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在过去的15年里，算法一直在筛选用户所能获取的信息。开放、平等的讨论空间越来越为公众所关注。这样的讨论空间强调信息接收方受到各方消息的平等性，也强调信息发出方被看到的公平性。这是一个有可能的趋势吗？

Tailscale re-engineered dark mode for its admin console. Learn key UI challenges, Tailwind strategies, and DevOps solutions.

A blog about CSS, front-end development, the web, and beyond.

Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especially since our governments are carrying out a Total Migration to Microsoft.
This is the English version of this Dutch piece.
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I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most…

Bad service in the subway? Our offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next

The library for web and native user interfaces

Note: This got posted on HN and got some attention.

This post is not advice, it's what's working for me.

It's easy to pick up bad habits and hard to c...

BM25 is a widely used algorithm for full text search. I wanted to understand how it works, so here is my attempt at understanding by re-explaining.

Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it.
Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use…

Alright, so I maintain a JavaScript ORM called Lucid. Lucid is built on top of knex, which isn't type-safe, and hence, Lucid isn't type-safe either. My gut feeling is that utilizing SQL to ...

Over the past decade, my work has centred on partnering with teams to build ambitious products for the web across both desktop and mobile. This has provided a ring-side seat to a sweeping variety of teams, products, and technology stacks across more than…

If you understand how these systems operate, then you understand why they could change everything.

Embeddings are numerical representations of data (text, images, etc.) in a high-dimensional vector space that capture semantic meaning.