I’ve made a special Lockdown Cinema for my laptop to replicate the big screen experience

IMPORTANT DATE UPDATE:

Today is π day! It is March 314th, 2020.

Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021 https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/image-optimizations/ by @cramforce

Loads of great #performance tips in there, some I didn’t know of before (like the decoding attribute 😯)

remembering this github comment

👉🏻 “Optimal Overlay Finder For Readable Text on a Background Image”

🔗 https://codepen.io/yaphi1/pen/oNbEqGV

by @yaphi1 ?

Proud Boy tries to rip up a rainbow sign, but fails due to a powerful gay enchantment placed on the sign. (Seattle, 2018)

Flashback to a 1985 try to implement DRM for games using scrambled letters on screen and a physical plastic lens to make them readable. Mostly frustrating the legal buyers much like the “You wouldn’t steal a handbag” videos did to DVD owners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpn9sLNg-6k

I’ve seen multiple reports of systems being taken down by y2k bugs that were “fixed” back in 1999 by remapping 1900-1920 to 2000-2020, and now it’s 1921

this is the very core, the pure essence, of What’s Wrong With Software Engineering

A cool dog’s photo taken in the 1800s

finishing touches for my study are finally done 🌷 looking forward to working and learning in here next year!

still waiting on some cable management clips in the mail

could i interest u in plant?

la historia del bebito gigante ha llegado a su fin

The Dogs of 2020

Don’t claim “SSGs are bad” when you mean “SSGs are bad for content that is not static”.

While we are on it: A hammer is bad for drilling holes.

Acabas de recibir el lengüetazo canino de la buena suerte, no lo ignores y recibirás la buena suerte

Y vos pasaste años estudiando algoritmos de sort. Era por acá. https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1343635489027403776

If you’ve never seen a reindeer posing under an aurora before, today is your day. https://bit.ly/3nIon4Z

Study

@jaffathecake @DKundel @chaos_monster @DasSurma @bendhalpern @forem My take has been (and still is) that you should send HTML wherever you can, and use JS to augment. It renders faster, and it’s resilient to JS failures.

It is a shame that as a community we’ve made it harder for people to do that by default.

At some point server-side rendering will be repackaged as “just-in-time static site generation” and I’m actually kinda looking forward to it.

nyand gate

Oh Robert…

http://wumo.com/wumo/2020/12/22

✈️ NEW DOC 👨‍✈️

We talk to @AsoboStudio and @Microsoft about the impossible goal of recreating the entire planet for @MSFSofficial.

• And the effect of releasing a game about exploration & travel, while most of the world is grounded.

WATCH: https://youtu.be/0w7q1ZFfsxs

“pontifex” sounds like the name the pope made up for himself when he was 14 and just getting into online gaming

How you know this is REAL engineering: if they’d put in two normal drawers, they’d have vastly more functional space.

This is basically the furniture equivalent of using kubernetes at your startup https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1339304718263144448

An Odd Bird

reject embrace modernity tradition

🎄

this is the best action film of the year

March: Ok stuck at home, healthy eating is the future

July: Pizza for 8 days in a row is fine

December: I wonder what the dog’s food tastes like

👉🏻 “An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.”

🔗 https://clig.dev/

busy afternoon in the @autogram_is offices

Google servers are down and we can’t do anything anymore. No emails, no docs, some can’t even turn on their lights. It’s quite scary to think about how centralised technologies are and how this could easily turn into a disa… nevermind, it’s back online now. Forget about it.

winter in the canadian rockies ❤️

I think everyone could use a lighthearted/happy story right now so here goes:

At the beginning of the pandemic I went through some painful personal stuff and would often go out at night for long walks because no one was around and I couldn’t sleep anyway. One night I was walking

I made a working Marauder’s Map that appears magically with AR and actually tracks people via GPS 🧙‍♂️

See the full thing here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=A3v6dLlylU8

👉🏻 “Nihilistic Password security questions”

🔗 https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-security-questions

Performance tip: shave of hundreds of lines of JavaScript by using the correct HTML elements.

Futuristic urban environments by Italian digital artist Annibale Siconolfi—a few more here https://instagram.com/p/CIkmiXgDYJU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The Import On Interaction Pattern: http://bit.ly/import-on-interaction ~ Lazy-load non-critical resources (e.g components, embeds) when a user interacts with UI that needs it.

✨ New blog post: “The Rules of Margin Collapse” ✨

Sometimes margins overlap, sometimes they don’t, and it’s often surprising and bewildering!

Learn how it works with this comprehensive, interactive tutorial that covers the 8 rules of margin collapse.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/rules-of-margin-collapse/

👉🏻 “Automatic Social Share Images”

🔗 https://www.ryanfiller.com/blog/automatic-social-share-images/

by @ryanfiller_

OH: Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.

“X is a compiler” alignment chart

How Disney Ruined Culture https://youtu.be/_jed8B4L4-4

The First Computer Program https://youtu.be/_JVwyW4zxQ4

when you need to confirm you’re not a robot

Welcome to the future

Modern web architectures.

👉🏻 “The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms”

🔗 https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/

Whoa, some of them are proper Star Trek TOS

New video! Why the web is such a mess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRjZtYs3wY

Okay, I put WAY too much time into researching this, and I almost know what’s happening. ALMOST.

First of all, JavaScript does this for legacy reasons. In C’s <time.h> we have struct tm, which does the same thing.

But why?

We see the rabbit hole, time to jump in. https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1329178764757045248

I’ll never listen to AC⚡️DC the same way again

Sometimes when I tell my friends I love their pets, I worry they don’t relay the message

Tenés 11 años en la clase de computación

@FunkCarotida DIOS! Que serion, tiene el mejor personaje para mi, y como dijeron hay algunos capitulos que son una joya

Well this is cool 😮 a collection of copy/paste single-unicode-character textures, created via the SVG <pattern> element.

https://notchris.net/patterns/

Created by Chris McGrane, shared via @tinyhelpersdev

👉🏻 “A Deep Dive Into CSS Grid minmax()”

🔗 https://ishadeed.com/article/css-grid-minmax/

All this excitement about disappearing messages.

Google’s been making entire social products disappear for years.

Static site generation + static hosting is cheap, simple and works for most blogs.

In general, it’s important that you are in control of your URLs and your content. https://twitter.com/SaraSoueidan/status/1328954494881820673

The perfect crime https://twitter.com/shellkryan/status/1327569835862142976

👉🏻 “🏛️ - An archivist browser controller that caches everything you browse, a library server with full text search to serve your archive.”

🔗 https://github.com/c9fe/22120

Nobody Is Normal: A New Animation Reveals What Lies Just Beneath the Surface of Being a Kid https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/nobody-is-normal-animation/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds

if you enjoyed my digital preservation talk at @Speakeasy_JS last week you’ll be amused to know that a flash game I made 16 years ago is now up and running thanks to the Ruffle project: https://elsie.glitch.me/

you can read a bit more about the game here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/elsie

The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries by @batch_man https://css-tricks.com/the-raven-technique-one-step-closer-to-container-queries/

Whenever I try to philosophize with my cat

Still one of my favourite Dilberts on startups and products.

The strange sound a block of ice makes when it hits the bottom of a 90 meter borehole in an Antarctic glacier. 🧊🔊

🎉 Announcing “Operator Lookup”, a search engine for JS operators 🥳

Why? Because they’re ungoogleable: search engines ignore special characters. I can never remember what these things are called, or how they work!

Try it now: https://joshwcomeau.com/operator-lookup/

2020 encapsulated in 1-minute…

When it’s all too much, take some time to think about Harvest mice

Concept: a witch cat that’s too fat to fly

Ah, when the web was simpler.

Spiders legs are hydraulically powered. That’s why when they die they curl up like this. There’s no more pressure in the system. #TheMoreYouKnow

Life hack: save time by crying about two things at the same time

I forced a bot to read over 1,000 hours of QAnon theories and then asked it to write QAnon theories of its own. Here they are.

Ostagram - mixing two images by style. https://www.ostagram.me/static_pages/lenta?last_days=1000&locale=en

convert -depth 8 yt_dl1.png rgb:yt_dl1.part convert -depth 8 yt_dl2.png rgb:yt_dl2.part cat yt_dl1.part yt_dl2.part > yt_dl-2020.9.20.tar.gz

@codepo8 Kind of a self-promotion, but maybe ppl will also like it. Time ago i wrote this which shows you pictures from /r/PuppySmiles but i never got to finish it because it was enough to my use. It doesnt work in FF with ETP on bc reddit

Tap/Click for another https://pudymody.github.io/puppies/

🐩🐕🐶I just wrote a dog browser by breed (or random).

https://codepo8.github.io/dog-browser/

Because playing is important.

Fuck cache invalidation, the biggest problem in computer science is guessing whether the help flag is -h, --help, or -help this time.

👉🏻 “Bear gets an X-Ray w/ CSS Variables 🐻🔍 #CodepenChallenge”

🔗 https://codepen.io/jh3y/full/yREybg

🎲Yesterday we wanted to play some games, and I realised I had no dice at home, so I wrote a quick simulator.

https://codepo8.github.io/dice-throw-simulator/index.html

Qué mujera

And yes, you totally open the portal with a sledgehammer 😂

Watch the full thing here: https://bit.ly/2T2VDWT

UFOs turned out to be nanobots floating in the cornea of your eyes.

something something missing NYC subway every day https://twitter.com/jadedcreative/status/1317142561379749894

spirit animals are just fursonas for cowards

I built my dog a selfie booth so she can take photos of herself by pushing a pedal with her paw

New #Codepen!

🐻Curious Bear🐻

Simple mouse parallax with #SVG, vanilla JS and #css animations.

👉 https://codepen.io/agathaco/pen/zYBGXaz via @CodePen

25 year old software joke about a toaster https://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt 👇🏼

How it started How it’s going

👉🏻 “Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in”

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/06/qiui-smart-chastity-sex-toy-security-flaw/?guccounter=1

Why? Oh why?

A thread of medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them. Starting with - The Oyster

Getting data out of PDF deserves at least senior engineer title TBH.

(PDF is where data goes to die) https://twitter.com/karenkho/status/1314198352423251968

Joker & Lex Luthor