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Search is a really tough problem in OSM for a few reasons, but I think a lot it stems from bad address parsing. I’ve been working on geocoder which uses a trained model to parse an…

As a narcoleptic I wish that the diagnosis was more accurate, or at least that the insurance companies were more holistic in their coverage of medication. The multiple sleep latenc…

Much appreciated. I’m US based, but I travel a lot for work. It’s a blessing to have a wider perspective on gender roles, especially with so much of the journey now in the rear vie…

If it’s any consolation, I haven’t gotten any favors as a trans woman, even with “passing privilege.” Both myself and the cis women in tech I know all hear the same thing: companie…

I really enjoyed the author's technical deep-dive and approach to debugging performance issues. Mild spoilers for anyone who hasn't played Riven, but the method for fixing Gehn's f…

The gist is something like a new cohort of front-end developers and some begrudging back-end folks who never actually learned how anything worked are now trying to inscribe their i…

I hope that I’m not the only one who feels the anger emanating from these sort of blog posts. It’s stuff like the Qwik developers claiming things like “Hydration is pure overhead” …

As a web developer, I’d like to think that we’re effectively alchemists who transmute vague ideas into products held together with absurd magic that’s constantly changing. Can we g…

Respectfully, those metrics are not proxies for productivity. They don’t seem to be grounded in a statical model either: >They reduced the code base size by 67% (21,500 LOC to 7200…

I just don’t buy how this is a productive way to build websites. Having the functionality of HTMX natively supported would be nice but you’d still need much of what React does. HTM…

Lookup a stenographer’s keyboard. There is a learning curve but a chorded keyboard can exceed typical typing speeds. I imagine a T9 isn’t too different in this regard.

This is very cool. I suspect the author encountered that 12 pixel offset due to a default value on the canvas’s text baseline property. Setting this to `top` may resolve the issue,…

That is a wonderful question and is exactly the sort of thing that should be on the Babel website. You’ll find no such explanation or even a summary of trade offs that come with ad…

I do appreciate your transparency, though I disagree with the sentiment that I’m arguing from a position of bad faith. The Babel team has not shown a moment of interest in lowering…

6to5…err, I mean Babel, Already accomplished it’s mission to bridge the feature gap between older browser implementations. And like all bureaucratic melanomas, the maintainers made…

IMO, ESBuild is the best option these days. It’s not as magic or batteries included as Webpack, but there’s very little kept secret from you during the compilation process. It’s fa…

This is really incredible work. If you’ve ever tried some of the more esoteric SVG features like filters and animations, you’re bound to have a horror story or three to share. In a…

The file handler is already tucked inside an asynchronous Promise based API. I think it’s reasonable that a mere attempt to get a handler synchronously is made possible. Whether to…

This is honestly very cool. VS Code uses a similar approach to their local file system provider, albeit with a wrapper around IndexDB instead of SQLite. There’s some interesting tr…

This was a great article, though I felt it was incomplete without the inclusion of the infamous “guy taped to ceiling” photo. A picture’s worth a thousand ping… https://thenerdstas…

Ironically, that’s how most email correspondence worked when I lived in Japan. Nearly every message had a paragraph of fluff before getting to the unpleasant details: Dear Customer…

As a developer who’s been working with React since the beta, I can confidently say that the author is speaking the truth. Especially so near the end of the article where they can’t…