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Web development is fun again
AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,826 posts.
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Firefox Release 89.0
Say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use.
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Go is not an easy language
Go is not an easy programming language. It is simple in many ways: the syntax is simple, most of the semantics are simple. But a language is more than just syntax; it’s about doing useful stuff . And doing useful stuff is not always easy in Go.
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Right to root access
right to repair laws should include provisions requiring manufacturers to unlock a device's bootloader (to provide root access) upon consumer request.
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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on
MVC is a phenomenal idea. You have models, which are nice self-contained bits of state, views which are nice self-contained bits of UI, and controllers which are nice self-contained bits of …
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Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu
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OpenAI releases image generation in the API
Our latest image generation model is now available in the API via ‘gpt-image-1’—enabling developers and businesses to build professional-grade, customizable visuals directly into their own tools and platforms.
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Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
This letter has been sent by the undersigned to EU & US regulators, to urge them to take action on banning surveillance-based ads, as recommended by the NCC.
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Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
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Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
Keeping in touch is easier and more affordable than ever.
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How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
People still tell me that CPUs are boring. That nothing much happens anymore. Let us look at AMD Ryzen 7 processors from 2022 to 2024: the 5800X3D (Zen 3), the 7800X3D (Zen 4) and the 9800X3D (Zen 5). They are comparable 8-core chips with 3D V-Cache. I have written about them before, in How stagnant … Continue reading…
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My seatbelt rule for judgment
One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch the dashboard. How ridiculous! What’s…
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What I wish someone told me about Postgres
I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.
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Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors
Louis Rossmann has created a movement around right to repair. It's not just iPhones. It's everywhere.
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NymphCast: Casual attempt at open alternative to Chromecast
For the past half year or thereabouts I have been working on a little project of mine that I call 'NymphCast' [1]. The initial idea for it o...
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I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
For a project I was working on, some of the research involved listening to thousands of sales calls from well known high-growth B2B SaaS companies.
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SSH Kung Fu
An extended look at SSH features that can serve a variety of purposes for different use cases.
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Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
Java's not even *fun* enough to laugh at. I expect after your sabbatical you would be trolling at Scala or Haskell or Go ! What's next ? Jokes about making GUIs in VB ? Pshh. Seriously though, I can get the attack on privateness and finality. From someone with a strong dynamic tropism, that makes sense. But that good…
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Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode.
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How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame
DOOM pioneered fundamental changes in game design and mechanics back in 1993, it was a world-wide phenomenon which propelled to fame iconic figures …
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I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
How I used my own Rust tool to ship 175 quality pixel fonts.
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Git Tips
Table of Contents: I’ve been using git full time for the past 4 years, and I wanted to share the most practical tips that I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully, it will be useful to somebody out there.
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We are barely halfway done
I’m kind of broken. It has been a very productive day. I have been here since 8 in the morning. We have boxed over 400 boxes of material. There have been about a dozen and a half of volunteer…
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InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
[What follows are my thoughts on some recent research in machine learning privacy. These are my thoughts, and do not represent those of others.]