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David Heinemeier...
YouTube has earned its crown I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new...
19 hours ago
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YouTube has earned its crown

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

19 hours ago
I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behind the majority of the products they launch for longer than a KPI cycle. But when...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Writing: Blog Posts and Songs I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter,...
2 days ago
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Writing: Blog Posts and Songs

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

2 days ago
I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter, political activist, and inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) and the interviewer asks him how he approaches writing songs with social commentaries and critiques — something along...
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Basta’s Notes
Doing versus Delegating A staff+ skill
2 days ago
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Doing versus Delegating

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2 days ago
A staff+ skill
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Tony Finch's blog
p-fast trie, but smaller Previously, I wrote some sketchy ideas for what I call a p-fast trie, which is basically a wide...
2 days ago
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p-fast trie, but smaller

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

2 days ago
Previously, I wrote some sketchy ideas for what I call a p-fast trie, which is basically a wide fan-out variant of an x-fast trie. It allows you to find the longest matching prefix or nearest predecessor or successor of a query string in a set of names in O(log k) time, where k...
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Computer Things
Software books I wish I could read New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with...
2 days ago
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Software books I wish I could read

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

2 days ago
New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls, and more! Full release notes here. Software books I wish I could read I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book...
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Notifications Take back your attention.
2 days ago
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Digital hygiene: Notifications

from ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 days ago
Take back your attention.
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tonsky.me
We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current...
2 days ago
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We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles

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2 days ago
Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa. So...
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Acko.net
HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has...
3 days ago
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HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML

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3 days ago
Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
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David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is on the move Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
3 days ago
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Omarchy is on the move

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

3 days ago
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
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The History of the...
We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
3 days ago
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We Are Still the Web

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

3 days ago
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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TokyoDev
Extending My Japanese Visa as a Freelancer With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services...
4 days ago
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Extending My Japanese Visa as a Freelancer

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 days ago
With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa for another three years. I’m thrilled by this result, because my family and I recently moved to a small town in Kansai and have been enjoying our lives in Japan more than...
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Tony Finch's blog
p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to...
4 days ago
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p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map

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

4 days ago
Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you know of something, please let me know via the links in the footer! The gist is to throw away the tree and interior pointers from...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What...
5 days ago
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A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

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

5 days ago
I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute? Well, I looked around. I found some things I already knew about, e.g. Link protocols like mailto:, tel:, sms: and...
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Confessions of a...
Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
5 days ago
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Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance

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

5 days ago
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
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David Heinemeier...
Executives should be the least busy people If your executive calendar is packed back to back, you have no room for fires, customers, or...
a week ago
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Executives should be the least busy people

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

a week ago
If your executive calendar is packed back to back, you have no room for fires, customers, or serendipities. You've traded all your availability for efficiency. That's a bad deal. Executives of old used to know this! That's what the long lunches, early escapes to the golf course,...
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 012: Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar A secret master plan, the official launch of Automerge 3, and an update on Sketchy Calendars
a week ago
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Dispatch 012: Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar

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a week ago
A secret master plan, the official launch of Automerge 3, and an update on Sketchy Calendars
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Epic Web Dev
React Server Components with Vite and React-Router (tip) Create a small example app and send payloads from the server to the client using RSC's
a week ago
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React Server Components with Vite and React-Router (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
Create a small example app and send payloads from the server to the client using RSC's
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Computer Things
2000 words about arrays and tables I'm way too discombobulated from getting next month's release of Logic for Programmers ready, so I'm...
a week ago
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2000 words about arrays and tables

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

a week ago
I'm way too discombobulated from getting next month's release of Logic for Programmers ready, so I'm pulling a idea from the slush pile. Basically I wanted to come up with a mental model of arrays as a concept that explained APL-style multidimensional arrays and tables but also...
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Oxide Computer...
Our $100M Series B We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in...
a week ago
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Our $100M Series B

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

a week ago
We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in USIT with participation from all existing Oxide investors. To put that number in perspective: over the nearly six year lifetime of the company, we have raised $89M; our $100M...
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Alice GG
Playing with open source LLMs Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with...
a week ago
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Playing with open source LLMs

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

a week ago
Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy command line tools to write code using LLMs. This is a very nice change, since it suddenly makes AI compatible with my allergy to...
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David Heinemeier...
The beauty of ideals Ideals are supposed to be unattainable for the great many. If everyone could be the smartest,...
a week ago
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The beauty of ideals

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

a week ago
Ideals are supposed to be unattainable for the great many. If everyone could be the smartest, strongest, prettiest, or best, there would be no need for ideals — we'd all just be perfect. But we're not, so ideals exist to show us the peak of humanity and to point our ambition and...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally...
a week ago
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How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy

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

a week ago
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others, that’s why they call them “dependencies” after all! Lean in to it. Once your dependencies break — and they will, time breaks all things — then you can spend...
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The Codist
What Is A Good Programmer? Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming...
a week ago
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What Is A Good Programmer?

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

a week ago
Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high school class in 1973, which is pretty rare because few high schools offered such an opportunity back then. I
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David Heinemeier...
Building competency is better than therapy The world is waking to the fact that talk therapy is neither the only nor the best way to cure a...
a week ago
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Building competency is better than therapy

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

a week ago
The world is waking to the fact that talk therapy is neither the only nor the best way to cure a garden-variety petite depression. Something many people will encounter at some point in their lives. Studies have shown that exercise, for example, is a more effective treatment than...
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Computer Things
Programming Language Escape Hatches The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as...
2 weeks ago
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Programming Language Escape Hatches

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

2 weeks ago
The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as languages were part of the appeal is in figuring out how to express a program idiomatically, like a puzzle. As examples, he lists Haskell, Erlang, and J. All puzzle languages, the author...
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charity.wtf
How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected) I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the...
2 weeks ago
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How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected)

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2 weeks ago
I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product. Most of them I didn’t care about (there were, ahem, a lot of status updates and “service reliability announcements”, but I was mad about losing this one in particular, a...
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David Heinemeier...
It's a Beelink, baby It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs....
2 weeks ago
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It's a Beelink, baby

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

2 weeks ago
It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs. My journey started out with a Minisforum UM870, which is a lovely machine, but since then, I've come to really appreciate the work of Beelink.  In a crowded market for mini PCs,...
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TokyoDev
How to Network as a Developer (Without Feeling Sleazy) “One of the comments that sparked this article,” our founder Paul McMahon told me, “was someone...
2 weeks ago
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How to Network as a Developer (Without Feeling Sleazy)

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
“One of the comments that sparked this article,” our founder Paul McMahon told me, “was someone saying, ‘I don’t really want to do networking because it seems kind of sleazy. I’m not that kind of person.’” I guess that’s the key misconception people have when they hear...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Fixing Zed's debugger keybindings Zed has a good debugger built-in but their keybindings are crazy. Thankfully, you can remap them by...
2 weeks ago
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Fixing Zed's debugger keybindings

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
Zed has a good debugger built-in but their keybindings are crazy. Thankfully, you can remap them by opening menu Zed / Settings / Open key bindings and adding this to the file: { "use_key_equivalents": true, "bindings": { "f11": "debugger::StepInto", "f10":...
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Blog System/5
Bazel and action (non-) determinism A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
2 weeks ago
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Bazel and action (non-) determinism

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2 weeks ago
A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.
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ntietz.com blog -...
Covers as a way of learning music and code When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able...
2 weeks ago
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Covers as a way of learning music and code

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

2 weeks ago
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
AltTab for Mac OS AltTab solves a simple problem really well: it brings Windows-style Alt + Tab window switching to...
2 weeks ago
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AltTab for Mac OS

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
AltTab solves a simple problem really well: it brings Windows-style Alt + Tab window switching to Mac OS. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. I think Windows way of Alt - tabbing windows is better than Mac’s. It’s a must for someone like me, who switches between using Windows...
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Irrational...
Commenting on Notion docs via OpenAI and Zapier. One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge...
2 weeks ago
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Commenting on Notion docs via OpenAI and Zapier.

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2 weeks ago
One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge bases that comment on Notion documents. I was curious if I could hook this together following these requirements: No custom code hosting Prompt is editable within Notion rather than...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
lazy import of JavaScript modules When working on big JavaScript web apps, you can split the bundle in multiple chunks and import...
2 weeks ago
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lazy import of JavaScript modules

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2 weeks ago
When working on big JavaScript web apps, you can split the bundle in multiple chunks and import selected chunks lazily, only when needed. That makes the main bundle smaller, faster to load and parse. How to lazy import a module? let hljs = await...
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Confessions of a...
x86 Assembly Exercise #1: Toy kill Program (Solution) A step-by-step walkthrough of the toy kill program using raw Linux syscalls.
2 weeks ago
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x86 Assembly Exercise #1: Toy kill Program (Solution)

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2 weeks ago
A step-by-step walkthrough of the toy kill program using raw Linux syscalls.
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Irrational...
Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role. For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization...
2 weeks ago
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Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role.

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2 weeks ago
For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization with well‑understood goals, it’s easy to develop skill gaps without realizing it. Usually this happens because those skills were not particularly important in the environment you...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
vite /rollup manualChunks When building a large web app it’s possible to split the .js bundle into chunks and lazy load...
2 weeks ago
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vite /rollup manualChunks

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
When building a large web app it’s possible to split the .js bundle into chunks and lazy load certain parts only when needed. For example, in Edna I use markdown-it and highlight.js library only in a certain scenario. By putting it in it’s separate chunk, I save almost 1 MB of...
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Irrational...
Advancing the industry, part two. I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of “Things I’ve...
2 weeks ago
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Advancing the industry, part two.

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

2 weeks ago
I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of “Things I’ve learned in the first half of my career as I turn forty and have now worked roughly twenty years in the technology industry.” How do you write that and make it good? Don’t ask me. I...
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the singularity is...
The World After Wireheading Hold my hand, grow my skin Erica Western Geiger Counter Do you have any addictions? You may not...
2 weeks ago
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The World After Wireheading

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

2 weeks ago
Hold my hand, grow my skin Erica Western Geiger Counter Do you have any addictions? You may not register them as such, perhaps because they don’t lead to anything you consider harmful consequences. But you have them. In some ways, all your behavior is compulsive. What would the...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Increase software sales by 50% or more This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by...
3 weeks ago
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Increase software sales by 50% or more

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by Steve Pavlina Of all the things you can do to increase your sales, one of the highest leverage activities is attempting to increase your products’ registration rate. Increasing...
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Computer Things
Maybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently...
3 weeks ago
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Maybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming

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

3 weeks ago
I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently ported my neovim config to a new laptop. Before then, I was using VSCode to write, and when I switched back I immediately saw a big gain in productivity. People often pooh-pooh vim...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Occupation and Preoccupation Here’s Jony Ive in his Stripe interview: What we make stands testament to who we are. What we make...
3 weeks ago
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Occupation and Preoccupation

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

3 weeks ago
Here’s Jony Ive in his Stripe interview: What we make stands testament to who we are. What we make describes our values. It describes our preoccupations. It describes beautiful succinctly our preoccupation. I’d never really noticed the connection between these two words:...
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David Heinemeier...
American hype There's no country on earth that does hype better than America. It's one of the most appealing...
3 weeks ago
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American hype

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

3 weeks ago
There's no country on earth that does hype better than America. It's one of the most appealing aspects about being here. People are genuinely excited about the future and never stop searching for better ways to work, live, entertain, and profit. There's a unique critical mass in...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
File sync is very slow I’m working on a Go library appendstore for append-only store of lots of things in a single file. To...
3 weeks ago
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File sync is very slow

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
I’m working on a Go library appendstore for append-only store of lots of things in a single file. To make things as robust as possible I was calling os.File.Sync() after each append. Sync() is waiting until the data is acknowledged as truly, really written to disk (as opposed to...
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Linux crosses magic market share threshold in US According to Statcounter, Linux has claimed 5% market share of desktop computing in the US. That's...
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Linux crosses magic market share threshold in US

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3 weeks ago
According to Statcounter, Linux has claimed 5% market share of desktop computing in the US. That's double of where it was just three years ago! Really impressive. Windows is still dominant at 63%, and Apple sit at 26%. But for the latter, it's quite a drop from their peak of 33%...
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Confessions of a...
Understanding Registers and Data Movement in x86-64 Assembly A hands-on guide to general-purpose registers and data movement in x86-64
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Understanding Registers and Data Movement in x86-64 Assembly

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3 weeks ago
A hands-on guide to general-purpose registers and data movement in x86-64
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The History of the...
Three attempts at making payments secure In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and...
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Three attempts at making payments secure

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3 weeks ago
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. The post Three attempts at making payments secure appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Confessions of a...
A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview) Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to...
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A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)

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3 weeks ago
Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to peel back the abstraction and understand how code really runs at the machine level.
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tonsky.me
Gaslight-driven development Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just...
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Gaslight-driven development

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3 weeks ago
Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just part of the experience. Millions of people create accounts, confirm emails, dismiss notifications, solve captchas, reject cookies, and accept terms and conditions—not because they...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Measurement and Numbers Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to...
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Measurement and Numbers

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3 weeks ago
Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to talk about product attributes that you can measure easily with a number…schedule, costs, speed, weight, anything where you can generally agree that six is a bigger number than...
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The 6 Hours of Lex When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into...
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The 6 Hours of Lex

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3 weeks ago
When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into stints of roughly two hours at a time. It's intense. But talking with Lex Fridman in Austin on his podcast? Over six hours straight! We only interrupted the session for five minutes...
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Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo
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Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Computers Are a Feeling Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: ...
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Computers Are a Feeling

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4 weeks ago
Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination. The internet and its commercial power has sculpted the computer-device. It's become the terrain of flat, uniform, common...
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Blog of Simple...
German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR
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German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR

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4 weeks ago
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
New Edna feature: multiple notes I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a...
4 weeks ago
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New Edna feature: multiple notes

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4 weeks ago
I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a note taking application with super powers. I figured I’ll make a series of posts about all the features I’ve added in last few months. The first is multiple notes. By default we...
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charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career

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4 weeks ago
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
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General Robots
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
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Single-Use Disposable Applications

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4 weeks ago
As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.
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Blog of Simple...
Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?
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Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?

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Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies...
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Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person

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a month ago
Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies of Windows or MacOS are awful compared to web technology. What can trivially be done with HTML/CSS/JavaScript in few minutes can take hours using Windows’s win32 APIs or Mac’s...
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Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Turns One I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the...
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Logic for Programmers Turns One

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a month ago
I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the anniversary of something that isn't 1.0 yet, but software projects have a proud tradition of celebrating a dozen anniversaries before 1.0. I wanted to share about what's changed in the...
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Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application Translating user interface of SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is the best PDF/eBook/Comic Book...
a month ago
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Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application

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a month ago
Translating user interface of SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is the best PDF/eBook/Comic Book viewer for Windows. It’s small, fast, full of features, free and open-source. It became popular enough that it made sense to translate the UI for non-English users. Currently we...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political...
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Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website

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a month ago
After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political correspondent at The Verge, reached out with some questions. Her questions made me realize that the numbers in my analysis weren’t quite correct (I wasn’t de-depulicating links...
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TokyoDev
Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
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Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan

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a month ago
After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...
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Case study of over-engineered C++ code You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s...
a month ago
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Case study of over-engineered C++ code

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a month ago
You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s best to show by example. While it’s not my intention to criticize other people’s code, I think it’s better to show code and how to improve it rather than vaguely talk about...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Do You Even Personalize, Bro? There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until...
a month ago
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Do You Even Personalize, Bro?

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a month ago
There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until now — called Algorithms are breaking how we think. I learned of this video from Gedeon Maheux of The Iconfactory fame. Speaking in the context of why they made Tapestry, he said...
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Irrational...
What can agents actually do? There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can...
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What can agents actually do?

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a month ago
There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
My first year since coming back to Linux <![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I...
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My first year since coming back to Linux

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a month ago
<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my daily driver on the desktop. A year later I have nothing major to report, which is the point. Despite the occasional unplanned...
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Quentin Santos
Overanalyzing a minor quirk of Espressif’s reset circuit The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog...
a month ago
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Overanalyzing a minor quirk of Espressif’s reset circuit

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a month ago
The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog and the reproduced circuit, when it comes to EN: Focusing on EN, it looks like the voltage level goes back to 3.3V much faster on the ESP-Prog than on the breadboard circuit. The...
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the singularity is...
Can tinygrad win? This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of...
a month ago
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Can tinygrad win?

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a month ago
This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of business, taking billions and billions of dollars with it. Re: Tesla and FSD, we always expected Tesla to have the lead, but it’s not a winner take all market, it will look more...
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Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is...
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Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go

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a month ago
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is an interface without any methods, typed as interface{}. A zero value of interface{} is nil: var v interface{} // compiler sets this to nil, you could explicitly write = nil if v ==...
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tonsky.me
Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
a month ago
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Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей

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a month ago
Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
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the singularity is...
Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
a month ago
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Are we the baddies?

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a month ago
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Size textarea to content To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height:...
a month ago
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Size textarea to content

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a month ago
To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height: 70vh; } Using tailwindcss: <textarea class="min-h-[8rem] max-h-[70vh] field-sizing-content"></textarea> Needs Chrome 123+, Firefox 126+
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David Heinemeier...
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
a month ago
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

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a month ago
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
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Epic Web Dev
Another tip (tip)
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Another tip (tip)

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a month ago
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All about Svelte 5 snippets Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet...
a month ago
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All about Svelte 5 snippets

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a month ago
Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet basics A snippet is a function that renders html based on its arguments. Here’s how to define and use a snippet: {#snippet hello(name)} <div>Hello...
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Computer Things
Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
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Logical Quantifiers in Software

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a month ago
I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
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Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
a month ago
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit

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a month ago
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little...
a month ago
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Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS

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a month ago
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t match the order in which they are displayed on screen. Why’s this happening? I have a bunch of links in my HTML document,...
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Tony Finch's blog
clamp / median / range Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison...
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clamp / median / range

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a month ago
Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison style clamp style clamp is median clamp in range range style style clash? comparison style Some languages such as BCPL, Icon, Python have chained comparison operators, like if...
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C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base...
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C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code

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a month ago
SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The goals of SumatraPDF are to be: fast small packed with features and yet with thoughtfully minimal UI It’s not just a matter of...
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elementary Blog
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
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Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility

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a month ago
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
a month ago
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Digital hygiene: Emails

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a month ago
Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
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Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
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Building a container orchestrator

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a month ago
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

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a month ago
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style...
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An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website

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a month ago
A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a White House official said the site’s purpose was to serve as “a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real...
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markround.com
AmigaGuide Reference Library As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k...
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AmigaGuide Reference Library

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a month ago
As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total noob-like C flailing around), I’ve made heavy use of documentation in the AmigaGuide format. Despite it’s age, it’s a great Amiga-native...
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ntietz.com blog -...
That boolean should probably be something else One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean...
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That boolean should probably be something else

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a month ago
One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should...
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Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article...
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Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF

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a month ago
SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article describes how I implemented StrVec class for efficiently storing multiple strings. Much ado about the strings Strings are among the most used types in most programs. Arrays...
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David Heinemeier...
The parental dead end of consent morality Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting...
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The parental dead end of consent morality

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

a month ago
Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're not hurting anyone, it's all good, and whoever might have a problem with that is by definition a bigot.  This was the overriding...
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Words and Buttons...
Why learn about the golden-section search An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a...
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Why learn about the golden-section search

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

a month ago
An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One converges better, and the other has a better computational cost.
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
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Quentin Santos
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
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Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit

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a month ago
I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
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Confessions of a...
Why This Old Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore A deep dive into Python’s name resolution, bytecode, and how CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular...
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Why This Old Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore

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a month ago
A deep dive into Python’s name resolution, bytecode, and how CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular optimization irrelevant.
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David Heinemeier...
Self-driving is finally happening I still remember how the car industry got all excited back in 2017 about how steering wheels would...
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Self-driving is finally happening

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

a month ago
I still remember how the car industry got all excited back in 2017 about how steering wheels would soon be obsolete. Every concept car then was a living room on wheels, seats facing inwards. The self-driving revolution was imminent, they said. Well, it wasn't... but now it...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating...
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Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating within document. This article describes how I implemented a compact table of contents for documentation page for my Edna note taking application as well as for this very blog. I was...
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David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
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Omarchy is out

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a month ago
My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
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Tony Finch's blog
Golang and Let's Encrypt: a free software story Here’s a story from nearly 10 years ago. the bug I think it was my friend Richard Kettlewell who...
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Golang and Let's Encrypt: a free software story

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

a month ago
Here’s a story from nearly 10 years ago. the bug I think it was my friend Richard Kettlewell who told me about a bug he encountered with Let’s Encrypt in its early days in autumn 2015: it was failing to validate mail domains correctly. the context At the time I had previously...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Go is 80/20 language Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility...
a month ago
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Go is 80/20 language

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility with 20% of complexity. The hate comes from people who want 81% of utility, or 85% or 97%. As Rob Pike said, no one denies that 87% of utility provides more utility than 80%. The...
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Julia Evans
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a...
a month ago
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New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal

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

a month ago
Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the...
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TokyoDev
Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad

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a month ago
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can...
a month ago
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Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions

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

a month ago
I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can browse collections of icons that share pre-defined metadata (e.g. “Show me all icons tagged as blue”) but I can’t create your own arbitrary collections of icons. That is, until...
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Dan Slimmon
Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a...
a month ago
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Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin

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a month ago
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a long way to making you a stronger SRE.
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-25 Wed: 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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2025-06-25 Wed: Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
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...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Little Swarming Gnats of Data Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer...
a month ago
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Little Swarming Gnats of Data

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

a month ago
Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of emails I get when I fly, e.g.: Check in now Track your bags Your flight will soon depart Your flight will soon...
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Computer Things
You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been...
a month ago
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You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial

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

a month ago
Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been to in years. I have a lot of work to catch up on, so this will be a short newsletter. In an earlier version of my talk, I had a gag about unit tests. First I showed the test...
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Blog of Simple...
Closing the data gap - Simple Analytics x Usercentrics
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Closing the data gap - Simple Analytics x Usercentrics

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a month ago
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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...
a month ago
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How I made SumatraPDF crash less

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
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...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Proving that every program halts One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely...
a month ago
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Proving that every program halts

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

a month ago
One of the best known hard problems in computer science is the halting problem. In fact, it's widely thought[1] that you cannot write a program that will, for any arbitrary program as input, tell you correctly whether or not it will terminate. This is written from the framing of...
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2025-06-23 Mon: activity More Edna porting.
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2025-06-23 Mon:

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a month ago
activity More Edna porting.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Copy of The Internet Phone Book I recently got my copy of the Internet Phone Book. Look who’s hiding on the bottom inside spread of...
a month ago
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My Copy of The Internet Phone Book

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a month ago
I recently got my copy of the Internet Phone Book. Look who’s hiding on the bottom inside spread of page 32: The book is divided into a number of categories — such as “Small”, “Text”, and “Ecology” — and I am beyond flattered to be listed under the category “HTML”! You can...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-22 Sun: Ban std::string The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like...
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2025-06-22 Sun: Ban std::string

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
The use of std::string should be banned in C++ code bases. I’m sure this statement sounds like heresy and you want to burn me at stake. But is it really controversial? Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP: they all have immutable strings that are basically 2 machine words:...
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Posts on Nikita...
I'm writing a book! Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines....
a month ago
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I'm writing a book!

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

a month ago
Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines. Every time, I bumped into the same problem: query engines are extremely academic. Despite the fact that industry has over 40 years of expertise, reading foundational papers and then...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Compressing for the browser in Go Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP...
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Compressing for the browser in Go

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP request to a web server, it includes the following header: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd This tells the server that the response can be compressed using one of the...
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charity.wtf
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February...
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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

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a month ago
This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is...
a month ago
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Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is inefficient and this article describes a better way. The sys/windows way To call a function in a DLL, let’s say kernel32.dll, we must: load the dll into memory with...
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Blog System/5
Lessons along the EndBOX journey How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to...
a month ago
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Lessons along the EndBOX journey

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a month ago
How a wild side-quest became the source of many of the articles you’ve read—and have come to expect—in this publication
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Confessions of a...
Making System Calls in x86-64 Assembly Watch now | Privilege levels, syscall conventions, and how assembly code talks to the Linux kernel
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Making System Calls in x86-64 Assembly

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a month ago
Watch now | Privilege levels, syscall conventions, and how assembly code talks to the Linux kernel
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Epic Web Dev
Better Test Setup with Disposable Objects (article) Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using...
a month ago
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Better Test Setup with Disposable Objects (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using keyword to ensure reliable resource disposal in tests.
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Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
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Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking

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a month ago
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
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Alice GG
Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
a month ago
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Discord considered harmful

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

a month ago
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
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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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Becoming an Asshole

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a month ago
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...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books written in C++. A...
a month ago
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Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
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...
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Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?

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

a month ago
Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
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Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
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TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions)

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a month ago
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
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Computer Things
Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet,...
a month ago
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Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

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a month ago
No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet, which is why this newsletter is both late and short. Solving LinkedIn Queens in SMT The article Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused claims that SAT solvers1 are "criminally...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range...
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Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range iter loops. People are happy the iterators were added to the language. Not everyone is happy about HOW they were implemented. This person opined that they demonstrate “typical Go...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and...
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The Continuum From Static to Dynamic

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a month ago
Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan describes in his post, “static” or “dynamic” it’s all just computers doing stuff. Computer A...
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The Changelog
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
a month ago
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I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased

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a month ago
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
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Blog System/5
Whatever happened to sandboxfs? Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
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Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

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a month ago
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5 In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left...
a month ago
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Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element. Here’s UI hidden: Here’s UI visible: The thinking is: when writing, you want...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Web as URLs, Not Documents Dan Abramov on his blog (emphasis mine): The division between the frontend and the backend is...
a month ago
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The Web as URLs, Not Documents

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a month ago
Dan Abramov on his blog (emphasis mine): The division between the frontend and the backend is physical. We can’t escape from the fact that we’re writing client/server applications. Some logic is naturally more suited to either side. But one side should not dominate the other. And...
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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...
a month ago
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

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a month ago
(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
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Julia Evans
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....
a month ago
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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

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a month ago
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
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Kagi Blog
Celebrating 50K users with Kagi free search portal, Kagi for libraries, and more... Just last week, we celebrated three years since Kagi was launched.
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Celebrating 50K users with Kagi free search portal, Kagi for libraries, and more...

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2 months ago
Just last week, we celebrated three years since Kagi was launched.
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charity.wtf
On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
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On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not

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2 months ago
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
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Confessions of a...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
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One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations

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2 months ago
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
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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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performance of random floats

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2 months ago
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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Posts on Nikita...
This site has buttons! This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple...
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This site has buttons!

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2 months ago
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
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Irrational...
My desk setup in 2025. Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together...
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My desk setup in 2025.

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2 months ago
Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally have it mostly pulled together at this point. I don’t really think my desk setup is very novel, and I’m sure there are better ways to pull it together, but I will say that it finally works the way I want since...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like...
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Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos

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2 months ago
Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles because it looked nice, then wrote flowery language to justify why our…design is actually profound. As someone who has grown...
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Epic Web Dev
The future of react-router just got a lot brighter (tip) Today we go over the recent announcement blog post of react-router where they talk about their open...
2 months ago
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The future of react-router just got a lot brighter (tip)

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2 months ago
Today we go over the recent announcement blog post of react-router where they talk about their open governance model and what the future will look like
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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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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users

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2 months ago
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...
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Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

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2 months ago
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Andreas Fredriksson’s “Context is Everything” I quite enjoyed this talk. Some of the technical details went over my head (I don’t know what “split...
2 months ago
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Notes from Andreas Fredriksson’s “Context is Everything”

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2 months ago
I quite enjoyed this talk. Some of the technical details went over my head (I don’t know what “split 16-bit mask into two 8-bit LTUs” means) but I could still follow the underlying point. First off, Andreas has a great story at the beginning about how he has a friend with a...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding graphics support to DandeGUI <![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output...
2 months ago
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Adding graphics support to DandeGUI

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2 months ago
<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp. In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
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The History of the...
Exploring the web in 1995 By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone. The post Exploring the web...
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Exploring the web in 1995

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2 months ago
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone. The post Exploring the web in 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
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David Heinemeier...
Gender and Sexuality Alliances in primary school at CIS?! The Copenhagen International School is a wonderful private school located in the North Harbor of the...
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Gender and Sexuality Alliances in primary school at CIS?!

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2 months ago
The Copenhagen International School is a wonderful private school located in the North Harbor of the city. It's home to over 900 students from around the world. This is where ambassadors, international executives, and other expats send their kids to get a great education in...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is It JavaScript? OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
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Is It JavaScript?

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2 months ago
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
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David Heinemeier...
Omarchy: Bottling that inspiration before it spoils Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up...
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Omarchy: Bottling that inspiration before it spoils

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2 months ago
Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up with a full tank. Quite often, I don't exactly know where we're going or even why we're going, but it's repeatedly taken me to just the right place at just the right time, so now I...
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Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
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Kagi status update: First three years

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2 months ago
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
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elementary Blog
The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
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The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates

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2 months ago
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
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Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti...
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moka pot notes

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2 months ago
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a reminder to my...
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Marco.org
Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
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Retreating to Safety

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2 months ago
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
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TokyoDev
A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to...
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A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan

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2 months ago
Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to move abroad. What’s more, Japan actually needs more international developers. But how easy is it to immigrate to and work in Japan? Scores of videos on social media warn that...
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Epic Web Dev
Let's talk about the future of Remix and react-router (tip) We go over the "Wake up, Remix!" article by the remix team and talk about their decisions moving...
2 months ago
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Let's talk about the future of Remix and react-router (tip)

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2 months ago
We go over the "Wake up, Remix!" article by the remix team and talk about their decisions moving forward and also speculate on what is coming next.
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Tony Finch's blog
the algebra of dependent types TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type...
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the algebra of dependent types

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2 months ago
TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type theory. I’ve long been aware of the zoo of more obscure Greek letters that turn up in papers about type system features of functional programming languages, μ, Λ, Π, Σ. Their...
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Computer Things
What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and...
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What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway

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2 months ago
Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so...
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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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Tradeoffs to Continuous Software?

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2 months ago
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...
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Blog System/5
Beginning 3D printing A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
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Beginning 3D printing

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2 months ago
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
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Nerding out about heaters

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2 months ago
Keeping warm in the winter
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tonsky.me
Talk: Local-first is not going to win, but that’s okay @ Local-First Conf We’ll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of...
2 months ago
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Talk: Local-first is not going to win, but that’s okay @ Local-First Conf

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2 months ago
We’ll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why. Then we’ll see how local-first fits into it and which local-first-adjacent practices are making software development easier and...
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Epic Web Dev
Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip) Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
2 months ago
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Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip)

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2 months ago
Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.
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Posts on Nikita...
Rust streams and timeouts gotcha Imagine we have a list of paths to Parquet files on R2. We need to fetch Parquet footer of each...
2 months ago
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Rust streams and timeouts gotcha

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2 months ago
Imagine we have a list of paths to Parquet files on R2. We need to fetch Parquet footer of each file. However, we don’t know in advance whether we will need footers of all files and we want to avoid fetching extra. Rust has a streams abstraction. It is kind of like an iterator,...
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Confessions of a...
Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB Watch now (20 mins) | Learn how to inspect registers, step through instructions, and investigate...
2 months ago
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Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB

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2 months ago
Watch now (20 mins) | Learn how to inspect registers, step through instructions, and investigate crashes using GDB.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please? A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer...
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Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please?

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2 months ago
A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer explaining how motivated they were to make buying easy. Like, incredibly easy. So easy, in fact, that their goal was to “reduce your time to think a little bit more critically about a...
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Irrational...
Stuff I learned at Carta. Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years....
2 months ago
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Stuff I learned at Carta.

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2 months ago
Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two...
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a...
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Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh

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2 months ago
Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a peek at our work on collaborative game development. Also some meta content—a refreshed website, and a talk about how we work.
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Epic Web Dev
Do NOT Assert on Requests (Do This Instead) (article) Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually...
2 months ago
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Do NOT Assert on Requests (Do This Instead) (article)

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2 months ago
Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually see and experience, not implementation details.
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TokyoDev
How to Pass the Resume Screening Stage in Japan Do you feel that the number of applications needed to land a role has skyrocketed? If so, your...
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How to Pass the Resume Screening Stage in Japan

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2 months ago
Do you feel that the number of applications needed to land a role has skyrocketed? If so, your instincts are correct. According to a Workday Global Workforce Report in September 2024, job applications are growing at a rate four times faster than job openings. This growth is...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
2 months ago
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Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar

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2 months ago
How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Digging into git commit templates Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been...
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Digging into git commit templates

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2 months ago
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. – Eagleson’s Law After scouring git history, I found the correct config file, but someone removed it. Their full commit message read: Remove config. Don't bring...
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The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again? With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
2 months ago
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Can Directories Rise Again?

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2 months ago
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory. The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Product Pseudoscience In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the...
2 months ago
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Product Pseudoscience

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2 months ago
In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study from a...
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David Heinemeier...
HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone! Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the...
2 months ago
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HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone!

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2 months ago
Our battle with Apple over their gangster attempt to extort 30% of our HEY revenues was one of the defining moments of my career. It was the kind of test that calls you to account for what you believe and asks what you're willing to risk to see it through. Well, we risked...
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TokyoDev
Is There a Japanese Equivalent of Glassdoor? When interviewing with a Japanese company, you’ll naturally want to know: “Is this a good place to...
2 months ago
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Is There a Japanese Equivalent of Glassdoor?

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2 months ago
When interviewing with a Japanese company, you’ll naturally want to know: “Is this a good place to work?” And while Glassdoor is the standard in English-speaking countries for employees leaving online reviews, the site is only rarely used in Japan, and then primarily by...
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Epic Web Dev
Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip) Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different...
2 months ago
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Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip)

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2 months ago
Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different approaches, and trade-offs.
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David Heinemeier...
Have you tried the exact opposite? Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really...
2 months ago
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Have you tried the exact opposite?

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2 months ago
Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really helpful way to test your assumptions and your values. What does the opposite look like, how would it work? It's so easy to get stuck in a groove of what works, what you believe to be...
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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...
2 months ago
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Multiple Computers

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2 months ago
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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David Heinemeier...
Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an...
2 months ago
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Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good

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

2 months ago
For the past week, I've been working off the Minisforum UM870. A tiny mini PC with an 8-core/16-thread AMD 8745H CPU, which retails for $343 (or €379) as a bare-bone unit, and stays below $550, even after adding 48GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I'm shocked to report that I really...
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The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
2 months ago
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

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2 months ago
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
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Quentin Santos
The ESP32-S2 reset pin RST defaults to high This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset. In that...
2 months ago
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The ESP32-S2 reset pin

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

2 months ago
RST defaults to high This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset. In that article, we observed the effect of the RST pin on the ESP32-S2-Saola-1RI board: I skipped over this topic quickly, so I am now taking the time to explain how the RST pin manages to...
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Confessions of a...
Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what...
2 months ago
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Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program

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

2 months ago
We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what makes this program worth writing.
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TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2025 Recap In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to...
2 months ago
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RubyKaigi 2025 Recap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to say was well-received! This was my third time attending RubyKaigi, and I was once again really impressed with the event. I’m eternally grateful to the conference organizers, local...
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tonsky.me
Logo: Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
2 months ago
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Logo:

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2 months ago
Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
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Quentin Santos
Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader,...
2 months ago
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Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader

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

2 months ago
In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader, but did not go in more details. In this article, I want to go just a bit further, by showing some two-way interactions. We’ll use the initial basic “real” UART setup. Note that I...
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Charles Chen
Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
2 months ago
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Beware the Complexity Merchants

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

2 months ago
When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Alexander Petros’ “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service” I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows...
2 months ago
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Notes from Alexander Petros’ “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”

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

2 months ago
I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows is summation of my note-taking from watching the talk on YouTube. Is what you’re building for future generations: Useful for them? Maintainable by them? Adaptable by...
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Computer Things
Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step...
2 months ago
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Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+

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

2 months ago
You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step left, but they're thinking the same thing and take a step to their right, aka your left. You're still blocking each other. Then you take a step to the right, and they take a step to...
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Tony Finch's blog
the penultimate conditional syntax About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”....
2 months ago
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the penultimate conditional syntax

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

2 months ago
About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”. It has the attractive goal of unifying pattern match with boolean if tests, and its solution is in some ways very nice. But it seems over-complicated to me, especially for...
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David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
2 months ago
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Coding should be a vibe!

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

2 months ago
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
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Posts on Nikita...
Tempest Rising is a great game I really like RTS games. I pretty much grew up on them, starting with Command&Conquer 3: Kane’s...
2 months ago
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Tempest Rising is a great game

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

2 months ago
I really like RTS games. I pretty much grew up on them, starting with Command&Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath, moving on to StarCraft 2 trilogy and witnessing the downfall of Command&Conquer 4. I never had the disks for any other RTS games during my teenage years. Yes, the disks, the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility” Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this...
2 months ago
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Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility”

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

2 months ago
Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say....
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Epic Web Dev
Debug React Router Applications with Custom Logs using react-router-devtools (tip) react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus...
2 months ago
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Debug React Router Applications with Custom Logs using react-router-devtools (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus direct links to code origins in console logs.
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Changing text style for DandeGUI window output <![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library...
2 months ago
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Changing text style for DandeGUI window output

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm developing in Common Lisp. I finally got around to this and implemented the GUI:WITH-TEXT-STYLE macro which controls the attributes of text printed to a...
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TokyoDev
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
2 months ago
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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one. However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
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Irrational...
systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems...
2 months ago
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systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM

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

2 months ago
Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems models, and introduced it with this blog post modeling a hiring funnel. While it’s far from a perfect system, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of it over the last seven years, because...
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Engineer’s Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
2 months ago
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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

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2 months ago
Merkle Trees in the real world
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wingolog
a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
3 months ago
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a whippet waypoint

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
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The Codist
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
3 months ago
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Stress And Programming

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

3 months ago
Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
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Quentin Santos
Espressif’s Automatic Reset In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to...
3 months ago
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Espressif’s Automatic Reset

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

3 months ago
In previous articles, we saw how to use “real” UART, and looked into the trick used by Arduino to automatically reset boards when uploading firmware. Today, we’ll look into how Espressif does something similar, using even more tricks. “Real” UART on the Saola As usual, let’s...
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Contraption Co.
How I built a chatbot with my dog Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval
3 months ago
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How I built a chatbot with my dog

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3 months ago
Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval
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Computer Things
Write the most clever code you possibly can I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
3 months ago
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Write the most clever code you possibly can

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

3 months ago
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead! New Logic for Programmers release! v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
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Posts on Nikita...
I switched from GMail and nobody died Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
3 months ago
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I switched from GMail and nobody died

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

3 months ago
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Language Needs Innovation In his book “The Order of Time” Carlo Rovelli notes how we often asks ourselves questions about the...
3 months ago
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Language Needs Innovation

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

3 months ago
In his book “The Order of Time” Carlo Rovelli notes how we often asks ourselves questions about the fundamental nature of reality such as “What is real?” and “What exists?” But those are bad questions he says. Why? the adjective “real” is ambiguous; it has a thousand meanings....
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elementary Blog
A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at...
3 months ago
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A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later

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3 months ago
In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at work on even more bug fixes and some new exciting features that I’m excited to share with you today! Read ahead to find out what we’ve released recently and what you can help us...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
3 months ago
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The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession

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

3 months ago
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
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Confessions of a...
The System-Level Foundation of Assembly Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
3 months ago
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The System-Level Foundation of Assembly

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

3 months ago
Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code
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ntietz.com blog -...
Taking a break I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it...
3 months ago
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Taking a break

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

3 months ago
I've been publishing at least one blog post every week on this blog for about 2.5 years. I kept it up even when I was very sick last year with Lyme disease. It's time for me to take a break and reset. This is the right time, because the world is very difficult for me to move...
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alexwlchan
Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour":...
3 months ago
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Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python

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3 months ago
Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } Notice that sides and colour both appear twice. This looks invalid, but I learnt recently that this is actually legal JSON syntax! It’s unusual and discouraged, but it’s...
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A Smart Bear
Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy When even "free" is too expensive.
3 months ago
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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

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3 months ago
When even "free" is too expensive.
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Quentin Santos
Linux always toggles DTR & RTS In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically...
3 months ago
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Linux always toggles DTR & RTS

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

3 months ago
In my previous article, I explained how Arduino makes the life of its users easier by automatically resetting the board when the UART pin DTR (or RTS) transitions from electrically high to low. This exploits the fact that this transition happens automatically when someone or...
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Irrational...
Public company comparables. A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive...
3 months ago
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Public company comparables.

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

3 months ago
A few years ago I wrote about reading a Profit & Loss statement, which is a foundational executive skill. I also subsequently wrote about ways to measure your engineering organization. Despite having written those, I still spend a lot of time wondering about effective ways to...
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charity.wtf
On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
3 months ago
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

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3 months ago
Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
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macwright.com
Reading Zanzibar Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a...
3 months ago
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Reading Zanzibar

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3 months ago
Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do what – which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different apps that rely on Zanzibar, and bigger scale...
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Quentin Santos
Arduino’s Automatic Reset As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
3 months ago
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Arduino’s Automatic Reset

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

3 months ago
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
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Oxide Computer...
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees),...
3 months ago
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

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

3 months ago
How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our audacious vision. While we had had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped; we needed...
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Tony Finch's blog
testing data structures per element Recently, Alex Kladov wrote on the TigerBeetle blog about swarm testing data structures. It’s a neat...
3 months ago
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testing data structures per element

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

3 months ago
Recently, Alex Kladov wrote on the TigerBeetle blog about swarm testing data structures. It’s a neat post about randomized testing with Zig. I wrote a comment with an idea that was new to Alex @matklad, so I’m reposing a longer version here. differential testing problems grow /...
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macwright.com
Recently I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts...
3 months ago
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Recently

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3 months ago
I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney, who I...
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tonsky.me
When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
3 months ago
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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro

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3 months ago
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
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Code Of Honor
Twenty Years of Guild Wars So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
3 months ago
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Twenty Years of Guild Wars

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

3 months ago
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2025 The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various...
3 months ago
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Name that Ware, April 2025

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3 months ago
The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various reasons I think this is sufficient for someone to guess at least the type of ware this came from, if not the exact make/model. There’s a particularly interesting bit about this...
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alexwlchan
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my...
3 months ago
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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

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3 months ago
I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: $ rsync --progress...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most...
3 months ago
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Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools

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

3 months ago
After reading an article, I ended up on HackerNews and stumbled on this comment: The most frustrating thing about dipping in to the FE is that it seems like literally everything is deprecated. Lol, so true. From the same comment, here’s a description of a day in the life of a...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Getting nothing done You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just...
3 months ago
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Getting nothing done

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

3 months ago
You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just letting the mind rest when it's not needed, and that's the case more often than you might think.
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI <![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common...
3 months ago
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Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
<![CDATA[I continued working on DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm writing in Common Lisp. I added two new short public functions, GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW and GUI:PRINT-MESSAGE, and fixed a bug in some internal code. GUI:CLEAR-WINDOW deletes the text of the window...
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David Heinemeier...
Don't make Google sell Chrome The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for...
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Don't make Google sell Chrome

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3 months ago
The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses. Which mean we'll all be worse off as the web would lose ground to actual monopoly platforms, like the iOS App Store and Google's own Play Store....
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charity.wtf
On Dropouts and Bootstraps In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all...
3 months ago
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On Dropouts and Bootstraps

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3 months ago
In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all quite good at their jobs, all college dropouts. We developed a shared conviction that only losers got computer science degrees. This sounds like a joke, or a self-defense mechanism,...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Measuring my Framework laptop's performance in 3 positions A few months ago, I was talking with a friend about my ergonomic setup and they asked if being...
3 months ago
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Measuring my Framework laptop's performance in 3 positions

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

3 months ago
A few months ago, I was talking with a friend about my ergonomic setup and they asked if being vertical helps it with cooling. I wasn't sure, because it seems like it could help but it was probably such a small difference that it wouldn't matter. So, I did what any...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Craft and Satisfaction Here’s Sean Voisen writing about how programming is a feeling: For those of us who enjoy...
3 months ago
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Craft and Satisfaction

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3 months ago
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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A Smart Bear
How to get customers who love you even when you screw up Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from...
3 months ago
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How to get customers who love you even when you screw up

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3 months ago
Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from earnest people, not stolid, cold, inhuman corporations.
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The Changelog
Memoirs of the Early Internet The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow...
3 months ago
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Memoirs of the Early Internet

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3 months ago
The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow lingered online for decades longer than you might expect. Today I’ll take you on a tour of some parts of the early Internet. The Internet, of course, is a “network of networks” and...
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
3 months ago
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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3 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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The Changelog
NNCPNET Can Optionally Exchange Internet Email A few days ago, I announced NNCPNET, the email network based atop NNCP. NNCPNET lets anyone run a...
3 months ago
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NNCPNET Can Optionally Exchange Internet Email

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3 months ago
A few days ago, I announced NNCPNET, the email network based atop NNCP. NNCPNET lets anyone run a real mail server on a network that supports all sorts of topologies for transport, from Internet to USB drives. And verification is done at the NNCP protocol level, so a whole host...
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MMapped blog
Three degrees of validity
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Three degrees of validity

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3 months ago
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wingolog
partitioning ambiguous edges in guile Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with...
3 months ago
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

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3 months ago
Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have finally started banging into , initially in a configuration that continues to use the conservative Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW)...
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Jake Zimmerman
Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax
3 months ago
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Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax

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3 months ago
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Irrational...
How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016) While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I...
3 months ago
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How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016)

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3 months ago
While Stripe is a widely admired company for things like its creation of the Sorbet typer project, I personally think that Stripe’s most interesting strategy work is also among its most subtle: its willingness to significantly prioritize API stability. This strategy is almost...
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Computer Things
Requirements change until they don't Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when...
3 months ago
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Requirements change until they don't

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3 months ago
Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when the system requirements are constantly changing? It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time proving a design works, and then deliver the product and find out it's not at all what...
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David Heinemeier...
We'll always need junior programmers We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're...
3 months ago
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We'll always need junior programmers

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3 months ago
We received over 2,200 applications for our just-closed junior programmer opening, and now we're going through all of them by hand and by human. No AI screening here. It's a lot of work, but we have a great team who take the work seriously, so in a few weeks, we'll be able to...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Brian Regan Helped Me Understand My Aversion to Job Titles I like the job title “Design Engineer”. When required to label myself, I feel partial to that term...
3 months ago
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Brian Regan Helped Me Understand My Aversion to Job Titles

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

3 months ago
I like the job title “Design Engineer”. When required to label myself, I feel partial to that term (I should, I’ve written about it enough). Lately I’ve felt like the term is becoming more mainstream which, don’t get me wrong, is a good thing. I appreciate the diversification of...
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Liz Denys
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
3 months ago
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

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3 months ago
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
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37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
3 months ago
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Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2

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3 months ago
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
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Epic Web Dev
React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)
3 months ago
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React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)

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3 months ago
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Irrational...
library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various...
3 months ago
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library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases

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3 months ago
At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various accounting, cash reconciliation, and operational tasks. To better guide that project, I wrote my own simple workflow tool as a learning project in January. Since then, the Model...
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The History of the...
The innovative designs of 1995 In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice. The post The innovative designs...
3 months ago
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The innovative designs of 1995

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3 months ago
In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice. The post The innovative designs of 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
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alexwlchan
A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
3 months ago
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A flash of light in the darkness

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3 months ago
I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
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the singularity is...
A Way Forward “For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense...
3 months ago
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A Way Forward

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3 months ago
“For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I'm working on DandeGUI, a Common Lisp GUI library for simple text and graphics output on...
3 months ago
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DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm working on DandeGUI, a Common Lisp GUI library for simple text and graphics output on Medley Interlisp. The name, pronounced "dandy guy", is a nod to the Dandelion workstation, one of the Xerox D-machines Interlisp-D ran on in the 1980s. DandeGUI allows the creation...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“I Don’t See Why Not” Excuse my rant. Nobel-prize winning CEO of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, was on 60 Minutes and floored...
3 months ago
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“I Don’t See Why Not”

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

3 months ago
Excuse my rant. Nobel-prize winning CEO of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, was on 60 Minutes and floored me when he predicted: We can cure all diseases with the help of AI. [The end of disease] is within reach, maybe within the next decade or so. I don't see why not. “I don’t see why...
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TokyoDev
“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established...
3 months ago
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“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan

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3 months ago
Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These include businesses pushing for return-to-office mandates after years of remote work, eliminating flexible scheduling, and cutting...
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ntietz.com blog -...
The five stages of incident response The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be...
3 months ago
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The five stages of incident response

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

3 months ago
The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be down. There's no way it's down. Why would it be down? It isn't down. Sure, my pager went off. And sure, the metrics all say it's down and the customer is complaining that it's...
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Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Bluesky Verification
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Thoughts on Bluesky Verification

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3 months ago
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Irrational...
Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in...
3 months ago
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Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

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3 months ago
Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on /...
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A Smart Bear
SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all...
3 months ago
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SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

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3 months ago
How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all that "revenue acceleration?" Here's a way.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials...
3 months ago
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You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point

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3 months ago
In April 1945, as US soldiers overtook Merkers, Germany, stories began to surface to Army officials of stolen Nazi riches stored in the local salt mine. Eventually, the Americans found the mine and began exploring it, ending up at a vaulted door. Here’s the story, as told by Greg...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
An unplanned upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon <![CDATA[I spoke too soon when I said I was enjoying the stability of Linux. I have been using...
3 months ago
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An unplanned upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
<![CDATA[I spoke too soon when I said I was enjoying the stability of Linux. I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon on a System76 Merkaat PC with no major issues since July of 2024. But a few days ago a routine system update of Mint 22 dumped me to the text console. A fresh...
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charity.wtf
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
3 months ago
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

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3 months ago
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
All software engineers should freelance or found a business Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from...
3 months ago
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All software engineers should freelance or found a business

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3 months ago
Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from the actual value their code creates. They labour under the delusion that they’re paid to write code. In fact, they’re paid to make money, and writing code is probably the most...
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Irrational...
Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017). Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by...
3 months ago
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Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017).

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3 months ago
Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by decomposing their monoliths. Stripe was somewhat of an exception, largely delaying decomposition until it had grown beyond three thousand engineers and had accumulated a decade of...
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David Heinemeier...
The new Framework 13 HX370 The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers....
3 months ago
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The new Framework 13 HX370

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3 months ago
The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers. It runs our HEY test suite in 2m7s, compared to 2m43s for the 7840U (and 2m49s for a M4 Pro!). It's also about 20% faster in most single-core tasks than the 7840U. But is that...
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alexwlchan
Beyond `None`: actionable error messages for `keyring.get_password()` I’m a big fan of keyring, a Python module made by Jason R. Coombs for storing secrets in the system...
3 months ago
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Beyond `None`: actionable error messages for `keyring.get_password()`

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3 months ago
I’m a big fan of keyring, a Python module made by Jason R. Coombs for storing secrets in the system keyring. It works on multiple operating systems, and it knows what password store to use for each of them. For example, if you’re using macOS it puts secrets in the Keychain, but...
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Kagi Blog
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
3 months ago
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

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3 months ago
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Be Mindful of What You Make Easy Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites...
3 months ago
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Be Mindful of What You Make Easy

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3 months ago
Carson Gross has a post about vendoring which brought back memories of how I used to build websites in ye olden days, back in the dark times before npm. “Vendoring” is where you copy dependency source files directly into your project (usually in a folder called /vendor) and then...
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Computer Things
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...
3 months ago
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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

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3 months ago
Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
The value of "Yes, and..." I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use...
3 months ago
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The value of "Yes, and..."

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3 months ago
I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use more frequently. I particularly took the “Yes, and…“ to heart. It is an excellent technique, or attitude really, that keeps the conversation going. Conversations often start slow but...
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alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
3 months ago
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Localising the `` with JavaScript

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3 months ago
I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
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David Heinemeier...
Normal boyhood is ADHD Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But...
3 months ago
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Normal boyhood is ADHD

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3 months ago
Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them end up on amphetamines, like Adderall or Ritalin. These drugs allow especially teenage boys (diagnosed at 2-3x the rate of girls)...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey <![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
3 months ago
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Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey

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3 months ago
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC: Screenshot...
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Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
3 months ago
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Thoughts on releasing our first indie game

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3 months ago
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
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Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
3 months ago
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Typing instance variables in mixins

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3 months ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Love For Interoperable Apps I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of...
3 months ago
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Some Love For Interoperable Apps

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3 months ago
I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of interoperability — standardized protocols, data formats, etc. When I can bring my data from one app to another, that’s cool. Cool apps are interoperable. They work with my data, rather than...
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The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...
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The Post-Developer Era

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

3 months ago
When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some...
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