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Terminal Trove March 2024 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in March 2024.
218: Balancing test coverage with test costs - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya(opens in new tab)
Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when deciding which tests to write and how much testing is enough.We talk about:Balancing schedule vs testingHow much testing is the right about of testingShould ...
Invisible success(opens in new tab)
Show Your Work - Summary, Review & Thoughts(opens in new tab)
Why and how we should share the things we love to make.
Good links: 14 April 2024(opens in new tab)
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars(opens in new tab)
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
Your background images might be causing CLS(opens in new tab)
I broke the first rule of preventing CLS. Shame on me.
217: Podcasting / SaaS / Work Life Balance - Justin Jackson(opens in new tab)
If you've ever thought about starting a podcast or a SaaS project, you'll want to listen to this episode. Justin is one of the people who motivated me to get started podcasting. He's also running a successful SaaS company, transistor.fm, ...
Own Your Web – Issue 13: Now(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 There are many pages you can add to your personal site that people can visit if they want to learn more about you. A “contact” page or an “about” page are two classics that you’ll find on ...
Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool(opens in new tab)
If you work in shell/terminal often enough, then over time the history will become your personal knowledge vault, documentation and command reference. Being able to use this personal documentation efficiently can hugely boost your productivity. So, here are a couple ...
A good recipe: Ways with rhubarb(opens in new tab)
Python Project-Local Virtualenv Management Redux(opens in new tab)
One of my first TIL entries was about how you can imitate Node’s node_modules semantics in Python on UNIX-like operating systems. A lot has happened since then (to the better!) and it’s time for an update. direnv still rocks, though.
Terminal Trove February 2024 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in February 2024.
Upcoming talk: All Day Hey, Leeds - 2nd May 2024(opens in new tab)
The Upload (short story)(opens in new tab)
My first attempt at bringing back the short story in 30 years.
Good links: 31 March 2024(opens in new tab)
My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try(opens in new tab)
Before we begin, I’d like to clarify that the project ideas I am about to suggest are mainly intended for those who are interested in exploring new areas of knowledge. However, it’s important to note that most of these ideas ...
Own Your Web – Issue 12: Finding Your Rhythm(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 It is one of the most common reasons why we abandon our personal sites and blogs: at some point, we stop publishing. But why? Weren’t we so enthusiastic when we started (or restarted) our sites? Didn’t we ...
10 algebra problems selected from the Romanian Olympiad (Part 2)(opens in new tab)
Intro This article is a continuation of my previous selection of non-trivial algebra problems from the Romanian Math Olympiad for high-school students. However, this time I have included a few harder problems from the National Phase that would definitely provide ...
How I set up a new laptop(opens in new tab)
Well it’s that time again, migrating for one reason or another listlessly between computers as priorities and jobs change. Here’s a middle-depth breakdown of how I speed-run getting a new machine off the ground. This post is for Mac computer ...
The standard library now has all you need for advanced routing in Go.(opens in new tab)
Now that we have the new Go enchanced routing features, the standard library is all we need.
Organizing State of Diffusion++(opens in new tab)
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
A perceived contradiction to internalize when working on design systems(opens in new tab)
We Rewrote our React App in Svelte in Three Weeks(opens in new tab)
“I’ve seen all those headlines about Svelte being the “most loved” framework, and… well I admit, I just ignored it as noise. But the next time that survey comes around, I’ll be right up there with them, waving from the ...
Fixing the Logitech Spotlight(opens in new tab)
The Logitech Spotlight presentation remote is a sleek piece of hardware. It is comparatively small, fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the buttons come with a very satisfying, albeit for my taste a tiny bit too loud, ...
Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis(opens in new tab)
Gaining a strange disease and losing my ability to see straight
Use your Mac the way I do: a thought experiment(opens in new tab)
Making Own Your Web More Sustainable(opens in new tab)
I just published the 11th issue of Own Your Web, my newsletter about designing, building, creating, and publishing on the Web. When I started the newsletter back in autumn of 2023, I didn’t yet know what form the newsletter would ...
Some things I've been enjoying recently(opens in new tab)
Welcome to the IndieWeb(opens in new tab)
Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there is nothing you can do about it. Or imagine the online ...
Links Worth Sharing(opens in new tab)
Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, and other insights and ideas that we want to document, preserve, and share. The most obvious ...
A Surprising Matrix Problem(opens in new tab)
In this short article, I will discuss a cute mathematical problem that I discovered while reading “Polya’s Footsteps: Miscellaneous Mathematical Expositions” by the Canadian mathematician Ross Honsberger. If you’re not familiar with Honsberger’s work, he is a well-known author in ...
Own Your Web – Issue 11: Welcome to the IndieWeb(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there is nothing you can do about it. Or ...
216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust(opens in new tab)
Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.Ruff can take the place of Flake8, isort, and Black, and so much more.uv can take the place of pip, pip-tools, and virtualenvAstral is Charlie's venture backed company, and ...
A Collection of Design Engineers(opens in new tab)
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
Good links: 10 March 2024(opens in new tab)
Golang Web: POST Method(opens in new tab)
Introduction In this section of the series, we will be exploring how to send a HTTP request in golang. We will understand how to send a basic POST request, crea
Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2(opens in new tab)
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency(opens in new tab)
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using(opens in new tab)
All of us - software engineers - use git every day, however most people only ever touch the most basic of commands, such as "add", "commit", "push" or "pull", like it's still 2005. Git however, introduced many features since then, ...
80ms response SLO(opens in new tab)
Alex Sims, Solutions Architect & Sr. Software Engineer at James and James Fulfilment, talks about their journey to 80ms response SLO with PHP & React.Alex shares how they optimised API performance, specifically highlighting improvements made by altering interactions with Amazon ...
Automation Engine(opens in new tab)
Today we delve into BuildKit and Dagger, focusing on their significance in the development and deployment of containerized applications, as well as Kubernetes integration.BuildKit's Role: Essential for anyone using Docker Build, facilitating efficient, dependency-aware container builds with advanced caching mechanisms. ...
How much CPU & Memory?(opens in new tab)
This episode looks into the observability tool Parca & Polar Signals Cloud with Frederic Branczyk and Thor Hansen. We discuss experiences and discoveries using Parca for detailed system-wide performance analysis, which transcends programming languages.We highlight a significant discovery related to ...
Terminal Trove January 2024 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in January 2024.
Own Your Web – Issue 10: Links Worth Sharing(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, and other insights and ideas that we want to document, preserve, and share. ...
