Advent of Code, 2024, Day 1 in Golang: Historian Hysteria(opens in new tab)
Introduction Hello everyone, it’s that time of the year, Advent of Code, I will be solving this year as well with Golang. In previous years I have been doing
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You Should Be Hiring Mullets. (write that down)(opens in new tab)
Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now."Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point.In our corporate, don't-let-HR-see-this reality,
Terminal Trove November 2024 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2024.
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering(opens in new tab)
If Not React, Then What?(opens in new tab)
“Frameworkism preaches that the way to improve user experiences is to adopt more (or different) tooling from the framework's ecosystem. This provides adherents with something to do that looks plausibly like engineering, except it isn't. It can even become a ...
What the PSF Conduct WG does(opens in new tab)
In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such, I wanted to clarify what exactly the ...
Designing (and Evolving) a New Web Performance Score(opens in new tab)
Why design another new performance score?! Good question…
Alpine.js for home-cooked apps(opens in new tab)
Paths to business value in Developer Relations(opens in new tab)
This post is not about measuring success in DevRel, but about making an impact in a way *only* DevRel can do, and *should* be doing.
The Missing Manual for AI Coding Assistants(opens in new tab)
"Help me help you!" I caught myself shouting at Co-pilot last week. Yes, literally shouting at my AI assistant like Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. That's when it hit me - this wasn't about the AI at all. This was ...
How I show Bluesky likes on my blog posts(opens in new tab)
Learn how to use the Bluesky API to show likes and Bluesky user avatars on your blog posts when you share them on Bluesky.
Free Audio Plugins: Accusonus ERA 6 Bundle(opens in new tab)
I’ve been down in an audio plugin rabbit hole lately. More on that in a later blog post. But I just stumbled upon a set of free plugins that might be of interest to you, if you are doing voice ...
I don't have time to learn React(opens in new tab)
“React proponents might claim that React will teach you modern UI, but from what I've seen it barely copes with modern UI. autofocus is broken, custom elements don't work in all but the experimental version, using any "modern" features like ...
Python Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales (2024)(opens in new tab)
Search Needs a Human Solution: A Manifesto(opens in new tab)
When was the last time you felt genuine discovery on the internet? Not algorithmic recommendations. Not SEO-optimized listicles. I mean real, surprising, meaningful discovery. Search is broken but not in the way tech companies think. We don't need better algorithms ...
Engineering AI Agents - OpenAI DevDay Singapore talk(opens in new tab)
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore. I'll add photos and notes and stuff when i'm done. note that the full slides contain a lot more info that i had to ...
Core Web Vitals Colours(opens in new tab)
If, like me, you frequently require the Core Web Vitals colour palete, here it is!
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system(opens in new tab)
A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers(opens in new tab)
How it started This story began, unexpectedly, on Facebook in a math-focused group. A teacher asked the group to determine the value of: $\lfloor 3^{\sqrt{3}}\rfloor$ without using a calculator. Naturally, the challenge was to prove whether $\lfloor 3^{\sqrt{3}}\rfloor=6$ or $\lfloor ...
The embed package is a lot more useful than I originally thought...(opens in new tab)
Sometimes, it takes a lot of felt pain when building software to realize there's a solution you once overlooked
223: Writing Stuff Down is a Super Power(opens in new tab)
Taking notes well can help to listen better, remember things, show respect, be more accountable, free up mind space to solve problems.This episode discussesthe benefits of writing things downpreparing for a meetingtaking notes in meetingsreviewing notes for action items, todo ...
My 2024 New Mac Setup(opens in new tab)
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Don’t forget to localize your icons(opens in new tab)
JS Party Will Be in NYC at React Summit!(opens in new tab)
We're conducting interviews and having fun learning about React!
Own Your Web – Issue 16: Under Construction(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 For the summer holidays, my family and I went to France. On our way to the Atlantic Ocean, we shortly stopped in Chartres, a lovely town southwest of Paris, which is famous for its monumental and impressively ...
New microblog with TILs(opens in new tab)
Why are we using LLMs as calculators?(opens in new tab)
We keep trying to get LLMs to do math. We want them to count the number of “rs” in strawberry, to perform algebraic reasoning, do multiplication, and to solve math theorems. A recent experiment particularly piqued my interest. Researchers used ...
Don't return named tuples in new APIs(opens in new tab)
In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you're updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple return value from another API.Let's start with when you ...
Terminal Trove October 2024 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in October 2024.
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter(opens in new tab)
2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and ...
How to Set Your Domain as Your Bluesky Handle(opens in new tab)
As Twitter is (far too) slowly falling apart and more and more people are looking for alternatives, Bluesky is enjoying a surge in popularity at the moment. One neat little feature is that you can use your own domain as ...
This weird keyboard technique has improved the way I type.(opens in new tab)
One of the biggest things I struggled with throughout my career is good form when it comes to typing, that is until I discovered Home Row Mods, and how they've improved the way that I type.
ASCII control characters in my terminal(opens in new tab)
Use Embedded Replicas of LibSQL Database hosted on Turso with a Golang Application(opens in new tab)
Introduction Welcome to the Let's Go with Turso series. In this series, we will learn how to interact with LibSQL databases with Golang. In the past article of
Move fast & break nothing(opens in new tab)
This is the audio version of 🎬 Ninjastructure - Move fast & break nothingMatias Pan, a professional maté drinker & Senior Software Engineer at Dagger, is showing us an approach to Infrastructure as Code built with Pulumi.We look at Go ...
Windows, KVM, and time zones(opens in new tab)
If you’re running Windows VMs beneath a Linux KVM host, you’ve very likely been plagued by an annoying issue: they start up with the wrong time by several hours, every time they’re rebooted, no matter what you do. The issue ...
SQLc is the perfect tool for those who don't like ORMs(opens in new tab)
For the longest time now, I've been a fan of using direct SQL queries over using an ORM. However, there's one major drawback to this, one that this new package solves.
Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components(opens in new tab)
“React has become a bloated carcass of false promises, misleading claims, and unending layers of backwards compatibility – the wrong kind of backwards compatibility, as they still occasionally break your fucking code when updating.”
Nix is my favorite package manager to use on macOS(opens in new tab)
Nix-Darwin has made working on macOS an absolute dream.
Some notes on upgrading Hugo(opens in new tab)
Early Stage Company Offsites(opens in new tab)
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
GDrive to S3(opens in new tab)
I have Google Takeout setup to periodically export to GDrive as a series of 10Gb .zip files. I’ve been meaning to get these over to S3 for a bit in part for backup purposes, and in part because I wanted ...
How to build a counter component using the HTML Framework in just 1 line of code(opens in new tab)
“Locate your /node_modules folder and drag it to the trash bin.”
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh(opens in new tab)
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
