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How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?
This article looks at how 1000 popular Chrome extensions impact the performance of the browser.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 754 posts.
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Quicker and easier ways to get more light
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Lossy GIF compressor
This is an encoder (based on gifsicle ) which implements lossy LZW compression. It can reduce animgif file sizes by 30%—50% at a cost of some dithering/noise.
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My 2022 self was wrong about meditation, monitors, and sleep
Introduction When I read Richard Hanania’s Reflections on 2022 in which he listed a bunch of major topics he changed his mind about, I realized that I really admired him for doing this. Then, immediately afterwards, I thought “Wait, am I worse than Hanania? The person who made the entire twitter angry at him more…
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Python on Wheels
A quick overview into wheel based Python deployments.
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Code in the Browser with GitHub Classroom
Learn about some new ways students can code in the browser. With online integrated development environments (IDEs), students can get right to work in a web browser, avoiding software conflicts that might happen on their local machines.
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PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its (2021)
Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …
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How I work with Postgres – psql, My PostgreSQL Admin
On at least a weekly basis and not uncommonly multiple times in a single week I get this question: @neilmiddleton I’ve been hunting for a nice PG interface that works within other things. PGAdmin kinda works, except the SQL editor is a piece of shit Sometimes it leans more to, what is the Sequel Pro equivilant for…
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Open Sourcing Tilt Brush
Tilt Brush, Google's virtual reality painting application, has collaborated with amazing creators over the years.
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven't tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up ...
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How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)
Writing a book is a time consuming process, and if you’re going to dedicate a year, or more, of your life to it, it makes sense to pick the best tool for the job. If you’re technically inclined – and if you use Emacs – then the choice is obvious.
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Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better
Oculus Go, like all products, is the result of a series of compromises around cost, schedule, quality, and competence. It is clearly the best standalone VR platform on the market, but anyone …
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Git Source Code Review
Since its release in December 2005, git has taken over the software industry. In combination with GitHub it is now a powerful tool to publish and share code: From big teams ( linux kernel , id Software , Epic Unreal ) to single individual ( Prince of Persia , Another world , Rick Dangerous ), many have adopted it as…
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Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst explores different hierarchal visualizations by visualizing file system or disk space.
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What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016)
What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis De Rossi & Jackson Onward! 2013 We finished up last week talking about the how to find good concepts / abstractions in a software desig…
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Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
By replacing pip with uv in our production images, our build pipeline (and therefore releasing a new version) is a lot faster.
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Don't use Git rebase
You love rebasing, right? Rewriting history might be appealing, but there are good reasons not to.
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What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?
[ Update : this post has been updated with significant new information. Look to the end.]
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Smaller Code, Better Code
I was enjoying some pizza the other day with some buddies that know a bit about my research and understand where I am coming from with regards to my own computing aesthetics. They understand that I have always pushed for the smallest code that I can get, and to simplify
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Encrypting files with passkeys and age
Encrypting files with passkeys, using the WebAuthn prf extension and the TypeScript age implementation.
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How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...
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It’s fine, Rewind: Revert a migration without losing data
Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard
My last post documented my initial exposure to the wild world of custom keyboards and the numerous ways it's possible to improve on the conventional design. As I dug deeper into the topic, I was struck with the simplicity of the underlying concepts. While the Ergodox is a notable and admirable achievement of…
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The Collector’s Fallacy
There’s a tendency in all of us to gather useful stuff and feel good about it. To collect is a reward in itself. As knowledge workers, we’re inclined to look for the next groundbreaking thought, for intellectual stimulation: we pile up promising books and articles, and we store half the internet as bookmarks, just so…
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