21 More AWS Services They Should Cancel(opens in new tab)
Please Amazon 🙏 kill these services too.
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Own Your Web – Issue 15: Home Sweet Home(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 Let’s talk about the first thing many of your visitors will see and thus one of the most important places on any personal website: the home page. “The home” is where you leave a first impression and ...
Cloud Customer Patterns(opens in new tab)
Learned behaviors based on years of training.
You should use the Ruby on Rails logger block syntax(opens in new tab)
Summary Passing strings to the Rails logger methods (eg. Rails.logger.info(…)) causes unecessary object allocations, and if you’re calling methods to generate data for your log messages then it can cause unecessary CPU work too. In this post I’ll show you ...
There is no morning after pill for poor QA and Release Management(opens in new tab)
Let’s unpack the CrowdStrike debacle. I called it last week, and turns out I was spot on—it was a QA (Quality Assurance) problem. CrowdStrike’s own incident report confirms it. The fix they need? Better processes, better QA. This whole mess ...
Tech enthusiast discovers joy in simplicity of HTMX, embracing hypermedia trend, sparking FOMO.(opens in new tab)
Keep an eye out for the FOMO-inducing technologies. They’re the ones that don’t just add value to your skillset, but rekindle your passion for what you do.
How to compose math problems(opens in new tab)
When I was a young student (around 12), my math teacher had a unique requirement: students had to not only solve math problems but also compose them. This unconventional approach encouraged us to think creatively and critically… or not. While ...
Hackers & Designers Summer Camp!(opens in new tab)
Journal about my time at the 2024 Hackers & Designers summer camp in the Netherlands!
I conducted a community survey and here’s what I learned(opens in new tab)
Oh sweet, delicious, data. Get in my mouth.
NGINX Survival Guide: Serving Web Applications(opens in new tab)
Introduction In the second part of our NGINX Survival Guide, we dive into the practical aspects of using NGINX to serve web applications. This section will guid
Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size(opens in new tab)
Posted on Smashing Magazine: “Compliant” does not always equate to “usable.” But compliance does help set baseline requirements that benefit everyone…
After a Decade of React, Is Frontend a Post-React World Now?(opens in new tab)
“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 ...
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Startups and scale-ups are not supposed to fight fair(opens in new tab)
Here are just a few ways a seasoned CTO brings a gun to a knife fight.
This homelab setup is my favorite one yet.(opens in new tab)
I don't think I've found a more perfect homelab setup since
PHP/Laravel: Why we rewrote our app in Go(opens in new tab)
(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 ...
Self-care checklist(opens in new tab)
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!
Speaking at Conferences(opens in new tab)
My thoughts on preparing to speak at conferences.
Modern CI/CD - Part 1(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Leaving Elicit(opens in new tab)
Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave
Eleventy Buckets & Cascade Layers(opens in new tab)
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’ ...
Ep 12: Coffee w/ Dr. Sforzando & Prof. Leitmotif(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss(opens in new tab)
Your bad LCP score might be a backend issue(opens in new tab)
This is the best way to debug slow web pages.
Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon(opens in new tab)
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, ...
5 Things I Will Never Do Again as a CTO or Senior manager(opens in new tab)
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 ...
A Slash-Why Proposal(opens in new tab)
Get yourself a fancy little manifesto page, and tell us all what you’re about.
Found: 2024 Open Steno Community Mid-Year Survey Results(opens in new tab)
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?
Terminal Trove June 2024 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2024.
Free idea: design token ugly mode(opens in new tab)
The World Is Eating Software(opens in new tab)
The software industry is at the top of valuation, but the tail is wagging the dog.
July 2024(opens in new tab)
Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Keeping things in sync: derive vs test(opens in new tab)
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.
What can we remove?(opens in new tab)
Found: Temper(opens in new tab)
A custom bottom plate makes room for the controller, to allow for a lower overal height. A novel idea!
Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well(opens in new tab)
Logarithmic Challenges from Romanian Math Olympiads(opens in new tab)
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 ...
How to get inside the head of a hiring manager in web3(opens in new tab)
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
Niche Economy: The rise and fall of the group buy model in mechanical keyboards(opens in new tab)
Group buys are still used as a business model, but its popularity is dwindling quickly. Why is that, and is that justified?
A Guide to Python's Weak References Using weakref Module(opens in new tab)
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 ...
10 Examples Why cURL is an Awesome CLI Tool(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Ep 11: Horsing Around in the Third Dimension(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Get over the enterprise hump(opens in new tab)
Offer what enterprises need: compliance, convenience, empathy. Read up, start early.
Wu-Tang Clan’s Blockchain Blunder: From Heist Drama to Digital Yard Sale(opens in new tab)
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.
Found: Chew Split and Mono keyboards(opens in new tab)
Florent Linguenheld and their partner designed two keyboards that are filled with character and attention to detail.
Found: Akira Ball(opens in new tab)
A very cyberpunk-looking custom trackball mouse.
