This is a list of things you’re allowed to do that you thought you couldn’t, or didn’t even know you could. I haven’t tried everything on this list, mainly due to cost. But you’d be surprised how cheap most of … Read more
Sponsored By: Flatfile Data onboarding stifles growth in even the largest companies. One of the worst ways your team spends time is manually formatting customer data before it can be imported. B2B companies spend tons of effort trying to fix … Read more
By Lane Wagner on May 01, 2022 Working on a side project that aspires to be a real business has its ups and downs, especially after you’ve been at it for over 2 years. I’ve been hacking away at Boot.dev … Read more
Good beginnings I’ve now been recording music at home for most of my life. I started at around 14. I would record things into audacity, sometimes with my friend Cameron, but more often by myself. I had no real idea … Read more
fredrikj.net / blog / April 20, 2022 If I were to design a computer algebra system (CAS) from scratch today, I would try to achieve the following goals. Several ideas have already been implemented in one system or another, but … Read more
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?I’m trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! Why is it so … Read more
Javascript can do a lot, but it’s really over-used. HTML and CSS are surprisingly powerful on their own, so let’s have a look at some of the things you can achieve without Javascript (or a backend) – from animated diagrams … Read more
I read this article which examines why CSS is the way it is from the perspective of a technical director at the W3C. It’s easy, in hindsight, to critique things CSS got wrong or should’ve prioritized differently. But I want … Read more
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in … Read more
Hello! I was talking to some friends the other day about the types of conference talks we enjoyed. One category we came up with was “you know this thing that used to be super hard? Turns out now it’s WAY … Read more