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Kagi status update: First three years

2 months ago

from Kagi Blog in programming

Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put...

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

2 months ago

from elementary Blog in programming

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...

moka pot notes

2 months ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

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...

Retreating to Safety

2 months ago

from Marco.org in programming

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...

A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan

2 months ago

from TokyoDev in programming

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...

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

2 months ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

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.

the algebra of dependent types

2 months ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

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...

What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway

2 months ago

from Computer Things in programming

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...

Tradeoffs to Continuous Software?

2 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable...

Beginning 3D printing

2 months ago

from Blog System/5 in programming

A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.

Nerding out about heaters

2 months ago

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

Keeping warm in the winter

Talk: Local-first is not going to win, but that’s okay @ Local-First Conf

2 months ago

from tonsky.me in programming

We’ll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why. Then...

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

2 months ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

Today we go over how hydration errors happen in react-router and how to fix them.

Rust streams and timeouts gotcha

2 months ago

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov in programming

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...

Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB

2 months ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

Watch now (20 mins) | Learn how to inspect registers, step through instructions, and investigate crashes using GDB.

Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please?

2 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer explaining how motivated they were to make buying...

Stuff I learned at Carta.

2 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

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...

Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh

2 months ago

from Ink & Switch in programming

Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a peek at our work on collaborative game...

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

2 months ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

Test UI outcomes, not API requests. Mock network calls in setup, but assert on what users actually see and experience, not implementation details.

How to Pass the Resume Screening Stage in Japan

2 months ago

from TokyoDev in programming

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...

Ink Note Q2 2025: Scribble on your Google Calendar

2 months ago

from Ink & Switch in programming

How would it feel if you could scribble on top of your Google Calendar events?

Digging into git commit templates

2 months ago

from Tyler Cipriani: blog in programming

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...

Can Directories Rise Again?

2 months ago

from The History of the Web in programming

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...

Product Pseudoscience

2 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent...

HEY is finally for sale on the iPhone!

2 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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...

Is There a Japanese Equivalent of Glassdoor?

2 months ago

from TokyoDev in programming

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...

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

2 months ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different approaches, and trade-offs.

Have you tried the exact opposite?

2 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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....

Multiple Computers

2 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

Cheap mini PCs have gotten really good

2 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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)...

How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

2 months ago

from The Changelog in programming

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,...

The ESP32-S2 reset pin

2 months ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

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...

Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program

2 months ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what makes this program worth writing.

RubyKaigi 2025 Recap

2 months ago

from TokyoDev in programming

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...

Logo:

2 months ago

from tonsky.me in programming

Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.

Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader

2 months ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

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...

Beware the Complexity Merchants

2 months ago

from Charles Chen in programming

When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time

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

2 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+

2 months ago

from Computer Things in programming

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...

the penultimate conditional syntax

2 months ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”. It has the attractive goal of unifying pattern...

Coding should be a vibe!

2 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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...

Tempest Rising is a great game

2 months ago

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov in programming

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...

Notes from the Chrome Team’s “Blink principles of web compatibility”

2 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

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

2 months ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

react-router-devtools enhances debugging by adding automatic logging for loaders & actions, plus direct links to code origins in console logs.

Changing text style for DandeGUI window output

2 months ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![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....

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

2 months ago

from TokyoDev in programming

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...

systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM

2 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems models, and introduced it with this blog post...

How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast

3 months ago

from Engineer’s Codex in programming

Merkle Trees in the real world

a whippet waypoint

3 months ago

from wingolog in programming

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...

Stress And Programming

3 months ago

from The Codist in programming

Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more...