a month ago
When to prioritize individual autonomy, and when to standardize for global optimization.
Basta’s Notes
No hassle detected!
The importance of tools
a month ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Failed Personal Site Redesign
Me a few weeks ago:
tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build...
a month ago
Me a few weeks ago:
tfw when you have an idea for a personal website redesign, and then you build it, and then you hate it, and then you have to decide whether to ship it anyway or keep what you have
As you can probably guess from the title[1], I decided to keep what I have and...
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
a month ago
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
a month ago
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
charity.wtf
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
a month ago
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here!
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
a month ago
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Deno De-emphasizes HTTP Imports
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure...
a month ago
I’ve been a long-time fan of Deno and their ethos of following the web platform. But I’m not sure how I feel about their latest admission which makes their dependency story more like npm and less like the web.
Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. It...
bt RSS Feed
Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
a month ago
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
a month ago
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much.
I thought I more or less understood the...
Ink & Switch
01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research
Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical...
a month ago
Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical research.
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
a month ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Just Build Websites
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of...
a month ago
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure.
The other day an image surfaced on Taylormade’s account which showcases Tommy Fleetwood playing some of their newest...
PostHog's RSS Feed
7 best session replay tools for mobile apps (iOS & Android)
1. LogRocket Typical users: Product managers, engineers, support teams What is LogRocket? LogRocket...
a month ago
1. LogRocket Typical users: Product managers, engineers, support teams What is LogRocket? LogRocket is a product experience platform that focuses on…
ntietz.com blog
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
a month ago
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language.
It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript.
This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
Blog - Bitfield...
Functional programming in Go
Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go.
This article explains...
a month ago
Thanks to generics, there are some interesting new ways to program in Go.
This article explains how we can use functional programming techniques like
Map, Filter, and Reduce, and what kind of problems they might help us to
solve.
A Smart Bear
Double your productivity without more work or stress
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this...
a month ago
People love to say that getting "1% better per day" makes you 37x better after a year, but this obviously makes no sense. But 2x better is possible.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success
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