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A simple RGB color guessing game.

This video is more than 10 years old, but I hadn’t seen it before: a version of Bonnie Tyler’s music video for Total Eclipse of the Heart where the lyrics describe what we literally see. Pan the room Random use of candles, empty bottles, an

Cutting and polishing a morganite stone into a 294 caret gem. It looks *amazing* when he’s done — skip to the 33:35 mark to see it sparkle in the outdoor light.

I was considering using Substack, but I was turned away by the amount of features outside of my interests. Initially I thought it's a platform that allows subscribing to websites, but it's heading in the direction of becoming just another social media platform.

Even pros push their bikes from time to time!

Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

Seeing KMs on signs in America must feel really weird. It turns out to be part of an old pilot program aimed at bringing metric units to USA…

> Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better. 🙈 Great advice, need to put that in practice!

As always, Michał shares his leadership tips with addition to NASA content. And I finally know why Michał uses so many astronaut references on his site!

Worth taking a look. I always google for solution when I approach that and as authors pointed out - there's a lot of outdated stuff out there and it's better do things the smart way.

Wow! A lot of interesting info about the Japanese craft... "Polishing a sword might take even a month"

Ana's personal blog

Short story on how one Microsoft Excel spreadsheet changed my life. Kinda.

Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there's a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure.

Urodził się w 1924 roku. Miał 9 lat gdy Hitler przejmował władzę. Na wojnę poszedł jako szesnastolatek. Jako dziecko spędzałem z nim dużo...

And what can you do about it

editGPT is a free browser extension that allows you to proofread, edit, and track changes to your content in chatGPT

Just 3 steps for better communication. Here is my recipe for business writing that has helped me communicate with my teams over the years.

The Bored Horse, written by Thord D. Hedengren, explores the intersection between technology and culture, with all that entails.

Some notes on how to style RSS and Atom feeds with XSLT stylesheets

No not that web. The real web.

Prosimy nie regulować odbiorników! TO wciąż ten sam blog, ale w zupełnie w nowej odsłonie, na nowym silniku i na nowych zasadach.

This year is the first time I've participated in Advent of Code, and it's caused me some problems and highlighted some issues I need to address. Content warning for discussions of my mental health. My Problem I was planning to explore some of this in my EndOfYearPost™️, but now's as good a time as …

I like to automate common workflows when I can, particularly for web projects. As an example, I may have different Docker Compose setups for development versus production, and having to remember to add the -f {compose file name} argument can be tedious and error prone. Being a long-time Linux user, …

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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

We live in a world of comparison. We scroll through social feeds coveting other people’s highlights. We question our lives. Why don’t I have that?

Or how I went through 3 burnouts. And what help

Intimacy is the best word I can find to describe the feeling I have when I see a letter from my friend. Intimacy that isn’t present in social media which are public by definition. Intimacy that I cannot find in instant messaging apps. This magical part of slow correspondence is something I miss …

This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web…

Aplikacja do śledzenia sportów i przygód, która chroni Twoją prywatność i daje Ci kontrolę nad swoimi danymi. Brzmi jak żart, prawda? Otóż istnieje taka aplikacja: OpenTracks OpenTracks OpenTracks to aplikacja do śledzenia aktywności sportowych i na świeżym powietrzu, która w pełni szanuje …

In this edition, we lean in to the power of what CSS gives us for free — relative units — to make a complex-looking build really straightforward.

An innovative superfamily of fonts for code

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Just wanted to lay out a thought that’s been bouncing around my head now for a while. As I left school and confronted the pressures and ...

My response to a fairly common compliment. Because you see, it's complicated.

Why side projects are essential for creatives—and employers should embrace them

Five lesser-known benefits of thinking out loud

The key components of trust formation when developers are adopting tools.

Czy kiedykolwiek zdarzyło ci się, że jadąc rowerem musiałeś się ciągle oglądać za siebie, aby sprawdzić, czy nie zbliża się jakiś samochód? Czy nie czułeś się niespokojny i niepewny na drodze? Jeśli tak, to mam dla ciebie dobrą wiadomość. Istnieje urządzenie, które może zwiększyć twoje …

Ever find yourself drowning in a sea of negativity, wondering how you can escape the relentless tidal wave of self-doubt and judgment? Well, you're not alone. We all suffer from negative thoughts, and it's about time we learned how to deal with them effectively. In this comprehensive guide, we'll …

After bringing you Blueprints to build your own cabin in the wild, and your own Garage, Den Outdoors have now introduced package plans for the Backyard Office, small, ultra-adaptable spaces for sleep, work, play, and everything in between. Crafted to offer focus and tranquility, these offices serve …

Paper is a nightmare. Environmental issues aside, there's no excuse for it in the 21st century.

There's this weird fantasy we all share of not giving a flying fuck about what people think. We all wish we could be impervious to others' opinions, like Superman deflecting bullets. But instead of bullets, we're out here trying to deflect the fucks we wish we didn't give. We imagine a perfect …

I started writing on my blog some years ago, and since then I’ve had a lot of reasons to stop writing. Here’s a list of why nobody cares about your blog

A new DevEx approach to developer experience looks to answer: What should leaders measure and focus on to improve developer productivity?

Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.

Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.

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A unique multiplayer game built on a free Web API. The best sandbox platform to learn a new skill or apply your knowledge in a fun and meaningful way. Use any programming language with our RESTful API to control the most powerful fleet in universe.

Much to the chagrin of my partner, I’m an obsessive creative tinkerer. Not in the sense that I creatively tinker with technology, but I constantly tinker with other types of creativity.

Our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long-term. We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is, the news doesn’t make us informed – quite the opposite. The more news we consume, the more misinformed we become.

Oh this is so nerdy and great: Veritasium introduces us to Micromouse, a maze-solving competition in which robotic mice compete

For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information William Playfair, 1801, Statistical map showing the extent, population and income of the principal nations of Europe.

One morning in January 2023, 'Clerks' director Kevin Smith awoke in terror, convinced he was losing his mind. The next day, he checked into Arizona's Sierra Tucson Treatment Center, where he spent a month in intensive therapy and learned how childhood sexual abuse and bodyshaming over his weight by

Post # 64 - For me, the last few weeks leading to the launch of a program are the most terrifying. For Technical Program Managers, this is where we must shine. Read on to learn how.

Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly, it certainly wasn’t news. They were just four people in a small office in Florida. They gleefully made stuff up every week.

Software engineers are, if not unique, then darn near unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives; this however can come at a steep cost over time for people who constantly flit back and forth between different tools without investing the time to learn …

The best printer to buy is the one that works without you needing to think about it or subscribe to some nonsense ink refill thing. For most people, that’s the Brother HL-L2305W or something like the MFC-L2750DW that adds a scanner.

In scaling digital platforms, maintaining design consistency becomes a challenge. To uphold visual coherence, you might want to consider building a design system from scratch. 

Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture

Learning about roles you work with can provide a meaningful competitive advantage in the modern tech world

Here is a basic test to know if you’ve picked the right goals for your team. Start with a simple question — Can you explain your goals to your boss and their peers in simple terms? If yes, you may be heading in the right direction, but keep going. Then ask if your boss can explain and sell at least …

When I joined Shopify last year, I knew its engineering culture was top class. What I didn’t know was the company’s documentation culture was even more developed than I previously experienced.

The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company.

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My highlighted a number of sites that are taking a new approach to the way we publish personal knowledge on the web. They're not following the conventions of the "personal blog," as we've come to know it.

You might have noticed I’ve spent more time on Twitter recently. I was chatting to a new client for my agency recently and — as I always do — I asked where they found us. They said their team…

In large organizations, culture is key. The values and habits of an organization, and what it rewards and punishes, are the background radiation driving towards discrete outcomes in a world of infinite possibility.

The conclusion of my blog posts on the LastPass breach and on Bitwarden’s design flaws is invariably: a strong master password is important. This is especially the case if you are a target somebody would throw considerable resources at.

Na 16km przed metą Strade Bianche Donne doszło do bardzo kuriozalnej sytuacji. Między jadącą na czele Kristen Faulkner a goniącą ją Demi Vollering… znalazł się spłoszony koń, który chwilę później upadł na zakręcie. Są takie tematy, o których ciężko coś napisać.

Sixteen years ago to the day, I started RailsCasts, a screencast series teaching web development using Ruby on Rails. It began with free weekly episodes and eventually grew to make over $1M a year, but it wasn't sustainable. This is the first of a th...

20K Likes, 171 Comments - BOLD (@boldberlin) on Instagram: "Fashion doesn’t know age or gender! ❤️ Special thanks to @whoisbou and @_____kingd for sha..."

Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust.

If you’re trying to make pizzas that look like this baby, then you’re in the right place. Everyone has their own personal take on what an ideal pizza should be – and that’s what makes pizza so great.

There is a very nice JavaScript library available that makes it easy to add a Share to Mastodon link to your website or blog. It is also on GitHub if that is how you roll. The library gives you a significant amount of flexibility to make the button display in a way that works with your site design.

There’s no public commons on the web. It’s a race to the bottom, and the bottom is gross. You want me to log in to read? I think I simply will not read.

Midjourney to sztuczna inteligencja do generowania grafik. Skoro w jej czwartej wersji tak bardzo ulepszono postacie, a szczególnie twarze, to postanowiłem napisać artykuł skupiający się na fotorealistycznie wyglądających osobach i generalnie na fotorealiźmie w Midjourney. Natomiast jak wycisnąć …

You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time. Pure black looks unnatural on a screen, and pure white is too bright. Use close-to-black and close-to-white instead.

Recently someone asked me what my principles are for DevEx. Over the past 15 years shipping products for Heroku, GitHub, and now Vercel, I've learned a lot about what developers need to succeed.

For the last handful of years I’ve been too busy to do a lot of things. Too busy to launch new products on my free time, too busy to go on trips for fun, and too busy to spend time with family and friends.

A teacher friend of mine told me that this year students were different. If she asked to see a hall pass from a freshman, they’d give her the finger. They swore at her and were generally rude. The behavior was so out of line that seniors would step in and tell them not to talk to her like that.

Magic can be dangerous. Sometimes when folks ask me for advice at work, I write them very long emails to answer their question. Sometimes, those emails are generally interesting and not work-specific, so I share them here.

This article is part of a series on remote working. Consider this: what’s one of the most impactful skills that you can improve as an engineer? Is it your programming? Maybe it’s your debugging? I’d like to make the case that it’s your communication.

A recent paper by researchers at GitHub, University of Victoria, and Microsoft delves into developer productivity to propose a new approach to defining, measuring and predicting it.

DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! I’ve been a manager for many years at companies of different scale.

Without goals, no one will do anything! There's no accountability on the team. People don't take their commitments seriously. They give me silly excuses. Whenever I turn around, they are chatting on Slack or on Reddit. I'm not sure what they do all day. It feels like we are going in circles.

Maybe it’s a piece of code that we’ve shepherded for many years, or maybe it’s a program or project that has special importance. And, while many times we will have confidence in the person to whom we are delegating, it may still feel uncomfortable letting go.

Life is full of complex decisions: capital purchases, such as a car or a house, planning a vacation, choosing a new job, picking a product strategy, prioritizing roadmaps, hiring someone.

The person who tells the most compelling story wins. Not the best idea. Just the story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads. Something can be factually true but contextually nonsense.

Here are the 50 ideas that changed my life. These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity.

This article is by Lenny Rachitsky, a former product lead and head of consumer supply growth at Airbnb, and Nels Gilbreth, former Head of Global Revenue Strategy at Eventbrite. It's almost the end of Q3, which means annual (and quarterly) planning is just around the corner.

You should use punctuation in Slack. You should also use complete sentences and proper grammar. You should expand acronyms[1] and — when communicating emotion — even mix in some emoji for effect. You should do that not just in Slack, but in all of your professional communication.

I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on.