Each Basecamp project has eight built-in tools you can toggle on or off. One for to-dos, one for file storage, one for scheduling, one for a message board, and so on. One of those tools is called "…

On the Console Repair Discord I'd offered to fix a Pokémon Sapphire cart that was initially not working, but then went to a repair shop and came back with a leg on one of the chips missing. The work…

Upsert in SQL Anton Zhiyanov is currently on a one-man quest to write detailed documentation for all of the fundamental SQL operations, comparing and contrasting how they work across multiple eng…

Geospatial SQL queries in SQLite using TG, sqlite-tg and datasette-sqlite-tg Alex Garcia built sqlite-tg - a SQLite extension that uses the brand new TG geospatial library to provide a whole suit…

For this, my 14th Ottawa International Animation Festival in 25 years, it occurred to me that I’ve been attending OIAF on and off for more than half of my life! I always make a po…

We already know one major effect of AI on the skills distribution: AI acts as a skills leveler for a huge range of professional work. If you were in the bottom half of the skill distribution for…

Accessible colour combinations - and upon hitting reload, there's actually some really stylish (to me) combinations whilst being either AA or AAA compliant. Nice. Source: randoma11y.com…

Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time … Resistance makes side projects hard The post…

For more than two decades, patients of an OB/GYN named Robert Hadden warned Columbia University that he was sexually inappropriate and abusive. One … How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecuto…

A Hackers' Guide to Language Models Jeremy Howard's new 1.5 hour YouTube introduction to language models looks like a really useful place to catch up if you're an experienced Pytho…

Should you give candidates feedback on their interview performance? Jacob provides a characteristically nuanced answer to the question of whether you should provide feedback to candidates you hav…

All of Brian's approach to dependencies and concerns about long-term support, we're talking 10 years here, are absolutely excellent spot on and he goes on to talk about enhance.dev which is really a n…

First Direct Arena, Leeds. Another epic setlist from The National packed with old rarities like Cherry Tree, Abel and Available and new treats, incl…

TG: Polygon indexing TG is a brand new geospatial library by Josh Baker, author of the Tile38 in-memory spatial server (kind of a geospatial Redis). TG is written in pure C and delivered as a sin…

...with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus. This rare event was rescheduled so often (due to the pandemic) that we th…

Yesterday evening my former colleague Fred Harper invited me to be his first guest on his new DevRelShow. For about 70 minutes we talked about all things Developer Relations, how to get started as a d…

With Tanaka-san outside Bear Pond in 2016. The second preview song from Tokyo is streaming everywhere. Angel Stain recalls hazy mornings in characterful neighb…

What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a well-considered architecture? What’s requir…