So this week I landeda fewpatches thatcompletely removed XUL layout from the Firefox codebase.

This is the first of a series of posts about the Preevy proxy service.

Safari 16.4 rolled out last week, and for us it's been a nightmare. We make the browser-based game creation app Construct. Early versions of Safari 16.4 broke opening projects, previewing projects, and all existing content published with Construct, all in…

This post explores one of my favorite hacks in SerenityOS. I don’t recommend doing this in your codebase, but it has worked for us so far. :^)

Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology.

a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation. - curl/trurl

Whether you’re a beginner in vi or wanting to learn advanced vi skills for whatever goal, grab this vi cheat sheet right now and master vi in no time.

From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. This episode was originally published on February 5th, 2022. Enjoy! Anyone who’s been…

Bob Lee, the Chief Product Officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a fatal stabbing in San Francisco. He was the former CTO of Square.

Forget programs. The most important productivity tool for programming is your mind. And the next best set of software development tools are ones that take care of you.
It isn’t about Git. Or Docker. Or testing frameworks. These are all useful tools. I use…

Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor in 1978. This processor ended up being hugely influential, setting the path for the x86 architec...

Four decades is a long time to be a programmer. I started in 1981 and retired in 2021. During that time, almost everything changed, and I had to change with it. While my situation may be different than starting today, much of what I learned over time can…

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Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a…

I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?

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At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases…

Bruno, first of all, thanks for agreeing to this interview. In 2004, iText was 4 years old, and in widespread use. Can you tell us what factored into the decision to commercialize your library?

iText started as a project that I maintained after hours ...