20 random bookmarks

2025-10-24

137.

How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager

justoffbyone.com

2025-07-31

127.

A dive into open chat protocols

wiki.alopex.li/ADiveIntoOpenChat

2025-07-03

125.

Beamer Viewer

beamerviewer.euxane.eu

This web app displays notes and slides in separate windows,
keeping both synchronised.
It accepts simple, double-width, or double-height PDF presentations:

2025-06-17

119.

Debugging tricks for IntelliJ

andreabergia.com/blog/2025/06/debugging-tricks-for-intellij

I have been using IntelliJ Idea at work for a decade or so by now, and it’s been a reliable companion. JetBrains IDEs have a bit of a reputation for being slow, but their feature set is incredible: powerful refactoring tools, a great VCS UI (though I like magit even more!), a huge number of supported frameworks, integration with just about any testing library for any language, code coverage tools, powerful debuggers, etc.

2025-05-30

115.

The PGP Problem

www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem

Why do people keep telling me to use PGP? The answer is that they shouldn’t be telling you that, because PGP is bad and needs to go away.

2025-02-04

100.

Running a Debian Sid on Ubuntu

blogops.mixinet.net/posts/incus

2024-11-20

88.

On "Safe" C++

izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx

2024-10-10

82.

'Do' More With 'Run'

maxgreenwald.me/blog/do-more-with-run

I recently wrote about Async Pool, one of my favorite JavaScript / TypeScript helpers, and today I want to share an even simpler yet extremely useful utility

2024-09-18

76.

Typescript is surprisingly ok for compilers

matklad.github.io/2023/08/17/typescript-is-surprisingly-ok-for-compilers.html

2024-09-16

73.

Technical Writing One introduction

developers.google.com/tech-writing/one

2024-08-18

68.

Permacomputing

permacomputing.net

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

2024-07-03

59.

Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files

samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files

2024-06-27

56.

plainweb

www.plainweb.dev

plainweb is a framework using HTMX, SQLite and TypeScript for less complexity and more joy.

2024-06-18

40.

Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide

github.com/nicanorflavier/spf-dkim-dmarc-simplified

2024-06-14

34.

Nix as a WebAssembly build tool

determinate.systems/posts/nix-wasm
33.

A useful shell prompt

blog.meain.io/2022/my-shell-prompt

Featureful zsh prompt.

2024-06-13

19.

A simple, arena-backed, generic dynamic array for C

nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/05

2024-06-12

12.

I really like the RP2040

dgroshev.com/blog/rp2040

2024-06-11

11.

Optimizing Font Files for the Modern Web

documentation.platformos.com/best-practices/performance/optimizing-font-files
6.

Go evolves in the wrong direction

valyala.medium.com/go-evolves-in-the-wrong-direction-7dfda8a1a620

Go programming language is known to be easy to use. Thanks to its well-thought syntax, features and tooling, Go allows writing easy-to-read…

Hard disagree on this one, but still interesting.