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Espressif’s Automatic Reset

3 months ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

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....

How I built a chatbot with my dog

3 months ago

from Contraption Co. in programming

Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval

Write the most clever code you possibly can

3 months ago

from Computer Things in programming

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...

I switched from GMail and nobody died

3 months ago

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov in programming

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...

Language Needs Innovation

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later

3 months ago

from elementary Blog in programming

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...

The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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 System-Level Foundation of Assembly

3 months ago

from Confessions of a Code Addict in programming

Tracing how the CPU, OS, and ELF format shape the structure of your assembly code

Taking a break

3 months ago

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog in programming

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...

Handling JSON objects with duplicate names in Python

3 months ago

from alexwlchan in programming

Consider the following JSON object: { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } Notice that sides and colour both...

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

3 months ago

from A Smart Bear in programming

When even "free" is too expensive.

Linux always toggles DTR & RTS

3 months ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

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)...

Public company comparables.

3 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

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...

On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

3 months ago

from charity.wtf in programming

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...

Reading Zanzibar

3 months ago

from macwright.com in programming

Google published Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization – enforcing who can do...

Arduino’s Automatic Reset

3 months ago

from Quentin Santos in programming

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...

Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

3 months ago

from Oxide Computer Company Blog in programming

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...

testing data structures per element

3 months ago

from Tony Finch's blog in programming

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...

Recently

3 months ago

from macwright.com in programming

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...

When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro

3 months ago

from tonsky.me in programming

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...

Twenty Years of Guild Wars

3 months ago

from Code Of Honor in programming

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...

Name that Ware, April 2025

3 months ago

from bunnie's blog in programming

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...

A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers

3 months ago

from alexwlchan in programming

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...

Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

Getting nothing done

3 months ago

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting in programming

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...

Adding window clearing and message printing to DandeGUI

3 months ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![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,...

Don't make Google sell Chrome

3 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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...

On Dropouts and Bootstraps

3 months ago

from charity.wtf in programming

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...

Measuring my Framework laptop's performance in 3 positions

3 months ago

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog in programming

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...

Craft and Satisfaction

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

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

3 months ago

from A Smart Bear in programming

Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from earnest people, not stolid, cold, inhuman...

Memoirs of the Early Internet

3 months ago

from The Changelog in programming

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...

Osaka Team Retreat Recap

3 months ago

from Marc Astbury in programming

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...

NNCPNET Can Optionally Exchange Internet Email

3 months ago

from The Changelog in programming

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...

Three degrees of validity

3 months ago

from MMapped blog in programming

partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

3 months ago

from wingolog in programming

Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have...

Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax

3 months ago

from Jake Zimmerman in programming

How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016)

3 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

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...

Requirements change until they don't

3 months ago

from Computer Things in programming

Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when the system requirements are constantly changing?...

We'll always need junior programmers

3 months ago

from David Heinemeier Hansson in programming

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...

Brian Regan Helped Me Understand My Aversion to Job Titles

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...

Bike Brooklyn! zine

3 months ago

from Liz Denys in programming

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....

Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2

3 months ago

from 37signals Dev in programming

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...

React Component Testing with Vitest (workshop)

3 months ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

library-mcp: working with Markdown knowledge bases

3 months ago

from Irrational Exuberance in programming

At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various accounting, cash reconciliation, and operational...

The innovative designs of 1995

3 months ago

from The History of the Web in programming

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.

A flash of light in the darkness

3 months ago

from alexwlchan in programming

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...

A Way Forward

3 months ago

from the singularity is nearer in programming

“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...

DandeGUI, a GUI library for Medley Interlisp

3 months ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![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",...

“I Don’t See Why Not”

3 months ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

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...