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Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

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The rich-text editor framework for React.

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You're looking for a name for a health blog you're starting. You'll be writing about health tips, new studies, nutrition advice, and more. You want a name that will help your readers achieve their health goals.

Improving performance of web applications will always be sexy. We want the page to load faster,...

A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR

I think of these as folk interfaces, akin to the jigs one makes in wood-working. Divorced from grandiose ambitions of building comprehensive systems, it leads the programmer to directly engage with data.

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the future of software development.

I think of these as folk interfaces, akin to the jigs one makes in wood-working. Divorced from grandiose ambitions of building comprehensive systems, it leads the programmer to directly engage with data.

Large language models like GPT-4 are becoming increasingly capable, at an alarming rate. Within a couple of years, we won't need developers any more! …Or at least, that's the narrative going viral on Twitter. I'm much more optimistic about what these AI advancements mean for the future of software development.

If you are familiar with Object-Oriented Programming, then you’ve probably heard about the SOLID principles.

If you are familiar with Object-Oriented Programming, then you’ve probably heard about the SOLID principles.

How we made a package that depends on every single npm package... and completely broke npm in the process.

If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...

Simplify troubleshooting in your Vercel functions with OpenTelemetry and Tracetest! Uncover the power of distributed tracing and see how trace-based testing is changing the game!

The other day I received a newsletter from the author Robin Sloan, containing samples of some...

Calculate the reading time of a webpage with JavaScript — Phuoc Nguyen

I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.

If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.

“Audio-visual” is a cliché in visual coding and is still popular. By taking a sound source or input and analyzing the data, you can create various visual (and other) representations, ranging from practical visualizations to more expressive pieces. On this page, we will take a look at the fundamental structure of sound and examples of how to transform it into visuals.

How to use svg sprite icons in a React app. Create a single svg file that contains all the icons and use a React component to display a specific icon by referencing its id. Use Sly CLI to download icons from the command line.

Let’s say you have a project that requires you to upload images, videos, files, etc. Where would you store those files? Well, a static…

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Exploring new ways of approaching CSS by querying custom properties and their values.

From insight to implementation of adaptive time compression in Axiom’s columnar database.