Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,824 posts.
CSS Grid is an incredibly powerful tool for building layouts on the web, but like all powerful tools, there's a significant learning curve. In this tutorial, we'll build a mental model for how CSS Grid works and how we can use it effectively. I'll share the biggest 💡 lightbulb moments I've had in my own learning…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Why every database will become a vector database, sooner or later
It is difficult to write software which reliably and safely manages processes on Unix; this is because of flaws in the API. I know of no Unix system which has solved these problems, but in this article I'll be specifically talking about the Linux process API.
I've been using SQLite in several production projects for six months, and I've encountered some surprising aspects.
An not-for-profit roundup of affordable PCB manufacturers. Originally published in 2023 and last updated January 2026.
The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
a personal blog
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
I like Thunderbolt a lot. Mostly because USB's land of optional features is a mess which makes choosing a cable/peripheral difficult. With thunderbolt you have a single number to get right. And then you are supposed to be golden. However the idyll with Intel's interface took a hit when I tried to make sense of Apple's…
Why some report macOS updates as being more than 1 GB smaller than the figures given here. Don’t believe the size given by softwareupdate.
Mac's Tech Blog
“🔄 Update: after posting this on HN, some commenters provided Stable Diffusion and Midjourney results as well which are now included.” In the recent Photoshop Betas, users are now able...
An early look at CSS state queries.
A talk by Dave Gauer , 2023. Made with minslides , which I made for this talk . Use the J and K keys to go forward and backward. You can also just scroll down like a regular web page. Toggle notes/annotations with the N key.
This is a story consisting of several little building blocks and they occurred spread out in time and in different places. It is a story that shows with clarity how our current system with CVE Ids and lots of power given to NVD is a completely broken system. CVE-2020-19909 On August 25 2023, we got … Continue reading…
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
This article introduces the algorithm to draw non-layered trees in linear time and re-layout partially when some nodes change in O(d) time, where d is the maximum depth of the changed node.
When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?
Low-quality literatures mean meta-analyses are frequently worse than single studies
Warning: This post might give vulnerable people new sensory sensitivities
Spoiler alert: many of the good projects didn’t survive
There’s now an open letter arguing that the world should impose a six-month moratorium on the further scaling of AI models such as GPT, by government fiat if necessary, to give AI safety and …
(update 26-Aug-2020: the MSVC team has recently added C11language support to their roadmap, hooray!)
Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or unique, neither was the text what I'd consider my best writing. It was, honestly, mostly a way to blow off steam. It seems I struck a nerve, though, because it's proven to be one of the most…
