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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
The story of how a couple of failed SaaS ideas and a bunch of ugly Less stylesheets turned into my life's work.
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Pinboard Turns Seven
Heh, don't worry, that's just the whiskey talking. Pinboard is seven years old today!
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Fraudulent Advertising on Facebook
This story starts with Sidney Crosby. A professional hockey player and Canadian icon. I can neither confirm nor deny that I welled up like…
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DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
Today, DoorDash announced a new partnership with Waymo to launch an autonomous delivery service in Metro Phoenix and introduce a limited-time $10 Waymo promotion for DashPass members in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
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An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
Dear PSF, We, organisers in the pan-African Python community, would like to raise some concerns and frustrations that have been brought to a...
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New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
The new 25% tariffs announced by the USTR , set to go into effect on July 6th, are decidedly anti-Maker and ironically pro-offshoring. I’ve examined the tariff lists ( List 1 and List 2 ), and it taxes the import of basic components, tools and sub-assemblies, while giving fully assembled goods a free pass. The USTR’s…
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Why I did not go to jail (2014)
A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be like. Here’s a piece that I wrote for the book that did not make the cut. I still think it’s a pretty good story and gives you a flavor. I just tell the truth so...
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A nation of slaves
Back to: April Fools Day is Cancelled this Year. | Forward to: Yet another bad idea
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If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
New disclosures released yesterday show Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other firms requesting foreign worker H-1B visas this year.
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OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot
GPT4, the start of The Great Implementation, a move from Generative to Productive AI, OpenAI's safety & growth strategies, and the future of work.
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Why Mozilla Matters
[This is an extended essay on the news out of Norway yesterday. See the closing for encouragement toward Opera and its fans, whatever the open source projects they choose to join, from me on behalf of Mozilla. /be]
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Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing
The beautiful, lightning-fast and fully-native issue tracker that you will want to use. Effortless connectivity direct to your existing JIRA, GitHub or Manuscript server. You'll get more stuff done and your team will love that you now actually update your issues instead of leaving them hanging.
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How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer
Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
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Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
As announced previously, Factorio is now available for Nintendo Switch. You can find it on the Nintendo eShop in your region. I hope you will enjoy it. Remember that if you are not sure, you can try the demo. I recommend playing through the tutorial campaign even if you are a veteran player, as it gradually teaches…
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Ask a Repair Shop
This is the story of how you’re buying your enterprise software the wrong way. Probably your appliances, too. This is an excerpt from my guide, “Enterprise Software Confidential.” This post is also available in Chinese thanks to Xu Zhi. Some years ago, I had a broken GE washer. Pretty sure I knew the culprit, but if…
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)
Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to bui...
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Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
[updated April, 2022] So you wanna start a side business while holding down a full-time job. Kool. Dang smart move – that’s the same route I took – ten years ago now. Self-funded, no VC to appease, no angel investor to update. Just you, and your sandbox of ambition. Hmm, but where to start? Which ... Read more
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New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
Alston & Bird’s Dan Felz and Peter Swire look at the recent Wiesbaden Administrative Cou
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