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It's beginning to feel like the 80s in America again

9 hours ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

Have I told you how much I've come to dislike the 90s? The depressive music, the ironic distance to everything, the deconstructive narratives, the...

Writing: Blog Posts and Songs

2 days ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter, political activist, and inductee into the Rock and Roll...

Doing versus Delegating

2 days ago

from Basta’s Notes in programming

A staff+ skill

p-fast trie, but smaller

2 days ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

Previously, I wrote some sketchy ideas for what I call a p-fast trie, which is basically a wide fan-out variant of an x-fast trie. It allows you to...

Software books I wish I could read

2 days ago

from Computer Things in programming

New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter...

Digital hygiene: Notifications

2 days ago

from ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog in programming

Take back your attention.

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles

2 days ago

from tonsky.me in programming

Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa. You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your...

HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML

3 days ago

from Acko.net in programming

Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still...

Omarchy is on the move

3 days ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly...

We Are Still the Web

3 days ago

from The History of the Web in programming

Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still...

Extending My Japanese Visa as a Freelancer

4 days ago

from TokyoDev in programming

With TokyoDev as my sponsor, I extended my Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa for another three years. I’m thrilled by this...

p-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map

4 days ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

Here’s a sketch of an idea that might or might not be a good idea. Dunno if it’s similar to something already described in the literature – if you...

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

5 days ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s...

Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance

5 days ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)

Executives should be the least busy people

a week ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

If your executive calendar is packed back to back, you have no room for fires, customers, or serendipities. You've traded all your availability for...

Dispatch 012: Local-first talks, Automerge 3, and Scribbling on a Google Calendar

a week ago

from Ink & Switch in programming

A secret master plan, the official launch of Automerge 3, and an update on Sketchy Calendars

React Server Components with Vite and React-Router (tip)

a week ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

Create a small example app and send payloads from the server to the client using RSC's

2000 words about arrays and tables

a week ago

from Computer Things in programming

I'm way too discombobulated from getting next month's release of Logic for Programmers ready, so I'm pulling a idea from the slush pile. Basically I...

Our $100M Series B

a week ago

from Oxide Computer Company Blog in programming

We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in USIT with participation from all existing Oxide...

Playing with open source LLMs

a week ago

from Alice GG in programming

Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy...

The beauty of ideals

a week ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

Ideals are supposed to be unattainable for the great many. If everyone could be the smartest, strongest, prettiest, or best, there would be no need...

How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy

a week ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others, that’s why they call them...

What Is A Good Programmer?

a week ago

from The Codist in programming

Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high...

Building competency is better than therapy

2 weeks ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

The world is waking to the fact that talk therapy is neither the only nor the best way to cure a garden-variety petite depression. Something many...

Programming Language Escape Hatches

2 weeks ago

from Computer Things in programming

The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as languages were part of the appeal is in figuring out how...

How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected)

2 weeks ago

from charity.wtf in programming

I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product. Most of them I didn’t care about (there...

It's a Beelink, baby

2 weeks ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs. My journey started out with a Minisforum UM870,...

How to Network as a Developer (Without Feeling Sleazy)

2 weeks ago

from TokyoDev in programming

“One of the comments that sparked this article,” our founder Paul McMahon told me, “was someone saying, ‘I don’t really want to do networking because...

Fixing Zed's debugger keybindings

2 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Zed has a good debugger built-in but their keybindings are crazy. Thankfully, you can remap them by opening menu Zed / Settings / Open key bindings...

Bazel and action (non-) determinism

2 weeks ago

from Blog System/5 in programming

A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions.

Covers as a way of learning music and code

2 weeks ago

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog in programming

When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself...

AltTab for Mac OS

2 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

AltTab solves a simple problem really well: it brings Windows-style Alt + Tab window switching to Mac OS. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. I...

Commenting on Notion docs via OpenAI and Zapier.

2 weeks ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge bases that comment on Notion documents. I was...

lazy import of JavaScript modules

2 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

When working on big JavaScript web apps, you can split the bundle in multiple chunks and import selected chunks lazily, only when needed. That makes...

x86 Assembly Exercise #1: Toy kill Program (Solution)

2 weeks ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

A step-by-step walkthrough of the toy kill program using raw Linux syscalls.

Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role.

2 weeks ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization with well‑understood goals, it’s easy to develop...

vite /rollup manualChunks

2 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

When building a large web app it’s possible to split the .js bundle into chunks and lazy load certain parts only when needed. For example, in Edna I...

Advancing the industry, part two.

3 weeks ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of “Things I’ve learned in the first half of my career as I turn...

The World After Wireheading

3 weeks ago

from the singularity is nearer in programming

Hold my hand, grow my skin Erica Western Geiger Counter Do you have any addictions? You may not register them as such, perhaps because they don’t lead...

Increase software sales by 50% or more

3 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by Steve Pavlina Of all the things you can do to...

Maybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming

3 weeks ago

from Computer Things in programming

I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently ported my neovim config to a new laptop. Before...

Occupation and Preoccupation

3 weeks ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

Here’s Jony Ive in his Stripe interview: What we make stands testament to who we are. What we make describes our values. It describes our...

American hype

3 weeks ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

There's no country on earth that does hype better than America. It's one of the most appealing aspects about being here. People are genuinely excited...

File sync is very slow

3 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

I’m working on a Go library appendstore for append-only store of lots of things in a single file. To make things as robust as possible I was calling...

Linux crosses magic market share threshold in US

3 weeks ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

According to Statcounter, Linux has claimed 5% market share of desktop computing in the US. That's double of where it was just three years ago! Really...

Understanding Registers and Data Movement in x86-64 Assembly

3 weeks ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

A hands-on guide to general-purpose registers and data movement in x86-64

Three attempts at making payments secure

3 weeks ago

from The History of the Web in programming

In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known...

A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)

3 weeks ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to peel back the abstraction and understand how code...

Gaslight-driven development

3 weeks ago

from tonsky.me in programming

Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just part of the experience. Millions of people create...

Measurement and Numbers

3 weeks ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to talk about product attributes that you can measure...