The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages
Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process
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Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction – The Stone and the S
Large language models are valuable research assistants, especially when they refuse to follow instructions.
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on: 2023-06-23
How to Do the Thing You've Been Avoiding
What if there's no good reason to avoid it?
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on: 2023-06-22
Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquent
I always thought Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding were only able to be used with Eloquent models. Turns out I was wrong
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on: 2023-06-18
Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture
Explore modern project architecture, theming, responsive layouts, and component design. Learn to improve code organization, dig into layout techniques, and review real-world, context-aware components that use cutting-edge CSS techniques.
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The modern way of serving images
Technical in-depth guide for the & srcset and sizes attributes to create responsive & performant images.
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Native JSON Output From GPT-4 - by Simon Farshid
When integrating LLMs in your products, you often want to generate structured data, like JSONs. With the help of function calling (released June 13th 2023), this process has become much simpler! In this post I will explore the new API. Thanks for reading Simon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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Finish your projects
Starting a project can be full of excitement, hope, and blissful productivity. Finishing that last ten percent, however, can feel like too much. Here’s how to get past that and actually finish.
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RADIO LIBERE TUTTI - La storia dell’emittenza radiofonica piacentina on Vim
Piacenza, così come tante altre città di provincia, assiste a una vera e propria fioritura di piccole emittenti radiofoniche libere nate dalla creatività…
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on: 2023-06-12
Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me
When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.
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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
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JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP)
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Clever Code Considered Harmful • Josh W. Comeau
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we should strive to write simple, accessible code, using the dumb old primitives that everyone knows.
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The UX Research Reckoning is Here - One Big Thought - Medium
UX Research, layoffs, research needs to change its focus to stay relevant
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New Taschen book ‘The Computer’ is a monumental survey
‘The Computer’ from Taschen is a richly illustrated history of society’s ever-evolving relationship with the silicon chip
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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul | Sim O.N.E. (Observati
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
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300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time
How two simple steps improved the responsiveness of Wikipedia's mobile site
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Build Your Own Service Container in PHP - Minimal Container - Ryan Chandler
Exploring software development with PHP, JavaScript, Rust, and beyond.
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Everything You Want To Know About Media Queries and Responsive Design | Insights from the Kablamo Team.
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
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About Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Learn more about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - a book gifting organization that sends over one million free books to children each month.
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bws_book.pdf
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Repositories and their true purpose - Muhammed Sarı
What is the repository pattern? What is it good for? Why'd we use it if we're never going to change the RDBMS? Would it be considered over-engineering if we did use one? Let's find out.
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on: 2023-05-25
Retro Computer Museum
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Conditional CSS with :has and :nth-last-child
A modern look at how to combine CSS :has, :nth-last-child, and style queries to create dynamic components.
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Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s
A deep dive on the early days of creative computing coming to life. Punch cards, plotters, light pens and lots more.
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on: 2023-05-16
dsdanielpark/amazing-bard-prompts: This repo includes Google Bard prompt curation to use Bard better.
This repo includes Google Bard prompt curation to use Bard better. - dsdanielpark/amazing-bard-prompts
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on: 2023-05-15
Conquering Legacy Code: Embrace the Strangler Fig Pattern for Seamless Soft
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Migrating an Existing Application to Symfony (Symfony Docs)
When you have an existing application that was not built with Symfony, you might want to move over parts of that application without rewriting the existing logic completely. For those cases there is a…
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Conquering Legacy Code: Embrace the Strangler Fig Pattern for Seamless Software Migration
In the software development world, legacy code is inevitable. As technology evolves and user needs change, 99% of software engineers will encounter legacy code in their careers. Many developers, however, feel overwhelmed when faced with the task of updating or migrating a legacy system. Fear not, for we have a solution: the Strangler Fig pattern.
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Avoiding empty() in PHP - Andreas Möller
The language construct empty() appears rather versatile. Do you really have a scenario where using it makes sense?
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Story: Redis and its creator antirez
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on: 2023-05-10
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years
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Strategies to make functions pure
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Five Books - The Best Books Recommended by Experts
If you're looking for the best books on any topic, Five Books has the world's largest collection of expert book recommendations.
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Rector diff speeding
After bringing a performance boost to PHPStan in Speedzember, I had a closer look at Rector.
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Entertainment
We create and provide access to world-class entertainment through Amazon Originals, Prime Video, Audible, Amazon Games, Twitch, Amazon Music, Prime Gaming, and more. Amazon’s digital entertainment products enable customers to access the latest apps and games, stream or download movies, TV shows,…
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Troy Hunt: Divorce
I wish I'd read this blog post years ago.
I don't have any expertise whatsoever to be guiding others through this process so please don't look at this as a "how to". But what I do have is an audience, and I've found that each time I've opened up about the more personal aspects of my life and where I've struggled (such as my post a few years ago on dealing with stress), I've had a huge amount of feedback from people that have been helped by it.
Just read this. Hugely helpful to me going through
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News Minimalist: Only Significant News. All Signal, No Noise
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Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library
The visual technique library for visual technique lovers. Enjoy. Learn. Don't gatekeep.
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on: 2023-05-03
Brutalist Web Design
Guidelines for web design that adhere to the tenets and ethos of Brutalism
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on: 2023-05-02
The key to becoming extraordinary
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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on: 2023-05-02
Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
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on: 2023-05-01
Deploy web apps anywhere
From bare metal to cloud VMs using Docker, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime.
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on: 2023-04-29
Giornata della ristorazione, il galateo del buon cliente secondo il camerie
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on: 2023-04-28
Meet the people using Notion to plan their whole lives | MIT Technology Rev
The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.
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Payments 101 for a Developer · juspay/hyperswitch Wiki · GitHub
An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable - juspay/hyperswitch
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on: 2023-04-27
3Blue1Brown
Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.
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on: 2023-04-27
Deploy with zero-downtime | Deploy your Laravel app from scratch | Loris
Now that we have Deployer installed and configured, let’s hit the deploy button and ship our application to our server.
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager
the trough of zero dopamine • managing the wrong amount • procrastinating on hard questions • indefinitely deferring maintenance • angsting instead of asking
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Consent management made easy and clear with Cloudflare Zaraz
Cloudflare Zaraz now can also help you with gathering and managing consent. With this new tool, you can easily collect user’s consent preferences on your website, using a consent modal, and apply your consent policy on third-party tools you load via Cloudflare Zaraz.
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on: 2023-04-23
Stretch 15
A free 15 min daily stretch routine to help desk workers avoid aches and pains
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on: 2023-04-20
Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern
There are strategies for reducing the size and responsibilities of large objects. Here’s one that worked for us at Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform supporting over 1M merchants across the globe.
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Strangler Pattern in practice | Accesto Blog
This week I finally hit the delete button. I've been waiting for this moment for the last 3 years. Finally, I erased the legacy part of the codebase I was working on! Using a strangler pattern, we got to the point where the legacy SaaS application was completely replaced with a new shiny web application that everyone wants to work on and develop. But let’s start from the beginning.
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on: 2023-04-20
90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck
...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
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Staying Organized | Tighten
Andrew Morgan (a Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all things organization - why it's important for devs (and all of us, really) to stay organized, how he does it, and a lot...
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Legacy to Laravel: How to Modernize an Aging PHP Application | Tighten
Many of our clients have legacy PHP apps and want to move to Laravel. We’re often asked "should we rewrite or refactor?" While full rewrites are appealing, they’re also risky. Here’s our approach to gradually refactoring legacy code that lets you start using Laravel right away.
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AI Playground | Compare top AI models side-by-side
Chat and compare OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Llama, Mistral, and more.
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on: 2023-04-19
An example of LLM prompting for programming
Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.
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on: 2023-04-18
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. 2-color; 75 illustrations
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You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard | Here & Now
Forming new friendships as an adult can seem like an impossible feat. Psychologist Marisa G. Franco shares her top tips for making genuine connections.
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on: 2023-04-18
PokeFit
PokeFit is a service that allows you to find the Pokémon with the same height and weight as you✨
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The 46 Best Pens for 2025: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens | JetPens
We draw on years of testing to crown the best beginner fountain pen, best gel pen, best pen for note-taking, and more. Each recommendation includes links to related guides so that you can evaluate the competition for yourself.
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on: 2023-04-12
Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
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50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
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on: 2023-04-11
Il Letterista - Insegne Dipinte a Mano
Il Letterista esegue insegne dipinte a mano, scritte vintage in oro zecchino e murales su vetrine, pareti interne ed esterne. Bottega fondata a Torino nel 2017
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Introducing PHP-CS-Fixer into legacy projects - Andreas Möller
If you are working on a legacy PHP project, what could be a strategy for introducing PHP-CS-Fixer that reduces risk and invites other developers to collaborate?
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Dyson Hair Dryer Becomes Jet Engine | Hackaday
While Dyson makes some good products, they aren’t known for being economical. Case in point: [Integza] spent $500 on a hair dryer. While he does have a fine head of hair, we suspected he wasn…
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Here’s How Two New Orleans Teenagers Found a New Proof of the Pythagorean T
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on: 2023-04-09
Tatjana van Vark - The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum
Building scientific instruments from the past, along with other technical projects.
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on: 2023-04-08
How Microsoft sprinted to integrate OpenAI's GPT-4 into '365' suite
Building an AI assistant into every Microsoft app—from Outlook to Word to Teams—is a big job, but one the tech giant wanted to do quickly.
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on: 2023-04-06
Exploring Laravel’s Job Queue: Advanced Features for Efficient and Scalable
As web applications become increasingly complex and data-intensive, it’s becoming more and more important to offload time-consuming tasks to background processes. One popular way of doing this in…
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on: 2023-04-03
How to read MySQL EXPLAINs — PlanetScale
Learn how to read the output in MySQL EXPLAIN plans so you can utilize them to improve query performance.
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25 PERFECT AI Prompts for PHP Developers | by Brady Lewis | Mar, 2023 | Med
With prompts ranging from PHP frameworks to database integration, these prompts offer a wealth of actionable insights and guidance to help you optimize your development efforts and deliver…
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Gut - Ease your journey with Git
Gut is a user-friendly Git CLI for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux. With intuitive commands and streamlined workflows, Gut simplifies the process of using Git's complex system, allowing you to focus on your code.
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on: 2023-03-30
Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
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on: 2023-03-29
Testing without mocking frameworks.
Over the years, my coding practices have changed a lot. From hacking away until
it works to TDD/BDD/DDD and everything in between. One of the biggest changes in
my developer career has been when, why, and how I test my code. In particular,
my view on mocking frameworks has changed a lot. A couple of years ago I was
convinced I could not live without them, now I wish I could do just that.
I've come to the point where I generally advise against the use of mocking
frameworks. After a couple intera
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on: 2023-03-28
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
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on: 2023-03-26
Modelling Busines Processes in Laravel - Laravel News
As developers, we often map business processes to digital processes, from sending an email to something quite complex. Let's look at how we can clean this up.
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on: 2023-03-25
Introducing Bladestan - PHPStan analysis of Blade templates
This Tuesday, I was a guest in [2nd podcast of PHP Portugal](https://twitter.com/VotrubaT/status/1639241043248836610) folks. It was fun as always, and apart from GPT questions, I got asked about the Laravel open-source packages like [Punchcard](https://github.com/tomasVotruba/punchcard).
I promised to put the 2nd package this week, so here it is.
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Everything You Can Test In Your Laravel Application
A common challenge in testing is not only HOW to test something, but WHAT you can test. That's why I have made a list of all the things I like to test in my applications.
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on: 2023-03-24
Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring's Blog
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Role And Permission In Laravel 10 using Spatie: The Definitive Guide (2023)
Roles and permissions can make or break your web application. If you’re not careful, your users might end up running amok, wreaking havoc on your carefully crafted code. Roles and permissions are…
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on: 2023-03-21
MySQL for Developers — PlanetScale
This free MySQL course covers everything you need to know to become an expert in MySQL. The course is geared toward application developers, and offers practical guidance to implement schema, indexes, query improvement, and more.
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on: 2023-03-21
MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse
Barry Duncan, a staff member at the MIT Press Bookstore, boasts a unique talent: writing palindromes, or prose that reads the same forward and backward.
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on: 2023-03-21
Laying Out a Print Book With CSS
In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.
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Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI
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on: 2023-03-20
Lessons from the past 12 months
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I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked – Emmanu
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on: 2023-03-17
CPU usage
As one of the most widely used scripting languages for web development, PHP is known for its flexibility and ease of use. However, with complex
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on: 2023-03-17
Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
No one fights harder for your rights
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