Writing is a learned skill. No one person is a good or bad writer. 🙂 When a colleague asked me to mentor them on technical writing, I searched for a single technical writing article, guide, book, or tutorial that addressed three key things. Since I couldn’t find one, I decided to create a tutorial o...

Here's a way to config i3 specific to a computer within a single i3 config file.This is a version of this article's solution with a few more basics for a n00b like me.Set a HostnameFirst, we must identify our particular computer. We'll do this by setting a hostname. I'll call my host rexkwando:hostn...

This is how I automated my garage doors without using a BTN interface.

Explore evolution of HTTP protocols HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 advancing web speed, security & efficiency with multiplexing, QUIC, and TLS encryption

Explore evolution of HTTP protocols HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 advancing web speed, security & efficiency with multiplexing, QUIC, and TLS encryption

npm is bursting with useful libraries. But many of them assume they’re running in Node.js, and throw errors elsewhere. Based on his experience developing Neon’s serverless driver, George shows how you can run NPM packages in other places — such as Vercel Edge Functions, or even web browsers — using ...

Find out how you can better harness open banking as a lender

Find out how you can better harness open banking as a lender

Brand-new features, community content, and (more importantly) the date for our next Launch Week.

Here are my reasons to use the function keyword when declaring functions in JS.Using the function keyword in JavaScript has gone out of vogue since the advent of arrow functions (ie () => {}) in es2015. To declare a function with the function keyword, you write:function myFunction() {}And with an ar...

RocksDB Java API Performance Improvements Evolved Binary has been working on several aspects of how the Java API to RocksDB can be improved. Two aspects of this which are of particular importance are performance and the developer experience. We have built some synthetic benchmark code to determine w...

Another boring release, with mostly bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

When building a custom API Gateway authorizer, mysterious 500 errors can happen. This post shows how to enable CloudWatch logging for API Gateway to inspect the logs and debug problems.

Surveys like JetBrains' State of Developer Ecosystem and Stack Overflow's Annual Developer Survey provide invaluable insights into developers' tools, workflows, and pain points. But organizing these large-scale research initiatives takes thoughtful design and coordination. This year, we conducted ou...

This post documents my journey implementing a Homekit integration for my Intelbras AMT8000 alarm system.

Meet Kostiantyn Serediuk, winner of the Hard Worker award.

Usability and aesthetics usually go hand in hand. In fact, there is even what we call the “Aesthetic Usability Effect”: users perceive beautiful interfaces as easier to use and cut them more slack when it comes to minor usability issues. Unfortunately, sometimes usability and aesthetics can be at od...

Table of Contents In the last article we lowered our custom poly dialect to standard MLIR dialects. In this article we’ll continue lowering it to LLVM IR, exporting it out of MLIR to LLVM, and then compiling to x86 machine code. The code for this article is in this pull request, and as usual the com...

The fastest way to build apps with Next.js 14 and Supabase

Bookmarks for November 2023: 13 links - Confusing git terminology; In a git repository, where do your files live?; Working without mocks - Learn Go with tests, and more.

Here's how to mock out process.env in a Jest test.This essentially from this StackOverflow post, reproduced here for my own reference.The ConceptIt turns out that you can set process.env to the value you want, not just read from it. What we'll want to do is save a version of the original process.env...

Here's a way to open files from a git log of file paths.WhyGit log is a great starting point to open relevant files. These might be files related to a feature. Or they might be files that you've recently edited.If you open the git log, it'll list paths to these files for you. Instead of copying and ...

A high-resolution satellite map of the entire world is now available to all free and paying users of MapTiler Cloud.

Some free software projects reject anonymous or pseudonymous contributions, requiring you to author patches using your “real name”. Such projects have a so-called “real name” policy; Linux is one well-known example.1The root motivations behind such policies vary, but in my experience the most often ...