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This is a mirror of my tweets in an attempt to follow the indieweb movement.

December 8, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred Why are the best snacks always in the back seat?!? by Unnecessary Inventions

๐Ÿ“น Starred Heavy and Gigantic Ancient Whale Resin Art by Thalasso hobbyer ใŸใ‚‰ใใปใณใ‚„

๐Ÿ“น Starred Tall, dark, and gruesome. โ–  Reverse Trivia 2x01 by The Technical Difficulties

๐Ÿ“น Starred What if we made a camera that sees in reverse? by Stuff Made Here

๐Ÿ“น Starred A chair built for your half-dirty clothes by Simone Giertz

๐Ÿ“น Starred Testing The World’s Smartest Crow by Mark Rober

๐Ÿ“น Starred I Built An Emordnilap Machine by Vsauce

๐Ÿ“น Starred DRIFT5 #RCDriftTok #parody #stopmotion #toycar by omozoc

December 7, 2024

There is a cognitive bias known as the curse of knowledge, which occurs when one assumes that others possess the same level of knowledge during communication.

This phenomenon is quite common in software development. People who have experience writing certain types of code and those who don’t often struggle to communicate effectively, even if they share the same theoretical foundation (algorithms, programming languages, or domain knowledge). The reason for this lies in the significant flexibility of software engineering; there are multiple ways to implement the same functionality, each with its own set of challenges.

To eliminate such communication barriers, various technical fields have developed their own set of idioms or design patterns. New projects built on these practices can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. The same is true for the field of databases; however, due to its niche nature and high degree of commercialization, knowledge circulated among the public is very scarce, and engineering practices are scattered across various open-source projects.

In this article, I will build a SQL IR from scratch based on my own best practices, which will facilitate the progressive sharing of some design considerations.

From What I Talk About When I Talk About Query Optimizer (Part 1): IR Design

December 7, 2024

To break from talking about actual DNS features, check out this little snippet instead:

dig +short TXT {0..92}.vid.demo.servfail.network | sed 's/[" ]*//g' | base64 -d | mpv -

Requires bind-tools, mpv. If it doesn’t work, try adding @8.8.8.8 just after dig, or replace mpv with ffplay

From SERVFAIL: the first 100 days

December 6, 2024

You have a unique voice that others donโ€™t have. Not everyone learns best from the top teacher out there, not everyone enjoys the writing of the most prolific blogger you know, and not everyone uses the most popular app for their problem. You donโ€™t know who might benefit from what you offer, and you wonโ€™t know until you go for it!

From Ship it anyway

December 6, 2024

But they should not be afraid! Libraries are not magic. They are just code someone else wrote. After all, I pasted the entirety of is-number above, and nothing in there is too mysterious. And beyond librariesโ€”languages are not magic, operating systems are not magic, nothing is magic. Dig into the source code and you will find code you can read and understand.

If you are a proponent of tiny libraries, I encourage you to overcome your fear and try writing the code yourself. You are more capable than you think.

From Micro-libraries need to die already | Ben Visness

December 6, 2024

But this stuff right hereโ€”adding things that never happened to a pictureโ€”thatโ€™s immoral because confusion and deception is the point of this product. There are only shady applications for it. Looking at a lot of the examples here I canโ€™t tell whatโ€™s real without inspecting themโ€”the crashed motorcycle has a bicycle tire for example but man I would never look this closely in most situations.

So right now I think this stuff should be straight up illegal.

From No oneโ€™s ready for this

December 6, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred Ship it anyway by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Beating the compiler by Matt Keeter

๐Ÿ“น Starred DRIFT4 #stopmotion #PresidentTrump #donaldtrump by omozoc

๐Ÿ“น Starred The Man Who Saved The World by Vsauce

๐Ÿ“น Starred Argh! Real Angels! by Weebl’s Stuff

๐Ÿ“– Starred Micro-libraries need to die already by Ben Visness

๐Ÿ“– Starred Safety and stability by Robin Rendle

๐Ÿ“– Starred A message in binary by Robin Rendle

๐Ÿ“– Starred No oneโ€™s ready for this by Robin Rendle

๐Ÿ“– Starred Every webpage deserves to be a place by Robin Rendle

December 4, 2024

Communities function like that Tamagotchi. You canโ€™t play with them until you feed them and care for them. Unless you keep those health and happiness meters high, they will not behave in the ways youโ€™d like them to, potentially undermining your efforts and investments.

This goes for any community. Whether it is one you created and managed for your product or open source project or one that previously existed (though especially the latter).

One of the fun aspects of the Tamagotchi was that it could be unpredictable. They had personalities and they evolved in stages, which also affected their behavior. You had to invest time and effort to care for the Tamagotchi, but the outcome was unpredictable because the personality was intrinsic to the specific Tamagotchi and not something you could control.

In much the same way communities tend to have a personality. Existing communities will have already established one that you need to invest time to understand and adapt to.

Instead of tracking the outputs, track the inputs. What are the activities we did to foster the community this month?

Done right, community efforts can pay off immensely

From Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi

December 3, 2024

File over app is a self-guaranteeing promise. If files are in your control, in an open format, you can use those files in another app at any time. Not an export. The exact same files. Itโ€™s good practice to test this with any self-proclaimed file-over-app app you use.

โ€œStainless steelโ€ is a self-guaranteeing promise. You can test it yourself on any tool that makes this promise, and the stainlessness of the steel cannot be withdrawn.

Terms and policies are not self-guaranteeing. A company may promise the privacy of your data, but those policies can change at any time. Changes can retroactively affect data you have spent years putting into the tool. Examples: Google, Zoom, Dropbox, Tumblr, Slack, Adobe, Figma.

A self-guaranteeing promise about privacy gives you proof that the tool cannot access your data in the first place.

Encoding values into a governance structure is not self-guaranteeing. Given enough motivation, the corporate structure can be reversed. The structure is not in your hands. Example: OpenAI.

From Self-guaranteeing promises โ€” Steph Ango

December 2, 2024

However, these tools arenโ€™t necessarily faster because theyโ€™re using a faster language. They could just be faster because 1) theyโ€™re being written with performance in mind, and 2) the API surface is already settled, so the authors donโ€™t have to spend development time tinkering with the overall design. Heck, you donโ€™t even need to write tests! Just use the existing test suite from the previous tool.

In my career, Iโ€™ve often seen a rewrite from A to B resulting in a speed boost, followed by the triumphant claim that B is faster than A. However, as Ryan Carniato points out, a rewrite is often faster just because itโ€™s a rewrite โ€“ you know more the second time around, youโ€™re paying more attention to perf, etc.

In the world of Node.js scripts, we donโ€™t get the benefits of the bytecode cache at all. Every time you run a Node script, the entire script has to be parsed and compiled from scratch. This is a big reason for the reported perf wins between JavaScript and non-JavaScript tooling.

Most developers ignore the fact that they have the skills to debug/fix/modify their dependencies. They are not maintained by unknown demigods but by fellow developers.

This breaks down if JavaScript library authors are using languages that are different (and more difficult!) than JavaScript. They may as well be demigods!

For another thing: itโ€™s straightforward to modify JavaScript dependencies locally. Iโ€™ve often tweaked something in my local node_modules folder when Iโ€™m trying to track down a bug or work on a feature in a library I depend on. Whereas if itโ€™s written in a native language, Iโ€™d need to check out the source code and compile it myself โ€“ a big barrier to entry.

That said, I donโ€™t think that JavaScript is inherently slow, or that weโ€™ve exhausted all the possibilities for improving it. Sometimes I look at truly perf-focused JavaScript, such as the recent improvements to the Chromium DevTools using mind-blowing techniques like using Uint8Arrays as bit vectors, and I feel that weโ€™ve barely scratched the surface.

I also think that, as a community, we have not really grappled with what the world would look like if we relegate JavaScript tooling to an elite priesthood of Rust and Zig developers. I can imagine the average JavaScript developer feeling completely hopeless every time thereโ€™s a bug in one of their build tools. Rather than empowering the next generation of web developers to achieve more, we might be training them for a career of learned helplessness. Imagine what it will feel like for the average junior developer to face a segfault rather than a familiar JavaScript Error.

From Why Iโ€™m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in โ€œfasterโ€ languages | Read the Tea Leaves

December 1, 2024

The truth is that there is kind of a lot of detail to all of it. But also, detail ultimately just means it is a slog. x86 has a scrillion opcodes to implement, win32 has scrillion APIs, but the path from zero to a scrillion starts with a step like any other.

“Good things happen when I try hard to chase my sense of excitement, ignoring impulses to produce legible outcomes.” I think that observation about legibility really reached me. I went through a period in the past where I found I was only reading books that I felt like I ought to be reading and had ultimately been killing my enjoyment of reading, and I was trying to recover that feeling about programming.

Also, had I known I would need to implement some of MMX, would I have even started this project? Not even sure. I have seen it observed that sometimes not knowing how hard something will be is an important help to actually just starting to try.

I have sometimes thought about this: what are the chances of someone having both the low-level skill set needed to usefully contribute, and also the need to emulate an old Windows program? This is to me one of the best things about the internet, where even if such a person is a one in a billion chance, we have a few billion people around on here.

From Tech Notes: retrowin32, two years in

December 1, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred retrowin32, two years in by Tech Notes

๐Ÿ“– Starred Garbage collection and closures by Jake Archibald’s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred Video with alpha transparency on the web by Jake Archibald’s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred hypercard Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred webcare-webshare Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred throbber Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred carouscroll Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred snow-fall Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal! by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred browser-window Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“– Starred table-saw Web Component by Zach Leatherman

๐Ÿ“น Starred Why Tufting Guns are BRILLIANT (SUPER SLOW MO) by Xyla Foxlin

๐Ÿ“น Starred I Tried Building My Own Space Satellite by Mark Rober

๐Ÿ“น Starred Become Anyone 2.0 - A Full Face LED Mask by SeanHodgins

November 30, 2024

The year is 2005. You’re blasting a pirated mp3 of “Feel Good Inc” and chugging vanilla coke while updating your website.

Itโ€™s just a simple change, so you log on via FTP, edit your style.css file, hit save - and reload the page to see your changes live.

Now listen, I really donโ€™t want to go back to doing live updates in production. That can get painful real fast. But I think itโ€™s amazing when the files you see in your code editor are exactly the same files that are delivered to the browser. No compilation, no node process, no build step. Just edit, save, boom.

Funnily enough, many build tools advertise their superior โ€œDeveloper Experienceโ€ (DX). For my money, thereโ€™s no better DX than shipping code straight to the browser and not having to worry about some cryptic node_modules error in between.

So, can we all ditch our build tools soon? Probably not.

From Going Buildless | Max Bรถck

November 30, 2024

You see, people on the Web think conventions are boring. That regular controls need to be reinvented and redesigned. They donโ€™t believe there are any norms.

Anyway, with Appleโ€™s betrayal, I think itโ€™s fair to say thereโ€™s no hope for this tradition to continue.

From In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me

November 30, 2024

I donโ€™t necessarily believe that everyone can have a job or even a career that makes them spring out of bed in the morning and gives them creative satisfaction in their day-to-day. Ultimately we live under late-stage capitalism, and I certainly couldnโ€™t afford my house (or indeed any house) if I dedicated my life to, say, running choirs.

So I get my creative energy and joy from elsewhere. Iโ€™m fiercely protective of my free time, even if itโ€™s just spent horizontal on the sofa playing video games. When the working day is done, I have creative pursuits that bring me joy and put art into the world in their own little way.

Art is in the weird and wonderful websites I make occasionally, which bring people (including myself!) a moment of joy when they land on them.

In a world of shit, creativity for creativityโ€™s sake is radical.

I cant stress enough that last quote, So i will quote it again

In a world of shit, creativity for creativityโ€™s sake is radical.

From The art in everyday life - localghost

November 30, 2024

There is no reason for AI generated output to be shared with humans online. There’s already so much on the internet created by humans โ€” so much that not only would I never be able to see it all, I will never understand just how much there is. All of us use our creativity to make things and share them with others in the hope for human connection. Badge saying “Created by a human with a heart”

From “Created by a human” badges - cadence’s weblog (personal blog)

November 30, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred Programmers Wont Like This by Low Level Learning

๐Ÿ“น Starred Truco de Nintendo DS para mostrar grรกficos 3D en las 2 pantallas by Guinxu

๐Ÿ“– Starred The moment before: 30th Aug by Remy Sharp

๐Ÿ“– Starred https://sarahcandersen.com/post/768585891952345088 by Sarah’s Scribbles

๐Ÿ“– Starred 20 years blogging by Paul Kinlan

๐Ÿ“– Starred Idly musing about Manifest by Paul Kinlan

๐Ÿ“– Starred Being forced to upgrade by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“น Starred New divisibility rule! (30,000 of them) by standupmaths

๐Ÿ“น Starred We sent a ROBOT CHICKEN to "SPACE"! by Kids Invent Stuff

๐Ÿ“– Starred ReST vs GraphQL an invalid comparison by Programming Missives

๐Ÿ“– Starred Going Buildless by Max Bรถck

๐Ÿ“– Starred Unsafe for work by fettblog.eu | TypeScript, JavaScript, Jamstack

๐Ÿ“– Starred Hacking cars in JavaScript (Running replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF) by Charlie Gerard

๐Ÿ“– Starred In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox by tonsky.me

๐Ÿ“– Starred The art in everyday life by localghost.dev

๐Ÿ“– Starred “Created by a human” badges by Cadence’s Blog

November 29, 2024

Weโ€™ve built incredible general-purpose computing devices with processing power to run circles around the big desktops I learned to program on. But the way we interface with them locks them up as devices for consumption, not creation.

Itโ€™s not because I canโ€™t use my phone for theseโ€”I have! People usually like to bash iOS, saying things like, โ€œitโ€™s just not possible to write the apps to do all this in the first placeโ€ฆโ€ but for me, all the apps actually exist! I drafted this whole post in a markdown app on my phone. Blink Shell gives me a whole Linux environment to build code, even on iOS. Tailscale lets me build a website at home and access it anywhere. GitHub, Gmail, and Google Docs all have mobile apps.

Rather, the reason I donโ€™t is because itโ€™s so unsatisfying. The disconnect between my speed of thought and my speed of action is grating, making it impossible to get into anything resembling a flow state. Like a runner stuck on a crowded sidewalk, Iโ€™m constantly frustrated by the sputtering pace of progress.

From What if typing on phones was fast? โ€“ Jake Zimmerman

November 29, 2024

Robin Sloan coined these type of apps as home-cooked. Following his analogy, technically I am a professional chef but at home Iโ€™m creating dishes that no one else has to like. All the stuff I have to care about at work - UX best practices, what our Community wants, or even the preferences of my bosses and colleagues re: code style and organisation can be left behind. Iโ€™m free to make my own messed-up version of an apricot chicken toasted sandwich, and itโ€™s delicious.

From Home-cooked web apps

November 29, 2024

Perhaps most well-known today for its jarringly out-of-place high-octane soundtrack by the inimitable Tim Follin, the game makes you play bizarre minigames to reveal a drawing, and then โ€” in traditional Pictionary fashion โ€” you have to guess what was drawn, against the clock.

A community quickly formed around โ€œCSS crimesโ€, making all sorts of wonderful things by pushing the platformโ€™s capabilities to the limit. Blackleโ€™s CSS Puzzle Box remains one of the most impressive creations on the site. I took part in this phenomenon too, making a zoetrope that shows your browserโ€™s refresh rate, a demoscene-esque twister, a recreation of the Star Wars opening sequence, a light hypnotic induction replicating the siteโ€™s UI, and more.

With the easter egg drawings starting to show up, people naturally started enquiring about the possibility of submitting their own

Iโ€™ve given a lot of thought to why the Pictionary bot in particular was so popular, and I think it ultimately comes down to the โ€œyes, andโ€ posting culture of Cohost. This could have just been a bot posting drawings from the original NES game. But people latched onto it and made their own game out of it. People loved it so much they wanted to contribute back to it, for no other reward than getting to share their work with their friends. People formed a community around it, and Iโ€™m so grateful that they did.

From The NES Pictionary Bot, In Memoriam ยท Lunaโ€™s Blog

I cant get over the main theme of the game, but a beautiful tale of how internet could still be a nice and beautiful place to share and hangout with others

November 29, 2024

Cheff kiss

November 29, 2024

And in that traffic, Iโ€™ve started recognizing people I see every day. We donโ€™t talk. Thereโ€™s no handshake. Itโ€™s not like weโ€™ve technically ever met. We just happen to be in the same dense traffic at the same time on a regular basis.

From More Human Than Human - Geoff Graham

November 29, 2024

Iโ€™ve enjoyed working with some of the most brilliant web engineers. All of them enjoy a good challenge. They want an excuse to flex some development muscle and show what they can do. In more than one case, the idea of using an existing tool, resource, platform, whatever, led to all-out shoutiong matches driven not by what the user wants, but by the unwillingness to back down from a challenge.

From โ€œWhere the people areโ€ - Geoff Graham

November 29, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred Debloating a Windows Bootleg into a Clean Install of XP - Is It Possible? by Michael MJD

๐Ÿ“– Starred What if typing on phones was fast? by Jake Zimmerman

๐Ÿ“– Starred Bug squash: An underrated interview question by Jake Zimmerman

๐Ÿ“– Starred Home-cooked web apps by Rach Smith’s digital garden

๐Ÿ“– Starred It’s okay to lower the bar by Rach Smith’s digital garden

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ The NES Pictionary Bot, In Memoriam by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐ŸŽฌ Lightning Talk: We Need To Talk About K8s by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred More Human Than Human by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred โ€œWhere the people areโ€ by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred The Adjunct Model of Teaching is Stupid and Broken by Geoff Graham

November 28, 2024

Not in the notification feed, not in any sort of hover pop-over, no growth-hacking โ€œput follow buttons everywhereโ€ nonsense, you basically had to visit someoneโ€™s profile to follow them. It made the act of following much more intentional.

I want people to follow me naturally because they enjoy my posts in particular

From Online following and Starter Packs ยท Lunaโ€™s Blog

November 28, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ Netscape, Now! by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ Drawing 88ร—31 buttons with Pixaki by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ Have you seen this bug? by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ท Look, a squirrel! by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ Macros in Rust, the wrong way by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ Online following and Starter Packs by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ท Look, a squirrels! by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred ๐Ÿ“ The hardest problem is naming things by Lunaโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred How Meta Brings in Millions Off Political Violence by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Shifting Identities by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Our family broke down and got a stinkinโ€™ puppy. by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred โ€œAbout 1 second remainingโ€ is the new beachball spinner. by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Pre-Publish Check by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Funny Container Query Defaults by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred CSS Meditation #8: .work + .life { border: 10px solid #000; } by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred How my son got into Duke by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Where I can enter my vote to go back to saying โ€œthe netโ€ instead of โ€œthe webโ€? by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Youโ€™re good enough, youโ€™re smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you. by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred CSS Meditation #6: The color space is always calc(rgb(0 255 0)+er) on the other side of the fence. by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred CSS Meditation #5: :where(:is(.my-mind)) by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred โ€œHey, will you build me a website?โ€ by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred CSS Meditation #2: Who gives a flying frick what constitutes a โ€œprogrammingโ€ language. by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred CSS Meditation #1: If the code works as expected and it fits your mental model, then itโ€™s perfect. by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“– Starred Artificial Listicles by Geoff Graham

๐Ÿ“น Starred Hamster balls + bowling = chaos! ๐Ÿคฃ Watch #HumanVSHamster streaming now on Max! ๐Ÿน๐ŸŽณ #MaxPartner by the Hacksmith

November 27, 2024

This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But itโ€™s not about catching criminals. Itโ€™s about catching vibes. A constant feed of whatโ€™s popping off in real-time.

From Note from September 30, 2024 | Chase McCoy

November 26, 2024

And it validates something Iโ€™ve been complaining about ever since the concept of โ€œApp Storesโ€ came up: this isnโ€™t about user convenience, but about controlling the whole experience and keeping people in your app. Itโ€™s โ€œtime spent in appโ€ KPIs over and over again.

Speech recognition and speech synthesis is something we already have on the platform level. An app running on the platform should integrate with these instead of competing. As a user, I have spent a lot of time setting up my environment to fit my needs. And I spent time and money to install and buy solutions I like to use for various tasks. Apps should recognise my efforts to cater the experience to my wants and needs and not offer me a lesser experience and sell it as innovation.

From Kirby apps and regressive enhancements | Christian Heilmann

November 27, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred A most unusual brightness by Chase McCoy

๐Ÿ“– Starred Note from September 30, 2024 by Chase McCoy

๐Ÿ“– Starred Ep. 1031 - Santa’s Dead by Safely Endangered

๐Ÿ“– Starred Return of the Front-end! by David Bushell

๐Ÿ“– Starred Mattโ€™s Malware by David Bushell

๐Ÿ“– Starred https://sarahcandersen.com/post/768314105977323520 by Sarah’s Scribbles

๐Ÿ“– Starred The Deno Package Paradox by David Bushell

๐Ÿ“– Starred The Path to Learn Web Development by Flavio Copes

๐Ÿ“– Starred I just pulled a 2006 and uploaded my holiday photos to Flickr with a Creative Commons Licence by Christian Heilmann

November 26, 2024

Having been in a startup situation where literally everything was deleted, you begin to understand that it ainโ€™t all about the code we write. The โ€œoutputsโ€; all the code, the designs, the processes, the testsโ€”theyโ€™re ultimately fleeting. It might be our choice, it might not, but itโ€™ll all be replaced or removed in time.

But the relationships you make, the impact you have in colleagues’ & customers’ lives, and the growth that occurs in your professional journey outlasts any fork in the road.

From All code is fleeting | Trys Mudford

November 26, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred Kirby apps and regressive enhancements by Christian Heilmann

๐Ÿ“– Starred Lossless Cut is my new favourite tool to cut parts from a video without any hassle by Christian Heilmann

๐Ÿ“– Starred The State of ES5 on the Web by Philip Walton

๐Ÿ“– Starred Hyper-responsive web components by Trys Mudford

๐Ÿ“– Starred BBC Sound Effects by Trys Mudford

๐Ÿ“– Starred All code is fleeting by Trys Mudford

๐Ÿ“– Starred Fixing Next.js’s CSS order using cascade layers by Trys Mudford

๐Ÿ“– Starred The Kind King by Jonathan Snook

๐Ÿ“– Starred AI is taking your job by Kent C. Dodds

๐Ÿ“– Starred Web Components for Password Input Enhancements by Articles by Ryan Mulligan

๐Ÿ“– Starred Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid by Articles by Ryan Mulligan

๐Ÿ“– Starred Musings on LLMs by Connor’s Blog

๐Ÿ“– Starred Native dual-range input by Muffin Man

๐Ÿ“– Starred https://lizclimo.tumblr.com/post/768074266200637440 by Hi, I’m Liz

๐Ÿ“– Starred Ep. 1030 - Meteor by Safely Endangered

๐Ÿ“น Starred the 7zip rabbit hole goes extremely deep. (1000’s of crashes) by Low Level Learning

๐Ÿ“น Starred Juegos con problemas que la comunidad corrigiรณ by Guinxu

๐Ÿ“น Starred Pelear sin tener ningรบn Pokรฉmon (Generaciรณn 2) by Guinxu

November 20, 2024

Good defaults make things easier to teach. They point to what the layout method is designed for. Flexbox is really designed for putting things into a line and distributing spare space. So that initial behaviour of putting all your things in a row is a great starting point for whatever you might want to do. It may be all you need to do. Itโ€™s not difficult as a teacher to then unpack how to add space inside or outside items, align them, or make it a column rather than a row. Step by step, from the defaults.

From Masonry and good defaults โ€“ Rachel Andrew

November 20, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred Masonry and good defaults by Rachel Andrew

๐Ÿ“– Starred Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git by bt

๐Ÿ“– Starred “This Key is Useless Now. Discard?” by bt

๐Ÿ“น Starred I like it Picasso ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ๐ŸŽจ #challenge #hacksmith #engineering by the Hacksmith

๐Ÿ“– Starred Ep. 1029 - Abduction by Safely Endangered

๐Ÿ“– Starred https://sarahcandersen.com/post/767679922464505856 by Sarah’s Scribbles

๐Ÿ“– Starred Day 109: the animation-composition property by All posts - Manuel Matuzoviฤ‡

๐Ÿ“– Starred Blogroll by David Darnes

๐Ÿ“– Starred Awesome Standalones by David Darnes

November 19, 2024

Call me oldschool, or even stupid, but I find everything a lot more rewarding when I put some effort into it. Using a pen for writing feels good. Music sounds deeper from the spinning on the turntable record. The time it takes to develop an analogue camera film makes a picture more memorable. But all this is a story for another article.

From Combating mental AI fog | pawelgrzybek.com

November 18, 2024

Am I an analog girly, or am I just a snob?

Probably both. I feel like the more experienced and โ€œdeepโ€ I get into tech, the more I retreat intoโ€ฆ low-tech. I enjoy pen and paper. I have fun with my typewriter. I want DVDs instead of streaming. I like using a point and shoot camera instead of just my phoneโ€™s camera.

I like not relying on the internet or some level of availability to be entertained or to do tasks. I like owning the things I own, and not thinking about what algorithms are watching me back. I like not being interrupted by notifications when Iโ€™m doing something.

From Analog girly

November 18, 2024

The result is bloated websites built by framework developers. And you can’t blame all the new developers for that. When all the job postings require framework experience, people joining the web dev world focus on becoming framework experts.

A dev knowing the web platform will produce great websites regardless of the tech stack. At the end, there’s “just” web stuff below all the framework magic, right?

From On being a “JavaScript framework developer”…

November 18, 2024

๐Ÿ“– Starred Losing is part of being a designer (but that doesnโ€™t have to be you) by Adam Silver

๐Ÿ“– Starred Analog girly by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred I fell asleep in a driverless car by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Sleep is the most magical thing in the world by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Side quests by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Voice lessons taught me that I should be… true to myself by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Why JavaScript variables don’t always update by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Building the Micro Journal by Cassidy Williams

๐Ÿ“– Starred Harris for President by inessential.com

๐Ÿ“– Starred On being a "JavaScript framework developer"… (#blogPost) by Stefan Judis

๐Ÿ“– Starred Processes and rules make code review less intimidating (#blogPost) by Stefan Judis

๐Ÿ“– Starred How to search for strings in Git commit additions or deletions (#tilPost) by Stefan Judis

๐Ÿ“– Starred Navigate your shell history with CTRL keys (#tilPost) by Stefan Judis

๐Ÿ“– Starred Earlier function parameters are available to default parameters (#tilPost) by Stefan Judis

๐Ÿ“– Starred What Is React.js? by Webbed Briefs

๐Ÿ“– Starred Time-based CSS Animations by yuanchuan.dev

๐Ÿ“– Starred Creating an electromagnet and sound wave learning environment by Justin Miller

๐Ÿ“– Starred How I increased my visibility by Kent C. Dodds

๐Ÿ“น Starred Narwhals Lyric Video by Weebl’s Stuff

November 17, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred Lasers vs Lightning- Which Is More Powerful? by Mark Rober

๐Ÿ“– Starred TypeScript enums and falsy values by Jack Franklin

๐Ÿ“น Starred unboxing more stolen USPS supplies by William Osman 2

๐Ÿ“– Starred Opposites in the Presidential Succession. by Matthew Felgate

๐Ÿ“น Starred As per my last emailโ€ฆ by Unnecessary Inventions

๐Ÿ“น Starred History Is Accumulating by Vsauce

๐Ÿ“– Starred [Video] Nix explained from the ground up by DasSur.ma on DasSur.ma

November 2, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred #sponsored With Google Photos, I can find all my wild projects. Should I even be near a 3D printer? by Emily The Engineer

๐Ÿ“น Starred How to Get Rid of Junk Mail by Emily The Engineer

๐Ÿ“น Starred You’ll NEVER Hear a Sonic Boom From a Rocket?? by Xyla Foxlin

๐Ÿ“น Starred How many fish does it take to pull my boat? by I did a thing

๐Ÿ“น Starred Dangerous RC Helicopter Experiments by PeterSripol

๐Ÿ“น Starred How on Earth does ^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ produce primes? by standupmaths

๐Ÿ“น Starred What do we know about Asteroid 314159 aka โ€˜Mattparkerโ€™? by standupmaths

๐Ÿ“น Starred DRIFT3 by omozoc

๐Ÿ“น Starred Supersmarties by Vihart

๐Ÿ“น Starred 4 Fireworks vs Metal Pot w/@MRINDIANHACKER by Mark Rober

October 26, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred That hippo’s gonna fly. โ–  Reverse Trivia 1x04 by The Technical Difficulties

๐Ÿ“น Starred New largest prime number found! See all 41,024,320 digits. by standupmaths

๐Ÿ“น Starred Modelรฉ un Pikachu 3D usando Bloc de Notas by Guinxu

๐Ÿ“น Starred Thank you for playing Wing Commander by Modern Vintage Gamer

๐Ÿ“น Starred kernel mode anti-cheat strikes again. by Low Level Learning

๐Ÿ“น Starred Let me know what I should call them. And if I can eat them… by Sam Barnett

๐Ÿ“น Starred itโ€™s FINALLY back! by Unnecessary Inventions

๐Ÿ“น Starred What’s Inside A Flame? by Vsauce

September 28, 2024

๐Ÿ“น Starred HPโ€™s $99 Tablet Fiasco by Michael MJD

๐Ÿ“น Starred Installing ReactOS Nightly on "Official" Hardware - Is It Any Good? by Michael MJD

๐Ÿ“น Starred What Makes a Game Feel Mysterious? by Mark Brown

๐Ÿ“น Starred recreating a cursed drink from the 1930’s by William Osman 2

๐Ÿ“น Starred I Thought this would be Safe! by colinfurze

๐Ÿ“น Starred Trucos para OCULTAR pantallas de carga en juegos by Guinxu

๐Ÿ“น Starred is this exploit over hyped? (9.8 CVSS btw) by Low Level Learning

๐Ÿ“น Starred The Body Deck by Vsauce

๐Ÿ“น Starred All microwaves should be designed this way tbh. by Unnecessary Inventions