magnASCII.io Simone Magnaschi
Senior Full Stack Web Dev

Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team

Nadia Odunayo has been so often the smiling face on the door of this event, but did you know she’s the founder and (more impressively!) one woman development team behind The StoryGraph, a reading community of over a million book lovers.
Saved on: 2024-12-18

Off the Beaten Path to Upgrade Symfony 2.8 to 7.2 | Tomas Votruba

There are two types of upgrades. One follows only UPGRADE.md files on every release, replacing what has been removed with new alternatives. It works, and we could say that the codebase will be "up-to-date."
Saved on: 2024-12-18

Design Token-Based UI Architecture

Design tokens are design decisions as data and serve as a single source of truth for design and engineering. Utilizing deployment pipelines, they enable automated code generation across platforms, allowing for faster updates and improved consistency in design.
Saved on: 2024-12-18

vercel/fun

Local serverless function λ development runtime.
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How Autoload made PHP elegant. Discover how autoloading has… | by Julien SC

PHP has undergone significant changes since its early versions, and one of the most impactful features is the autoloading mechanism. This feature has transformed the way developers organize and manage their code, reducing clutter and enhancing efficiency.
Saved on: 2024-12-12

16 libri per dev da regalare e regalarvi per Natale

Perchè dovrei leggere libri per dev quando imparo meglio con i video di Tiktok o youtube che tra un capitolo e l’altro mi propongono video di modelle o i goal di Cristiano Ronaldo? Il vostro cervello reagisce in maniera diversa, sappiatelo.
Saved on: 2024-12-12

From where I left

I’m not the kind of person that develops a strong attachment to their own work. When I decided to leave Redis, about 1620 days ago (~ 4.44 years), I never looked at the source code, commit messages, or anything related to Redis again.
Saved on: 2024-12-10

Avoid Common Mistakes while using hooks in React

This is my first story on any frontend stack, as I am currently going through a learning course, so thought of sharing a few concepts as I learn. Today, we are diving into the world of React Hooks — a game-changing feature introduced in React 16.
Saved on: 2024-12-10

delight-im/PHP-Auth

Authentication for PHP. Simple, lightweight and secure. Written once, to be used everywhere.
Saved on: 2024-12-08

Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter

One of my all-time favourite CSS tricks is using backdrop-filter: blur() to create a frosted glass effect. I use it in just about every project I work on, including this blog! This effect helps us add depth and realism to our projects. It’s lovely.
Saved on: 2024-12-07

Every UUID

A searchable list of every UUID v4 - scroll till you find a new favorite.
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Unsolicited advice to my younger designer self

What I wish I’d known starting out as a designer in big tech. Last summer was my 3rd year working as a product designer in Microsoft.
Saved on: 2024-12-06

The action pattern : r/PHP

Saved on: 2024-12-06

The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

After spending the last few years embedded in AI-assisted development, I've noticed a fascinating pattern. While engineers report being dramatically more productive with AI, the actual software we use daily doesn’t seem like it’s getting noticeably better. What's going on here?
Saved on: 2024-12-06

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

I’ve been running databases-as-a-service for a long time, and there are always new things to keep abreast of - new technologies, different ways of solving problems, not to mention all the research coming out of universities.
Saved on: 2024-12-06

outerbase/studio

LibSQL Studio is a fully-featured, lightweight GUI client for managing SQLite-based databases like Turso, LibSQL, and rqlite. It runs entirely in your browser, so there's no need to download anything. The features mentioned above are just a few of the many we offer.
Saved on: 2024-12-05

Egoless Engineering

Like many of you, I was raised in the background radiation of Calvinist thought. I expected little but redemptive hard labor, before presumably one day dying in a mine. I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while.
Saved on: 2024-12-04

Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here!

LiveView 1.0.0 is out! This 1.0 milestone comes six years after the first LiveView commit.
Saved on: 2024-12-04

Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching

As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of https://aws-news.com‘s busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very effective caching. This resulted in significantly reduced backend load and a much faster frontend.
Saved on: 2024-12-04

Facebook's Little Red Book

In 2012, Facebook was facing a challenge as it hit a billion users: rapid scaling was outpacing their ability to maintain focus on the big picture. Narratives became fragmented, and with them, the essence of what tied the company to Zuckerberg's vision began to fade.
Saved on: 2024-12-02

steel-dev/steel-browser

The open-source browser API for AI agents & apps. The best way to build live web agents and browser automation tools. Steel is an open-source browser API. We make it easy for AI devs to programmatically control browsers that work with your favorite frameworks.
Saved on: 2024-12-02

New in Symfony 7.2: Stateless CSRF (Symfony Blog)

The stateless_token_ids option is one of the parts that make the stateless CSRF feature as safe as the traditional CSRF feature, because it explicitly lists the token IDs allowed when using the new feature. First, the source of the request is validated using the Origin/Referer HTTP headers.
Saved on: 2024-11-30

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic

Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let's hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous "2x2 decorated slope" is a LEGO minifigure's interface to the world.
Saved on: 2024-11-29

A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support • Josh W. Comeau

According to caniuse, container queries are supported for almost 93% of users(opens in new tab) (as of November 2024). That sounds pretty good! My mom would have been thrilled if I came home with 93% on my report card.
Saved on: 2024-11-27

Getting Over Not Being A Good Enough Programmer

Nifty Little Me Blog
Saved on: 2024-11-26

A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table

Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston.
Saved on: 2024-11-25

This Website is Hosted on Bluesky

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.
Saved on: 2024-11-25

1 dataset. 100 visualizations.

Can we come up with 100 visualizations from one simple dataset? As an information design agency working with data visualization every day, we challenged ourselves to accomplish this using insightful and visually appealing visualizations.
Saved on: 2024-11-24

Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest

Point of Interest (POI) datasets of any strong quality have rarely been published freely. Overture and OpenStreetMap (OSM) have been making inroads but even in 2021, I could only find half of Starbucks' locations in OSM.
Saved on: 2024-11-24

April King — Handling Cookies is a Minefield

HTTP cookies are a small piece of data set by either Javascript or HTTP servers, and which are essential for maintaining state on the otherwise stateless system known as the World Wide Web.
Saved on: 2024-11-21

https://tips.io/

Saved on: 2024-11-19

Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.
Saved on: 2024-11-14

The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

This blog post will be fundamentally different and less technical than the other ones we have in our school website.
Saved on: 2024-11-14

How to Delegate Effectively as Your Responsibility Grows

I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale.
Saved on: 2024-11-13

Functors to Monads: A Story of Shapes · in Code

For many years now I’ve been using a mental model and intuition that has guided me well for understanding and teaching and using functors, applicatives, monads, and other related Haskell abstractions, as well as for approaching learning new ones.
Saved on: 2024-11-12

Transfer Playlists Between Music Services

Transfer Playlists From Any Music Platform to Any Other Music Platform! Including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, Google Play Music, TIDAL and more!
Saved on: 2024-11-12

How I ship projects at big tech companies

I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get it right, because I’m good at it.
Saved on: 2024-11-12

sending-an-ethernet-packet.md

For as long as I've been making videos on the low byte productions youtube channel, I've wanted to make a series about "Networking from scratch", by which I mean building a full TCP/IP stack from the ground up on a microcontroller.
Saved on: 2024-11-11

IMG_0416

Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app. The feature worked… really well.
Saved on: 2024-11-11

Methodology is bullshit: principles for product velocity | SSOReady

All else being equal, there’s usually a trade-off between speed and quality. For the most part, doing something faster usually requires a bit of compromise. There’s a corner getting cut somewhere. But all else need not be equal. We can often eliminate requirements … and just do less stuff.
Saved on: 2024-11-08

An analysis of title drops in movies

The overall meta-ness of this is - of course - nothing new. And filmmakers and scriptwriters have been doing it since the dawn of the medium itself*. It's known in film speak as a title drop.
Saved on: 2024-11-06

Programmer in Berlin: Culture

This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them.
Saved on: 2024-11-05

Show HN: Convert any website into a React component | Hacker News

It was pretty hard producing the minimal code necessary while maintaining the same visual look. To do this, we implemented things like abstracting out global styles, removing inherited styles, pulling out SVGs, deleting styles with no effect, and condensing styles into their shorthand properties.
Saved on: 2024-11-04

Embeddings are underrated

Someone asks you to “make some embeddings”. What do you input? You input text.1 You don’t need to provide the same amount of text every time. E.g. sometimes your input is a single paragraph while at other times it’s a few sections, an entire document, or even multiple documents.
Saved on: 2024-11-01

Make it Yourself

Across the world creative people are making high quality things of all kinds and sharing their work freely with all of humanity.
Saved on: 2024-11-01

I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funera

I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, 2024, at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Saved on: 2024-10-31

How I write code using Cursor: A review

In forums relating to AI and AI coding in particular, I see a common inquiry from experienced software developers: Is anyone getting value out of tools like Cursor, and is it worth the subscription price?
Saved on: 2024-10-29

(44) Vectors in SQLite! (with libSQL) - YouTube

In this video, I explore how to improve related article recommendations on a website by leveraging SQLite with experimental vector support in libSQL, a package created by Turso. Follow along as we use OpenAI's API to generate embeddings, store them in a database, and calculate nearest neighbors for
Saved on: 2024-10-27

An Introduction to BGP... from the operator of a small AS

Border Gateway Protocol (often abbreviated BGP) is a critical protocol that makes the modern Internet possible, yet remains one of its most poorly understood parts even among its long-time users. At the same time, it has played a significant role in several high-profile outages on the Internet.
Saved on: 2024-10-24

Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published

GHQ is available now, nearly 70 years after the author created it.
Saved on: 2024-10-21

How Google took my job — and how yours could be next

As you may know, up until this month, I was editor-in-chief of GGRecon, a small but growing publisher in the UK focusing on gaming and esports. In August last year, we hit record numbers of visitors to the site.
Saved on: 2024-10-20

Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch

What is JSON Patch?# JSON Patch is a standardized format defined in RFC 6902 for describing how to modify a JSON document. It was created to address the need for a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to resources, especially over HTTP.
Saved on: 2024-10-19

mathix420/free-the-web-apps

FTWA is an utility to free your web apps from their browser's frame. So you don't need to wait for Arc Browser on Linux to have great looking webapps! Feel free to contribute and suggest apps you find useful!
Saved on: 2024-10-16

0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months

Malkani: I'm Zahan. I've been an engineer at Meta for over a decade. I'm here to tell you about how we launched the Threads app last year. Let's start by talking about the opportunity that presented itself. It was January last year, and I'd just returned to work after a couple of months on leave.
Saved on: 2024-10-15

adaline/gateway

The only fully local production-grade Super SDK that provides a simple, unified, and powerful interface for calling more than 200+ LLMs. Gateway object maintains the queue, cache, callbacks, implements OpenTelemetry, etc.
Saved on: 2024-10-15

Everything App for your teams

Huly is your ultimate task, project, and time management solution meticulously crafted for developers and product teams alike.
Saved on: 2024-10-14

HTML for People

HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on. I’m Blake Watson. I’ve been building websites since the early 2000s.
Saved on: 2024-10-11

The Copenhagen Book

The Copenhagen Book provides a general guideline on implementing auth in web applications. It is free, open source, and community maintained. It may be opinionated or incomplete at times but we hope this fills a certain void in online resources.
Saved on: 2024-10-11

Media Chrome Docs

Documentation for Media Chrome, a set of fully customizable media player controls using web components.
Saved on: 2024-10-09

Practices of Reliable Software Design

If we find out we can’t use an off-the-shelf solution, we need to build something cheap and reliable. That usually means not having all the bells and whistles, but that’s a trade-off worth making. One of my favourite ways of phrasing this is
Saved on: 2024-10-09

My dev environment for php projects

Project development requires not only programming skills but also the ability to set up an effective working environment. In this article, I'll share my experience in creating a dev environment for PHP projects using Docker.
Saved on: 2024-10-08

PHPDocker.io

A PHP development environment generator built with Docker containers.
Saved on: 2024-10-05

How were the 70s versions of pong and similar games implemented without a p

They were made by mostly avoiding 'computing' concepts altogether, and treating it more like a mechanical thing. For example with Pong a major component is usually timers - every xth of a second the timer will emit a signal.
Saved on: 2024-10-05

SiteOne Crawler

Our mission is to help improve the quality of websites and web applications worldwide, free of charge. Discover a free website analyzer and exporter you will ♥ as a Dev/DevOps, QA engineer, SEO specialist, website owner or consultant. With love from SiteOne.
Saved on: 2024-10-04

Fixing Layout Shifts Caused by Web Fonts | DebugBear

This post explores how web fonts can cause layout shifts, negatively impacting your Core Web Vitals scores and user experience. Layout shifts occur when visible elements on a page change position unexpectedly.
Saved on: 2024-10-03

Serialization is the Secret - Zach Daniel

One of the major elements that sets Elixir apart from most other programming languages is immutability. But what does that actually mean? What does it do for us? The word immutable is defined by Merriam-Webster as “not capable of or susceptible to change”.
Saved on: 2024-10-02

Data Synchronization - ui.dev

Tags: #react-js
Saved on: 2024-10-01

The Grug Brained Developer

Introduction this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused grug brain developer try collect learns into small, easily digesti
Tags: #programming
Saved on: 2024-10-01

Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene | Marin Comics

As an epic fantasy painter, Boris Vallejo had a great influence on 1980s and 90s fantasy book covers, computer game box art, and the demoscene. Through the decades, his works have been replicated by pixel artists.
Tags: #art
Saved on: 2024-10-01

Bop Spotter

I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.
Saved on: 2024-09-30

moveme.tv

Find a movie to move you to a mood
Saved on: 2024-09-25

ReplicateUI

This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Saved on: 2024-09-24

What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe? - by peabee

A few days ago, I went to a cafe near my home. I sat down and scanned the QR code on the table. It took me to a website displaying the cafe's menu. It asked me for my name and Whatsapp mobile number. I entered the details and placed the order. In 5 mins my order arrived at the table.
Saved on: 2024-09-23

Launch emulators like never before

App for launching iOS and Android emulators. Lightweight, Open source, fully native. MiniSim sits in your menubar and offers a lot of handy utilities.
Saved on: 2024-09-22

https://simpleicons.org/

Saved on: 2024-09-20

Text makeup

You can also hover over the sidebar to see working examples. Type any string or use the menu above to show examples. Then, tap on any letter to see more information.
Saved on: 2024-09-19

Comic Mono

A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1). I have no font creation skills; I’m just a software developer.
Saved on: 2024-09-19

Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

Ready to Join? Is this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea.
Saved on: 2024-09-18

Tools

Why use? Best time to start using?
Saved on: 2024-09-17

Must-Know Tips for Efficient Laravel Apps (Not just selecting only needed c

Forget the usual advice like selecting only needed columns, subqueries, eager loading, caching queries, using queues, and indexes. This article dives deeper into actionable strategies that can truly level up your Laravel applications. The toBase() function is a hidden gem in Laravel's Eloquent ORM.
Saved on: 2024-09-17

HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)

. Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company is a compelling read.
Saved on: 2024-09-16

A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Piccalilli

I know I also have a terrible record with open source maintenance, so I thought I’d archive the original and just post this instead. Do with it what you want! To be super clear, this is a reset that works for me, personally and us at Set Studio.
Saved on: 2024-09-15

Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics

Though a private company, Felix International (“OnlyFans”) is a UK company and therefore required to publicly disclose certain information pertaining to its business and operations.
Saved on: 2024-09-13

The 7 Levels of Laravel Optimization: From Rookie to Optimization Overlord

Buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the wild world of Laravel optimizations, climbing the treacherous ladder from “just glad it works” to “your colleagues might call you a wizard” or curse you for turning simple tasks into a dark art. Ah, the basics.
Saved on: 2024-09-12

http://localhost:4321/

Saved on: 2024-09-12

Illuminate

Illuminate Illuminate EXPERIMENT Sign in Illuminate Google apps Main menu
Saved on: 2024-09-11

yournextstore/yournextstore

We officially support the current LTS version – 20 at the time of writing. YNS should work on versions 18, 20, and 22. If you're using one of those versions and encounter a problem, please report it!
Saved on: 2024-09-10

Features of your font you had no idea about

In the previous article (Quick guide to web typography for developers) we covered the basic steps to improve the typography in your apps. Today I'd like to expand a bit more on the topic of fonts and what you can get out of a high-quality font (paid or free).
Saved on: 2024-09-10

How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids

When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
Saved on: 2024-09-10

Just Our Type: The Story of Creating Figma Sans | Figma Blog

Developing a brand refresh means rethinking its very foundations. As we charted an evolution of image, color, pattern, and motion, we treated our typeface as a crucial counterpart—a way to punctuate a heightened visual language.
Saved on: 2024-09-09

OAuth from First Principles - Stack Auth

I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3rd-party app, and then continuously attack it until we arrive at something that's secure, kind of.
Saved on: 2024-09-09

Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way

Many of us create a few Git commits daily, either through GUI tools or the command line. It can be as simple as following these steps: Here, we've used Git high-level commands (also known as Porcelain commands) like git add, and git commit.
Saved on: 2024-09-09

Introducing Pollen

Pollen is a highly configurable, responsive library of style-agnostic CSS variables for your next design system. It lets you write faster, more consistent, and more maintainable styles. Made and maintained with ❤️ by the fine people at Bokeh.
Saved on: 2024-09-09
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