Good links: 21 January 2024(opens in new tab)
Curated river of news
Reader
Latest posts from blogs I follow
2877
entries
58
pages
The other SDLC(opens in new tab)
Right now I'm between farms and making computers do a think
How I deploy my Eleventy site to Neocities(opens in new tab)
Sending webmentions from a static site(opens in new tab)
213: Repeating Tests(opens in new tab)
If a test fails in a test suite, I'm going to want to re-run the test. I may even want to re-run a test, or a subset of the suite, a bunch of times. There are a few pytest plugins ...
React, where are you going?(opens in new tab)
“However, today I see two problems that make me enjoy React a little less and make me worry that new developers might be intimidated by it: ownership and complexity.”
Moving on from React(opens in new tab)
“After a false start with React in 2023, we’re now on a tech stack that we’re not fighting against and that maps better to our customers’ domain.”
Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For?(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 One question I’ve heard repeatedly from people getting started with their personal website is “what pages and sections – like blog, photos, about me – does my site need to have?” I asked myself the exact same ...
NGINX Basics and Setup(opens in new tab)
Introduction NGINX is a tool that can be used as a web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, streaming media files, application gateway, content caching, and so
212: Canon TDD - by Kent Beck(opens in new tab)
In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called "Test Driven Development by Example".In December of 2023, Kent wrote an article called "Canon TDD".With Kent's permission, this episode contains the full content of the article.Brian's commentary is saved for a followup ...
Kind of annoyed at React(opens in new tab)
“[...] I still reach for React when I want to build something somewhat complex, I just… wish I were happier about it when I do.”
The math exams of my life(opens in new tab)
The system is flawed The Romanian public education system, which, by the way, is free for everyone (Universities included), has its flaws. However, it is still one of the best in the world for making a handful of kids proficient ...
All Things Being Equalized(opens in new tab)
For my birthday, I got a new pair of speakers for my home office / home studio. After looking around for quite some time, I settled on the ADAM Audio T5V in the end. The T5Vs are affordable, entry-level studio ...
You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox(opens in new tab)
If you fit one of these criteria:
42 for 42(opens in new tab)
ol { list-style-position: outside; padding-left: 1em; } ol li { margin-bottom: 0.5em; } I’m turning 42 today and yes, I am as surprised about that number as you are. If 42 really is the answer to life, the universe, and ...
Tour De-Noise(opens in new tab)
Whether you are running online workshops, hosting a live stream, or recording audio or video content, optimal audio quality is absolutely essential. People in your audience might tolerate if your video is noisy or not perfectly sharp. But if your ...
Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element(opens in new tab)
Speculative Calendar Events(opens in new tab)
Designing tentative calendar events to solve complex scheduling problems
Nu Shell Is Cool(opens in new tab)
Converting a file is a common task and nu shell was the most intuitive way to do it.
Neovim + Sourcegraph Cody Plugin Integration(opens in new tab)
Introduction Have you ever used Sourcegraph's Cody? It is a great tool for developers, it is not just another LLM, it is tailored specifically for developers. C
What’s Too Good to Be True?(opens in new tab)
The web platform is changing rapidly these days. With every major browser release, more and more powerful features get added, many of which are based on previous input about what web developers need to build better for the web. One ...
2023 Review(opens in new tab)
The Two Reacts(opens in new tab)
UI = f(data)(state)
My Fave New Podcasts of 2023(opens in new tab)
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
An experimental pip subcommand for the Python Launcher for Unix(opens in new tab)
There are a couple of things I always want to be true when I install Python packages for a project:I have a virtual environmentPip is up-to-dateFor virtual environments, you would like them to be created as fast as possible and ...
The Best Comment Section on the Internet(opens in new tab)
Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, recently sat down with Tim Ferriss to talk about a bunch of different things. One of those things: blogging. It might not come as a surprise, but Matt described blogging as ...
Oh shit banners(opens in new tab)
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases(opens in new tab)
“It has been one and a half years since the last React release, far longer than any previous release took.”
Monitoring Indoor Air Quality with Prometheus, Grafana and a CO2 Sensor(opens in new tab)
Low indoor air quality - or high CO2 - negatively impacts cognitive performance, causes headaches, drowsiness and more. It's easy to fix though, just use a CO2 sensor and open a window from time-to-time. But why stop there, when you ...
Own Your Web – Issue 6: The Year of the Personal Website(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 At the beginning of this year, I wrote in a blog post which I titled The Year of the Personal Website: In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now ...
2023: Year Review(opens in new tab)
Introduction 2023, what a year! If you're a developer and haven't heard the word 'AI' a million times, where have you been? With the introduction of Chat GPT in
New Year, Same (Terrible) Mia(opens in new tab)
It wasn’t always a great year, but I’ve been moving the right direction. In 2024, the plan is to just keep moving. (maybe too literally)
Amazon's Silent Sacking(opens in new tab)
Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
Remembering the early 00s teen website scene(opens in new tab)
Choose optimism(opens in new tab)
React Server Components: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(opens in new tab)
“At the same time, React has done nothing (besides an abandoned experiment in 2019) to improve their pitiful client-side story. It is a legacy framework created to solve Facebook-scale problems with Facebook-scale resources, and as such is a bad fit ...
Ambient Co-presence(opens in new tab)
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
Wireguard Vpn Ansible(opens in new tab)
title: Create WireGuard VPN with Ansible tags: [ansible, security, vpn, devops] author: twimprine layout: post
Don’t Start Pull Requests from Your Main Branch(opens in new tab)
When contributing to other users’ repositories, always start a new branch in your fork.
2023: The year in lists(opens in new tab)
Historical Trails(opens in new tab)
Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
Own Your Web – Issue 5: For Everyone(opens in new tab)
Hi All! 🤗 In the previous issues, we looked at how you can choose a domain name, how a personal website can change your life, and what people are using to build their sites. But Matthias, I hear you say, ...
How To Choose A Career And Make It Sustainable(opens in new tab)
How to identify fitting work to you - avoid burnout, have meaning and enjoy work.
211: Stamp out test dependencies with pytest plugins(opens in new tab)
We want to be able to run tests in a suite, and debug them in isolation, and have the behavior be the same. If the behavior is different in isolation vs in a suite, it's a nightmare to debug. In ...
CSS @scope(opens in new tab)
The new @scope rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions. Bookmark from 12 Days of Web
Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon(opens in new tab)
I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
Ep 9: It's Pronounced "Zed Ess Haetsch", Austen(opens in new tab)
A fireside chat featuring new gear, old dotfiles, and updates on what we've been up to. Kiwi the puppy doesn't code Rust (yet), but she knows how to sit! Does she have the patience to sit through Jesse's Vim course, ...
Engineering progression for humans(opens in new tab)
