Jan 08, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog Blog Questions Challenge I saw a couple of posts about a “blog questions challenge” pop up in my feed reader this week (written by Leilukin, Hedy, or Luke, for example) and decided to participate. It’s a collection of inte...
Jan 08, 2025 from Michael Lynch if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
Dec 30, 2024 from Paul's Weblog Why Tabs Are Better Than Spaces Right, now that I actually have your attention. The more appropriate title of this post would be: Free (1) Month Gift Subscriptions to the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter Since I picked up the Black ...
Dec 29, 2024 from Ryan Bagley How to Clean Up Image Filenames with F2 Archiving your personal collection of family images can quickly become a mess without some sort of organizational approach. I think the first and most important aspect of any organization measures ...
