Latest posts from blogs I follow
“If you’re a new web developer entering the profession, you might even consider eschewing React altogether — although admittedly, that will diminish your short-term job prospects. But it’s at least an option to seriously consider, and might even help you ...
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771* in 2024 (with quite a few of my fave NPR podcasts ...
Here are just a few ways a seasoned CTO brings a gun to a knife fight.
I don't think I've found a more perfect homelab setup since
(Modern) PHP: Does it really suck? Like many, many developers out there over the age of 30, I basically started my programming journey with PHP (and perl). Circa ~'05, PHP was the go-to language for the web, and Adobe Dreamweaver ...
To help my future self out, I made a self-care checklist I can use when I’m feeling bad. It might help you out, too!
My thoughts on preparing to speak at conferences.
What does it look like to build a modern CI/CD pipeline from scratch in 2024? While many of you would pick GitHub Actions and be done with it, how do you run it locally? And what do you need to ...
Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave
Solving a problem I created I’m re-working this site from scratch – sticking with Eleventy, but moving from Nunjucks templates/macros to WebC and web components. Outside of static-site templates, one goal of this refresh is to keep things as ‘vanilla’ ...
Austen Sforzando and Jesse Leitmotif contemplate the fine intricacies of jazz drumming, the musical concepts of Dredg, the 3D printing of multi-stringed instruments, and brewing coffee with pourovers, moka pots, and/or french presses. We might also nerd about keyboards for ...
This is the best way to debug slow web pages.
In what looks like a very smart move, the team at Mastodon just released a very nice new feature for media organizations, journalists and bloggers: when someone shares a link to an article by certain news outlets like The Verge, ...
Becoming a good manager is not only about learning what to do. It is also what not to do. These are some of my hardest-won lessons as I write this as a diary to myself.I will never again Be the ...
Get yourself a fancy little manifesto page, and tell us all what you’re about.
Stenography is a different way of text input, writing in syllables at a time. Every once in a while there's a census. What is the community like in 2024?
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2024.
The software industry is at the top of valuation, but the tail is wagging the dog.
note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his side on the logistics and sponsorships but we never got round to it and its been a year and a half ...
There are times when we need to stop trying to make everything sync automatically, and just test that it is synced. Tips for Python and web dev.
A custom bottom plate makes room for the controller, to allow for a lower overal height. A novel idea!
In the landscape of the Romanian 10th-grade Math Olympiad, logarithms are a distinct and recurring theme. While they don’t dominate the entire curriculum, a problem involving them is bound to appear, often requiring a deep understanding of algebraic inequalities and ...
We're diving deep into the mind of a tech hiring manager—yours truly. You've got questions, I’ve got answers. Been around the block from gaming to med tech, and now I’m living in the technicolor dream of Web3.First off, LinkedIn
Group buys are still used as a business model, but its popularity is dwindling quickly. Why is that, and is that justified?
Chances are that you never touched and maybe haven't even heard about Python's `weakref` module. While it might not be commonly used in your code, it's fundamental to inner workings of many libraries, frameworks and even Python itself. So, in ...
Whether you're developer, DevOps engineer, SysAdmin, QA or in any other technical role, you're surely familiar with cURL - _the command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs_ (as described in docs). Most of the time however, we ...
Austen and Jesse dig into the backlog of past recordings and publish another episode! This one is all about horsing around with trailers, hand-wiring keyboards, counterfeiting soldering irons, printing in the third dimension, and PHP.Tell us! What do you think ...
Offer what enterprises need: compliance, convenience, empathy. Read up, start early.
Witness Wu-Tang Clan’s legendary album saga, from Martin Shkreli’s villainous grip to blockchain chaos. Discover how a $2 million secret became a $1 digital free-for-all, raising questions about the future of music and digital hype.
Florent Linguenheld and their partner designed two keyboards that are filled with character and attention to detail.
A very cyberpunk-looking custom trackball mouse.
A hip ska-themed stenography keyboard designed by Lucy Goose.
“One dev team made the shift from React’s "overwhelming VDOM" to modern DOM APIs. They immediately saw speed and interaction improvements.”
Alright, so here’s the thing. Ideas might grow on trees, but actually pulling them down and turning them into something meaningful? That’s special. That is the hard part. So I’m just gonna spill my brains here in the hope it ...
I maintain a GitHub Action called check-for-changed-files. For the purpose of this blog post what the action does isn't important, but the fact that I authored it originally in TypeScript is. See, one day I tried to update the NPM ...
A race report of the Banthumloop, where I challenged my goal time of 30:00 at a distance of 5k.
Transcript version of my talk for Digital Art in Ireland, presented June 14th 2024!
“After a lot of public pushback, heated discussions, and probably a good deal of talking behind the scenes, the React team backed out and decided to hold off on this change for now.”
How to find and setup a Windows 7 computer for old games and software! (I did my setup originally for 3D modelling)
The first time I went mountain biking, during a weekend trip with a group of unfamiliar people.
Just like the only numbers programmers care about are zero, one, infinity, the only frequencies we care about are Never, Sometimes and Always.
After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized that phrasing the use of GitHub Sponsors ...