Ooh if you’re interested in the algorithm being put to use here, I wrote an interactive post about them! They’re really cool, and this is a neat use case for them.
samwho.dev/bloom-filters
Seeing over and over #DesignSystems teams finally starting to feel good with adoption in design, but dev seriously falling behind. There's all sorts of options to help remedy it, however I can't help but think that hiring a shit hot hybrid designer/developer or "Design Engineer" is the real solution
Every Black Friday Shopify shows how "boring" technology can be scaled just fine.
This year they did 45M queries/sec with MySQL and somewhere around 1.3M request/sec on Rails.
If a tech company has enough business to need to scale: it can scale with whatever boring tech it uses
Did another pass over yesterday's photos with b&w in mind. This improved some images but not others. For example, the photo of the mountain through the trees doesn’t really change that much. But in the photo of the geothermally active field, the fence becomes a more distinctive visual feature
Believe in yourself and create cool stuff—always! 💜
If you've been following my journey, you know @coolify.io has faced its share of skepticism on social media. The biggest blow came from someone I admired, who said:
"Why bother? With Heroku and Vercel around, this is a waste of time."
The framework doesn’t “make links through JavaScript”. It renders whatever HTML the developer tells it to. If the dev is using event handlers instead of native links, the dev’s own fault
I’d go further and say there’s a contingent that doesn’t really understand the grain of the web at all. I think there’s a chunk of the industry that came in several years ago from more conventional software backgrounds and never really gained that understanding
Another popular blog post that gets a lot of traffic is this one. If you've seen me streaming, you may have seen me use the alias "dam" in my terminal. Here's what it does!
whitep4nth3r.com/blog/delete-...
When someone gives you the link to their personal/small business site, do you instantly go and inspect it in the browser? Or am I a special breed of dork?
Pip liked a post by Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror)
In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️
Trying to play CoD6. The usability of “how do I actually get into the campaign mode” is incredibly complicated - even when I anticipated it would be an issue and tried to install it a week in advance.
… I’ve got to the stage of sticking a physical post-it on my TV to measure progress…
Call me old-fashioned, but I truly believe soup is meant to be made in a cauldron over an open fire under a full moon with the sound of wolves in the distance.