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Jan 07, 2025 from Coding Horror

Stay Gold, America

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.

Jan 07, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

Mils

Well, thanks to Ben & Ben at Gears & Gasoline I’m now painfully and acutely aware that when someone says “mil” or “mils”, particularly in North America, they’re possibly referring to thousands of a...

Jan 06, 2025 from ~hedy

Blog questions challenge

Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing to do the same. The questions are all meta in nature and I already have a dedica...

Jan 05, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

Observations From India

In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see thin...

Jan 05, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

Grading my 2024 Predictions for Developers

I wasn't bold and nonetheless I didn't do great. Sheesh.

Jan 03, 2025 from Darek Kay

Grab browser links and titles in one click

A bookmarklet to copy browser tab URLs with titles as rich text and Markdown.

Jan 03, 2025 from ~hedy

📚 The Night Circus

The Night Circus is a book I had wanted to read for a long time, as an enjoyer of other “magical circus” stories inspired by it. It ended up giving me mixed feelings, and so it was difficult to wri...

Jan 03, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog

You just can’t be Googling ‘Select’

I’ve been extremely fortunate over the course of my career, and I’ve been able to learn from some truly incredible people working in software. It truly does “take a village,” and some of the best g...

Jan 03, 2025 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

Push-based productivity

Getting told when to get things done Way back in 2021, I wrote about my productivity endeavours, which were—in summary—me writing a list of todos in a notebook. I still carry these around to quickl...

Jan 02, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #29: "Methanotropes", Sign-Language Poetry, and Why Saturn's About To Lose Its Rings

Why hey there, fellow prisoners of the Internet. It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — or, my latest “Linkfest”, in which I pan relentlessly for nuggets in the fractal, murky creeks of cy...

Jan 02, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

“Should PLDI return to in-person Program Committee meetings?” – Survey results

[Note: Since PLDI joined the PACM-PL journal, what was previously called Program Committee is now called Review Committee. In the following, we use the term Program Committee (PC) because it is a b...

Jan 02, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

My 2024 reflections

Hey y’all… I know I haven’t written any new post in a while. My grandma was hospitalised in late October (around one week after my birthday) and passed away in December, so I’ve been very preoccupi...

Jan 02, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

About the Past Year - 2024

Wow, it’s been a quarter of a century since Y2K. We all know that time flies, but it still feels surreal sometimes. Saying that 2024 was a rather uneventful year would probably be too much, but at ...

Jan 02, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Adding new entries to a Supabase postgres table via REST API

I read this blog post from Jordan on how he created a simple feature request form on his iOS app using Supabase’s Swift library. I wanted to try this out on Python to see how easy would be to imple...

Jan 01, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

Science Proceeds One Question at a Time

MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory...

Jan 01, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

2024 Year In Review

2024 was filled with challenges, but also some exciting moments.

Jan 01, 2025 from Ryan Schachte's Blog

Analyzing Strava data with ClickHouse

Simple ClickHouse intro by analyzing GPX activity data

Dec 31, 2024 from Ryan Bagley

2024 Running Review

Late Spring on a nearby mountain trail in Centerville, Utah. In 2024 I ran a total of 2,389 miles, which is an increase of 7% over 2023. I had quite a bit more elevation gain this year at 169,078 f...

Dec 31, 2024 from ~hedy

Default Apps 2024

I don’t have a dedicated /uses page; only a little table on my about page that lists the development-related essentials. Since today is the last day of 2024, I decided to jump on the “default apps”...

Dec 31, 2024 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

A bad year for open source databases

Although the definitions of Open Source are related to specific software characteristics (i.e., the license), the reality is much more complex. Open-source is way more related to a social contract ...