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2 days 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

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

2 days 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

3 days 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

3 days 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

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

4 days 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

4 days 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...

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Go is 80/20 language

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

4 days 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...

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New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal

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

4 days 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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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...

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Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions

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

5 days 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...

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Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 days 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

5 days 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...

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Little Swarming Gnats of Data

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

6 days 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...

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You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial

6 days 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

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

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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...

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How I made SumatraPDF crash less

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

6 days 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...

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Proving that every program halts

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

a week 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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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...

2025-06-23 Mon: activity More Edna porting.

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2025-06-23 Mon:

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

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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...

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My Copy of The Internet Phone Book

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

a week 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 week 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....

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I'm writing a book!

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

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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 week 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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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...

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Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go

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

a week 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...

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Lessons along the EndBOX journey

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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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2 weeks 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...

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Better Test Setup with Disposable Objects (article)

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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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2 weeks 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...

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Discord considered harmful

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2 weeks 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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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...

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Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF

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

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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,...

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Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

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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

2 weeks 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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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...

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I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased

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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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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...

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Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5

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

2 weeks 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...

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The Web as URLs, Not Documents

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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...

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

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

2 weeks 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....

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Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

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

2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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...

3 weeks ago

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This site has buttons!

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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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...

3 weeks ago

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The future of react-router just got a lot brighter (tip)

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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...

3 weeks ago

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Notes from Andreas Fredriksson’s “Context is Everything”

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3 weeks 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...

3 weeks ago

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Adding graphics support to DandeGUI

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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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...

3 weeks ago

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Gender and Sexuality Alliances in primary school at CIS?!

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3 weeks 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...

4 weeks ago

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Is It JavaScript?

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4 weeks 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...

4 weeks ago

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Omarchy: Bottling that inspiration before it spoils

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4 weeks 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...

4 weeks ago

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Kagi status update: First three years

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4 weeks 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...

4 weeks ago

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The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates

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4 weeks 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...

4 weeks ago

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moka pot notes

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4 weeks 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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a month 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

a month 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...

a month ago

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Let's talk about the future of Remix and react-router (tip)

a month 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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a month 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

a month 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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a month 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

a month 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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Herman's blog

Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter

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Nerding out about heaters

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a month ago

Keeping warm in the winter

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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.

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Understanding the cause of hydration issues in react-router (tip)

a month 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...

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Rust streams and timeouts gotcha

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a month 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...

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Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB

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a month 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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a month 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....

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Stuff I learned at Carta.

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a month 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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a month 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...

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Do NOT Assert on Requests (Do This Instead) (article)

a month 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

a month 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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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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a month 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...

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Can Directories Rise Again?

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a month 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...

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Product Pseudoscience

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a month 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...

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HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone!

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a month 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...

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Is There a Japanese Equivalent of Glassdoor?

a month 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...

a month ago

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Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip)

a month 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...

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Have you tried the exact opposite?

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a month 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...

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Multiple Computers

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a month 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...

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Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good

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

a month 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...

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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

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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...

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The ESP32-S2 reset pin

a month 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...

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Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program

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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...

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RubyKaigi 2025 Recap

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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.

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Logo:

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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,...

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Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader

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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...

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Beware the Complexity Merchants

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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...

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Notes from Alexander Petros’ “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”

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a month 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...

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Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+

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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”....

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the penultimate conditional syntax

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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...

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Coding should be a vibe!

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a month 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...

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Tempest Rising is a great game

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a month 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...

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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

a month 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...

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Debug React Router Applications with Custom Logs using react-router-devtools (tip)

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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...

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Changing text style for DandeGUI window output

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

a month 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...

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How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan

a month 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...

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systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM

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a month 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

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How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

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a month 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...

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a whippet waypoint

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a month 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...

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Stress And Programming

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a month 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...

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Espressif’s Automatic Reset

a month 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

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How I built a chatbot with my dog

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a month 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...

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Write the most clever code you possibly can

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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...

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I switched from GMail and nobody died

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

a month 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...

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Language Needs Innovation

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a month 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...

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A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later

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a month 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...

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The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession

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a month 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

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The System-Level Foundation of Assembly

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a month 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...

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Taking a break

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a month 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":...

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Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python

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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.

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Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

a month 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...

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Linux always toggles DTR & RTS

a month 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...

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Public company comparables.

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a month 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 —...

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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

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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...

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Reading Zanzibar

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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...

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Arduino’s Automatic Reset

a month 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),...

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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

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2 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...

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testing data structures per element

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2 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...

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Recently

2 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:...

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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro

2 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...

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Twenty Years of Guild Wars

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2 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...

2 months ago

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Name that Ware, April 2025

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2 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...

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A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

2 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...

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Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools

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

2 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...

2 months ago

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Getting nothing done

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

2 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...

2 months ago

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Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI

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

2 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...

2 months ago

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Don't make Google sell Chrome

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

2 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...

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On Dropouts and Bootstraps

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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...

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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

2 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...

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Craft and Satisfaction

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2 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...

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How to get customers who love you even when you screw up

2 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...

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Memoirs of the Early Internet

2 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...

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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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2 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...

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NNCPNET Can Optionally Exchange Internet Email

2 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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wingolog

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

2 months ago

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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 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

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Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax

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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...

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How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016)

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

2 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...

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Requirements change until they don't

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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...

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We'll always need junior programmers

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

2 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...

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Brian Regan Helped Me Understand My Aversion to Job Titles

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

2 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...

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Bike Brooklyn! zine

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2 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...

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Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 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)

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React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)

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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...

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library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases

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2 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...

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The innovative designs of 1995

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2 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...

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A flash of light in the darkness

2 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...

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A Way Forward

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2 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...

2 months ago

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DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp

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

2 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...

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“I Don’t See Why Not”

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

2 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...

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“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan

2 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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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...

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The five stages of incident response

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

2 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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2 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...

2 months ago

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Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

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

2 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...

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SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

2 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...

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You’re Only As Strong As Your Weakest Point

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2 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...

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An unplanned upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

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

2 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...

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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

2 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...

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All software engineers should freelance or found a business

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2 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...

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Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017).

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

2 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....

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The new Framework 13 HX370

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

2 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...

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Beyond `None`: actionable error messages for `keyring.get_password()`

2 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.

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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

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2 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...

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Be Mindful of What You Make Easy

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2 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...

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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

2 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...

2 months ago

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The value of "Yes, and..."

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2 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...

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Localising the `` with JavaScript

2 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...

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Normal boyhood is ADHD

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2 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...

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Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey

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

2 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...

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Thoughts on releasing our first indie game

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2 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

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Typing instance variables in mixins

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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...

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Some Love For Interoperable Apps

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

2 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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Josh Comeau's blog

The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...

2 months ago

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The Post-Developer Era

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2 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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Herman's blog

Yes, I will have coffee with you On meeting up in meatspace

2 months ago

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Yes, I will have coffee with you

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2 months ago

On meeting up in meatspace

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MMapped blog

3000 days of Duolingo

2 months ago

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3000 days of Duolingo

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2 months ago

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ntietz.com blog -...

Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...

2 months ago

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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler

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

2 months ago

After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...

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A Smart Bear

Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.

2 months ago

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Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money?

2 months ago

What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.

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Blog - Bitfield...

Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a...

2 months ago

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Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency

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

2 months ago

How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.

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Confessions of a...

Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming Understand how computers represent numbers and perform operations at the bit level before diving...

2 months ago

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Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming

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2 months ago

Understand how computers represent numbers and perform operations at the bit level before diving into assembly

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macwright.com

Tidbyt without the company (async () => { const colors =...

2 months ago

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Tidbyt without the company

2 months ago

(async () => { const colors = ['fb6b1d','e83b3b','831c5d','c32454','f04f78','f68181','fca790','e3c896','ab947a','966c6c','625565','3e3546','0b5e65','0b8a8f','1ebc73','91db69','fbff86','fbb954','cd683d','9e4539','7a3045','6b3e75','905ea9','a884f3','eaaded', '8fd3ff', '4d9be6',...

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Contraption Co.

How to host web apps on a Mac Mini Open-sourcing Toolbox, a framework for Mac-based home web servers

2 months ago

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How to host web apps on a Mac Mini

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2 months ago

Open-sourcing Toolbox, a framework for Mac-based home web servers

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David Heinemeier...

Believe it's going to work even though it probably won't To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work —...

2 months ago

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Believe it's going to work even though it probably won't

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

2 months ago

To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work — despite knowing it probably won't! That sounds like an oxymoron, but it's really not. Believing that what you're building is going to work is an essential component of coming to work...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Ductility in Software I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a...

2 months ago

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Ductility in Software

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

2 months ago

I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a physics/engineering setting when talking about materials. Here’s an answer on Quora to: “What is ductile?” Ductility is the ability of a material to be permanently deformed without...

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Quentin Santos

How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...

2 months ago

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How to use “real” UART

2 months ago

I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...

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the singularity is...

Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...

2 months ago

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Critical Trade Theory

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

2 months ago

You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...

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Irrational...

How to get better at strategy? One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben,...

2 months ago

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How to get better at strategy?

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

2 months ago

One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben, who describes his path to becoming wealthy as, “When I was seventeen, I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.” I wish I could...

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The Changelog

Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...

2 months ago

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Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

2 months ago

From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...

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David Gerrells

chasing the dragon Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...

2 months ago

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chasing the dragon

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

2 months ago

Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.

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PostHog's RSS Feed

7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...

2 months ago

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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

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

2 months ago

To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…

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Dan Quach Blog

A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...

2 months ago

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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago

Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Background Image Opacity in CSS The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background...

2 months ago

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Background Image Opacity in CSS

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

2 months ago

The other day I was working on something where I needed to use CSS to apply multiple background images to an element, e.g. <div> My content with background images. </div> <style> div { background-image: url(image-one.jpg), url(image-two.jpg); ...

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Computer Things

Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things,...

2 months ago

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Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog

2 months ago

I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming Languages. I originally showcased the paradigm with puzzle solvers, like eight queens or four-coloring. Lots of other demos...

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Elad Blog

Market Ending Moves Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's...

2 months ago

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Market Ending Moves

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2 months ago

Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic

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The History of the...

1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was...

2 months ago

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1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web

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2 months ago

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.

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David Heinemeier...

Why we won't hire a junior with five years of experience We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last...

2 months ago

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Why we won't hire a junior with five years of experience

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

2 months ago

We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last hired a junior, but the real reason the listing is turning heads is because we're open about the yearly salary: $145,849*. That's high enough that programmers with lots of experience...

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Eric Bailey

Article pitch for your consideration A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...

2 months ago

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Article pitch for your consideration

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

2 months ago

A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website. Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...

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David Heinemeier...

Universal Basic Dead End While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer...

2 months ago

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Universal Basic Dead End

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

2 months ago

While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer ready for the big question of "what are we all going to do when the jobs are gone": Just pay everyone enough to loaf around as they see fit! Problem solved, right? Wrong. The...

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davidyat.es

Up to eleven

2 months ago

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Up to eleven

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2 months ago

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macwright.com

Recently Reading Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers...

2 months ago

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Recently

2 months ago

Reading Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of...

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ntietz.com blog -...

Typing using my keyboard (the other kind) I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore,...

2 months ago

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Typing using my keyboard (the other kind)

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

2 months ago

I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore, so I set it up in my office. It's got 61 keys and you can hook up a pedal to it, too! But when you hook it up to the computer, you can't type with it. I mean, that's expected—it...

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Steve Klabnik

Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust

2 months ago

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Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust

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2 months ago

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Irrational...

Script for consistent linking within book. As part of my work on #eng-strategy-book, I’ve been editing a bunch of stuff. This morning I wanted...

2 months ago

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Script for consistent linking within book.

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

2 months ago

As part of my work on #eng-strategy-book, I’ve been editing a bunch of stuff. This morning I wanted to work on two editing problems. First, I wanted to ensure I was referencing strategies evenly across chapters (and not relying too heavily on any given strategy). Second, I wanted...

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alexwlchan

Always running I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other...

2 months ago

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Always running

2 months ago

I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...

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A Smart Bear

Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...

2 months ago

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Sometimes never compete on price

2 months ago

The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Tag, You’re It I saw these going around, but didn’t think I’d ever see myself get tagged — then Eric assuaged my...

2 months ago

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Tag, You’re It

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

2 months ago

I saw these going around, but didn’t think I’d ever see myself get tagged — then Eric assuaged my FOMO. As I’ve done elsewhere talking about how I blog, I’m gonna try and impose a character limit to my answers (~240). I’m not sure if that makes my job as the writer easier or...

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Confessions of a...

Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles

2 months ago

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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

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2 months ago

Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles

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Josh Collinsworth

The blissful zen of a good side project One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

2 months ago

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The blissful zen of a good side project

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2 months ago

One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

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Irrational...

How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020) One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term...

2 months ago

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How to resource Engineering-driven projects at Calm? (2020)

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

2 months ago

One of the recurring challenges in any organization is how to split your attention across long-term and short-term problems. Your software might be struggling to scale with ramping user load while also knowing that you have a series of meaningful security vulnerabilities that...

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macwright.com

Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...

2 months ago

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Personal tools

2 months ago

I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Flow State and Surfing Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity,...

2 months ago

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Flow State and Surfing

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

2 months ago

Jack Johnson is on Rick Rubin’s podcast Tetragrammaton talking about music, film making, creativity, and surfing. At one point (~24:30) Johnson talks about his love for surfing and the beautiful flow state it puts him in: Sometimes I’ll see a friend riding a wave while I’m...

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Ognjen Regoje •...

All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after...

2 months ago

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All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve

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2 months ago

At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after solving a small technical glitch. We should probably make that a part of every talk. Have the mic not connect automatically, or an almost-complete puzzle on the stage that the speaker...

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Ralph Ammer

Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine! A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid...

2 months ago

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Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine!

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2 months ago

A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid the turmoil of life, riddled with wickedness and pain, he would insist that our world is good. And all our success is built on this belief. Note: Before we start, let’s get one...

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Computer Things

[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...

3 months ago

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[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers

3 months ago

My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...

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Irrational...

Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...

3 months ago

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Systems model of API deprecation

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

3 months ago

In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...

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MMapped blog

Static types are for perfectionists

3 months ago

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Static types are for perfectionists

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3 months ago

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The Codist

What Is Software Quality? Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...

3 months ago

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What Is Software Quality?

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3 months ago

Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it? This is the longest single blog post I have ever written. I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server

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bunnie's blog

Name that Ware, March 2025 The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong,...

3 months ago

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Name that Ware, March 2025

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3 months ago

The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong, and thought it had some merit as a name that ware. But perhaps more interestingly, I was also experimenting with my cross-polarized imaging setup. This is a technique a friend of...

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David Heinemeier...

Great AI Steals Picasso got it right: Great artists steal. Even if he didn’t actually say it, and we all just repeat...

3 months ago

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Great AI Steals

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

3 months ago

Picasso got it right: Great artists steal. Even if he didn’t actually say it, and we all just repeat the quote because Steve Jobs used it. Because it strikes at the heart of creativity: None of it happens in a vacuum. Everything is inspired by something. The best ideas, angles,...

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ntietz.com blog -...

Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what...

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Shadowing in Python gave me an UnboundLocalError

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3 months ago

There's this thing in Python that always trips me up. It's not that tricky, once you know what you're looking for, but it's not intuitive for me, so I do forget. It's that shadowing a variable can sometimes give you an UnboundLocalError! It happened to me last week while working...

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On Test Automation

Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...

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Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time

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3 months ago

A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed. Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...

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Daniel Marino

Making an Escape Room with only HTML and CSS Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This...

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Making an Escape Room with only HTML and CSS

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3 months ago

Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This isn’t my first JavaScript-free web game, but HTML and CSS have evolved significantly since my previous attempts, with newer additions allowing for more complex selectors and native...

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davidyat.es

Adventures in pixel space

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Adventures in pixel space

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the...

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Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag

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

3 months ago

Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns white...

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Tony Finch's blog

syntax highlighting with tree-sitter I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I...

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syntax highlighting with tree-sitter

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3 months ago

I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I learned, with some complaining. static site generator markdown ingestion highlighting incompatible?! highlight names class names styling code results future...

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A Smart Bear

How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with...

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

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Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with downsides, and using an appropriate decision framework.

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David Heinemeier...

The Year on Linux I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or...

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The Year on Linux

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

3 months ago

I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two...

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alexwlchan

Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development...

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Monki Gras 2025: What I’ve Learned by Building to Last

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Yesterday I gave a talk at Monki Gras 2025. This year, the theme is Sustaining Software Development Craft, and here’s the description from the conference website: The big question we want to explore is – how can we keep doing the work we do, when it sustains us, provides meaning...

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The Changelog

Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...

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Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible

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As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...

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tonsky.me

Talk: Clojure workflow with Sublime Text @ SciCloj A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload...

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Talk: Clojure workflow with Sublime Text @ SciCloj

3 months ago

A deep overview of Clojure Sublimed, Socket REPL, Sublime Executor, custom color scheme, clj-reload and Clojure+. We discuss many usability choices, implementation details, and broader observations and insights regarding Clojure editors and tooling in general.

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Irrational...

Is this strategy any good? We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its...

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Is this strategy any good?

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3 months ago

We’ve read a lot of strategy at this point in the book. We can judge a strategy’s format, and its construction: both are useful things. However, format is a predictor of quality, not quality itself. The remaining question is, how should we assess whether a strategy is any...

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Nelson's Weblog

Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...

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Angkor Wat resources

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3 months ago

I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

The Value of Experience Adam Silver has an article titled “Do you trust design advice from ChatGPT?” wherein he prompted the...

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The Value of Experience

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3 months ago

Adam Silver has an article titled “Do you trust design advice from ChatGPT?” wherein he prompted the LLM: How do you add hint text to radio buttons? It gave various suggestions, each of which Adam breaks down. Here’s an an example response from ChatGPT: If you want the hint to...

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Computer Things

Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness Logic for Programmers v0.8 now out! The new release has minor changes: new formatting for notes and...

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Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness

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Logic for Programmers v0.8 now out! The new release has minor changes: new formatting for notes and a better introduction to predicates. I would have rolled it all into v0.9 next month but I like the monthly cadence. Get it here! Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering...

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David Heinemeier...

It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp,...

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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit

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

3 months ago

We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our...

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General Robots

Correct vs Good Part 2: Can we have it both ways?

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Correct vs Good

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3 months ago

Part 2: Can we have it both ways?

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Herman's blog

The Great Scrape Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine

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The Great Scrape

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3 months ago

Scraper bots are destroying the commons to feed the machine

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ByteofDev

Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...

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Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them

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3 months ago

JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price

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TokyoDev

How to grow your startup through community Over my career, I’ve spent at least one thousand working hours on supporting local developer...

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How to grow your startup through community

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Over my career, I’ve spent at least one thousand working hours on supporting local developer communities. My current business, TokyoDev, has spent over 8 million Japanese yen (about 53,000 USD) on community sponsorships. What have I received in return? That depends on your...

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David Heinemeier...

To hell with forever Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point...

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To hell with forever

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3 months ago

Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point of the average wealthy male life expectancy. Another scoop of life as big as the one I've already been served seems more than enough, thank you very much. Does that strike you as...

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alexwlchan

Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions? A week ago, somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. If you used...

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Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?

3 months ago

A week ago, somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action. If you used the compromised action, it would leak secrets to your build log. Those build logs are public for public repositories, so anybody could see your secrets. Scary! Mutable vs...

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Epic Web Dev

.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article) A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their...

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.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article)

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A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their differences, use cases, and best practices

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Alex MacCaw

We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...

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We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking

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3 months ago

At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.

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The History of the...

Our Online Homes Need Infastructure A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we...

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Our Online Homes Need Infastructure

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3 months ago

A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together? The post Our Online Homes Need Infastructure appeared first on The History of the Web.

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charity.wtf

Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...

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Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon

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Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...

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Blog System/5

The next generation of Bazel builds Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to...

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The next generation of Bazel builds

3 months ago

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like.

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Blog - Bitfield...

Things fall apart The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but...

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Things fall apart

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3 months ago

The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.

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TokyoDev

Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees...

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Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan

3 months ago

Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees with children under three. However, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act was amended in May 2024, with some of the new provisions coming into effect April 1 or October 1,...

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ntietz.com blog -...

Big endian and little endian Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does...

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Big endian and little endian

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

3 months ago

Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does that mean? Something about it breaks my brain, and makes me feel like I can't tell which way is up and down, left and right. This is the blog post I've needed every time I run into...

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Maggie Appleton

Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive

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Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?

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3 months ago

A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive

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Acko.net

Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...

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Occlusion with Bells On

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3 months ago

Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...

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the singularity is...

The Tragic Case of Intel AI Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad...

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The Tragic Case of Intel AI

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3 months ago

Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad software. Most of this is a summary of the public #intel-hardware channel in the tinygrad discord. Intel currently is sitting on: 15,000 Gaudi 2 cards (with baseboards) 5,100 Intel Data...

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A Smart Bear

All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those...

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All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful

3 months ago

Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those that just look pretty in PowerPoint.

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Daniel Marino

Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...

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Self-avoiding Walk

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3 months ago

I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog

A Few Thoughts on Customizable Form Controls Web developers have been waiting years for traction in styling HTML form controls. Is it possible...

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A Few Thoughts on Customizable Form Controls

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3 months ago

Web developers have been waiting years for traction in styling HTML form controls. Is it possible the day has come? Here’s Jen Simmons on Mastodon: My team is working on a solution — you’ll apply appearance: base and switch to a new interoperable, consistent controls with easy to...

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tonsky.me

Podcast: Мир стал строго лучше @ Думаем дальше С Ильей Бирманом обсуждаем, как меньше критиковать, и — разумеется — критикуем Эпл изо всех сил.

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Podcast: Мир стал строго лучше @ Думаем дальше