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The 6 Hours of Lex

3 weeks ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into stints of roughly two hours at a time. It's intense....

21

Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo

3 weeks ago

from Blog of Simple Analytics in programming

19

Computers Are a Feeling

4 weeks ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our...

23

German court rules Meta’s tracking tech violates GDPR

4 weeks ago

from Blog of Simple Analytics in programming

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New Edna feature: multiple notes

4 weeks ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

I started working on Edna several months ago and I’ve implemented lots of functionality. Edna is a note taking application with super powers. I...

28

Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career

4 weeks ago

from charity.wtf in programming

I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think,...

24

Single-Use Disposable Applications

a month ago

from General Robots in programming

As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to find.

15

Is ShareFile GDPR Compliant?

a month ago

from Blog of Simple Analytics in programming

21

Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies of Windows or MacOS are awful compared to web...

21

Logic for Programmers Turns One

a month ago

from Computer Things in programming

I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the anniversary of something that isn't 1.0 yet, but software...

16

Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Translating user interface of SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is the best PDF/eBook/Comic Book viewer for Windows. It’s small, fast, full of...

22

Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website

a month ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political correspondent at The Verge, reached out with some...

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Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan

a month ago

from TokyoDev in programming

After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article...

13

Case study of over-engineered C++ code

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

You’ve heard of over-engineered, unnecessarily complex code but what exactly is it? I believe it’s best to show by example. While it’s not my...

23

Do You Even Personalize, Bro?

a month ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until now — called Algorithms are breaking how we think....

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What can agents actually do?

a month ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the...

23

My first year since coming back to Linux

a month ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my...

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Overanalyzing a minor quirk of Espressif’s reset circuit

a month ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog and the reproduced circuit, when it comes to EN:...

19

Can tinygrad win?

a month ago

from the singularity is nearer in programming

This is not going to be a cakewalk like self driving cars. Most of comma’s competition is now out of business, taking billions and billions of dollars...

19

Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is an interface without any methods, typed as...

17

Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей

a month ago

from tonsky.me in programming

Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие

28

Are we the baddies?

a month ago

from the singularity is nearer in programming

I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly...

12

Size textarea to content

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

To size textarea to content: textarea { field-sizing: content; min-height: 8rem; max-height: 70vh; } Using tailwindcss: <textarea...

34

Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

a month ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe...

27

Another tip (tip)

a month ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

20

All about Svelte 5 snippets

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet basics A snippet is a function that...

27

Logical Quantifiers in Software

a month ago

from Computer Things in programming

I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both...

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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit

a month ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it...

20

Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS

a month ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL...

23

clamp / median / range

a month ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison style clamp style clamp is median clamp in...

20

C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

SumatraPDF is a medium size (120k+ loc, not counting dependencies) Windows GUI (win32) C++ code base started by me and written by mostly 2 people. The...

20

Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility

a month ago

from elementary Blog in programming

July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to...

24

Digital hygiene: Emails

a month ago

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

Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.

25

Building a container orchestrator

a month ago

from Alice GG in programming

Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even...

19

Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to...

23

An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website

a month ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to...

27

AmigaGuide Reference Library

a month ago

from markround.com in programming

As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total...

25

That boolean should probably be something else

a month ago

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog in programming

One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet,...

21

Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article describes how I implemented StrVec class for efficiently...

37

The parental dead end of consent morality

a month ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're...

25

Why learn about the golden-section search

a month ago

from Words and Buttons Online in programming

An interactive demo of bisection search and golden ratio search algorithms. There is also a motivation to learn them both. Spoiler alert! One...

21

Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application...

26

Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit

a month ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There...

30

Why This Old Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore

a month ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

A deep dive into Python’s name resolution, bytecode, and how CPython 3.11 quietly made a popular optimization irrelevant.

25

Self-driving is finally happening

a month ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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...

23

Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

Large web pages, especially documentation, benefit from having a table of contents for navigating within document. This article describes how I...

68

Omarchy is out

a month ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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...

29

Golang and Let's Encrypt: a free software story

a month ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

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...

22

Go is 80/20 language

a month ago

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog in programming

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...

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New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal

a month ago

from Julia Evans in programming

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...