htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react| htmx.org
At SPLASH 2024 there were a few talks and sessions that felt a bit like lamentations. | Matthew Gaudet
A brief, personal reflection on why I choose to do this thing.| Sean Voisen
In my job I get to speak to lots of people about Rust. Some are just starting out, some have barely ever heard of it, and then some people are running Rust silently in production at a very large c ...| tweedegolf.nl
We try to get rid of the complexity, control it, and seek simplicity. I think framing things that way is misguided. Complexity has to live somewhere. Embrace it| ferd.ca
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland| www.baldurbjarnason.com
Someone asked me via email about my thoughts on the software engineering field, and what I would tell someone new to the industry. (Relatively speaking, I’m also pretty new to the industry! But it’s 5AM, and I ended up going on a long semi-rant. I thought the rant might be interesting to some other people too, so here’s the rant.) --- Interpretations of reality If you look one way, mathematics is just a box of tools. Abstractions you can pull out to solve specific problems when we are f...| linus.coffee
Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. For people interested in building easy to use software, understanding the causes of complexity is critical. Fortunately, I believe there is a straightforward explanation. The most natural implementation of any feature request is additive, attempting to leave all oth...| Blogs on Alex Gaynor
Open Source Freelancer| staltz.com
The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analytics on the heat distribution of chicken in his oven with his newly imported thermometer. We're talking about a culinary madman, capable of anything. The first book he gave me was not remotely related to any technical stack we ran, but wa...| ludic.mataroa.blog
Designing good software is like dating, you don't commit immediately.| tomgamon.com
An informal proposal for dedicated elements for spoiler tags in HTML: use-cases, syntax, semantics, recommended UA behavior, and comparisons with “details”| Seirdy’s Home
Products seem to be made for users, but I think this might be an illusion; they are more like a medium for self-expression. Different expressions, conceived by various minds, undergo a form of natural selection, with the surviving expression being the one that resonates most with users. I mean, the process unfolds like this: you create something not because “I think they might need this,” but because “I find this so fucking interesting.” Then, when others use your product, they feel t...| Luyao Zhang
Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried most of it. It's fi...| world.hey.com
Looking back, and forward| acko.net
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O'Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Now that I'm no longer an employee at Gitpod, I'm finally able to author a blog post freely about something that has been troubling me for quite| Geoffrey Huntley
Boy scout rule is taken as gospel in software engineering, but while good intentioned it actually can be harmful.| blog.6nok.org
My work brings me though a lot of software correctness techniques, things like type theory, test-driven development (TDD), and formal methods. The surrounding communities all have the same problem: they can’t get people using these techniques. They all ask “Don’t people care about correct software?” To which the insiders usually answer “programmers don’t care about correctness, they just care about shoveling out garbage to make money!” I’ve heard this from every single communi...| Hillel Wayne
Last year I got certified as an EMT. As part of the training I shadowed an ambulance for a day and assisted with each run. For each patient we treated, we had to fill out a patient care report. A patient care report. (source) EMTs are just one part in a long chain. If they transport a patient to a hospital, the hospital needs to know everything about the patient and everything that happened since the call.| Hillel Wayne