I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it. moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards. that's it. Have fun! onemillionchessboards.com
Vallari
@vallari.bsky.social
Software Engineer at Ceph, IBM I love podcasts, books, doodles, animals etc. Blog: vallariagrawal.com/ Bookmarks store: store.vallariagrawal.com/
I'm so lucky that I saw my teammates doing this around me and picked up this habit too. Great article!
Phil Eaton@eatonphil.bsky.social · last yr.Burn your title notes.eatonphil.com/2025-04-22-b...
There is no greater torture than uploading documents on government sites. It's like we are all cursed like Sisyphus, except our boulder is a single pdf document under 500kb.
This episode felt calmer than epsiode 3. Waaay too excited for next one. #jetlag youtu.be/0zTOd9trqEo?...
Ep 4 - We Raced To Visit The Most European Countries In 6 Days
YouTube video by Jet Lag: The Game
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Bluesky rolled out an April Fool's joke to the whole site - love to see it! (Shipping something goofy like this that shows up to every one of your users - when those users are in the millions - makes me smile - usually only startups can do this!) Great stuff from the Bluesky eng team:
In the nine years I've been blogging about software development, some of my posts have hit 300k+ readers, while others flopped, especially early on. I'm sharing all the lessons I learned the hard way about how to write popular blog posts for developers. refactoringenglish.com/chapters/wri...
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts...
refactoringenglish.com
I wrote a blog about building containers! 🐢 thanks to the amazing coding challenge by @johncrickett.bsky.social! vallariagrawal.com/blog/build-o...
Build your own docker
Learn how containers work - namespaces and cgroups
vallariagrawal.com
Just purchased the new book from @coralineada.bsky.social Are we just "building hammers"—tools that are neither inherently good nor bad, or are we unintentionally making society worse? thehammerbook.com #TheHammerBook
We Just Build Hammers: A New Book by Coraline Ada Ehmke
Stories of visionaries from the past, present, & future of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them. Available now from Apress.
thehammerbook.com
🌟 A meta blog post, about blogging :) ✍️ Write more blogs articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor) #devRel rmoff.net/2025/03/11/w... (if you like this one, check out rmoff.net/2023/07/19/b... too)
Write more blog articles, not fewer (Don’t leave the scraps on the cutting floor)
rmoff.net
Really great video, I think we can all appreciate these optimistic statistics of countries making good choices to reduce emissions! found this on latest issue of @tomscott.com's newsletter!
How much progress have we made on climate change?
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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I wrote a quick guide to getting started with self-hosting. It doesn't matter what your motivations are, now is a great time to get started taking ownership and responsibility for your data. justingarrison.com/blog/2025-03...
Get Started With Self-Hosting
Taking ownership of your data and services
justingarrison.com
Yeah no problem, did that a few weeks ago and haven't experienced fomo! Feeds: Web Dev Trending: bsky.app/profile/did:... Quiet Posters: bsky.app/profile/did:... Software Dev: bsky.app/profile/did:... Artist Trending: bsky.app/profile/did:... Good Vibes: bsky.app/profile/did:...
the most beneficial effect of many boycotts is on yourself 'but that won't hurt company x' is often irrelevant I'm taking back some agency I'm aligning my actions with my beliefs I feel better for it that's good enough in fact, imo it's better than punishment as a motive
I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
I wrote a blog on using vim for a week. It might help people trying to make the switch! Fun week, there were some tears ngl vallariagrawal.com/blog/vim-week/
To whom it may concern, I've conducted a thorough research on fonts for book covers (specifically, fantasy). Here's what I learned 🧵
what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs? I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...
this might be the funniest thing I've ever seen, the way Darth Vader holds that dress youtu.be/WpE_xMRiCLE?...
This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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Loved this game so much - putting pressure on three corners of the board.
I am creating a new course this year. 🔥 I will share with you how to make analytics queries (e.g. dashboards) on large data incredibly fast using Timescale. Just a few PostgreSQL queries executed and you're done - it's magically easy. I love it and always recommend it! ❤️
