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The contrast-color() function takes a and returns either black or white, whichever is the most contrasting color for that value. contrast-color() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Yep, I've played it. The new MindsEye mission called Blacklisted. The one which Mark Gerhard, CEO of Build a Rocket Boy, said would "share some of the evidence of the sabotage" he claims was instigated by a malevolent third party ...
Is Warp the first ‘open slop’ project? “Today we are announcing a fundamental change in how we build Warp: the Warp client is now open-source, and the community can participate in building it using an agent-first workflow managed by Oz, ...
You always find the new curl releases on the curl site! Release presentation Numbers the 274th release8 changes49 days (total: 10,761)282 bugfixes (total: 13,922)521 commits (total: 38,545)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)0 new curl ...
Turso, Neon, Polars, Databend, Materialize, DataFusion, InfluxDB, Quickwit and even ripgrep. Outside of DuckDB and PostgreSQL's core, most, if not all, the most-impactful projects in the database world are now
The winterer is out of the loop; they're not maintaining a position because they don't have a position to maintain. They can do work that takes longer than a quarter, longer than a year, longer than 5 years, because nobody ...
A Lightning Fast Kubernetes navigator.
If you are vibe coding and you don’t review any of the code, like a true vibe coder, you should build your system in Rust. I know, that’s a controversial statement. But hear me out. We will see how good ...
Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect action, ...
The Internet Archive has a new book: VANISHING CULTURE. (Digital copy is free.) According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published ...
My regular schedule of CSS and HTML tips will return after this brief look at the sorry state of the web and tech industry. It’s grim. “Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that… Alternative facts - Kellyanne ...
The new Steam Controller verdict is in: James likes it. And now it’s back out again, as Julian has also been poking and prodding at Valve’s made-for-PC controller ahead of its release on May the 4th. Has this second pair ...
Today's links Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe": How Disney killed the movies and took over the world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zappa v censorship; Chemistry set with no chemicals; Short cons; Mitsubishi's Dieselgate; "Bellwether." Upcoming ...
I spoke at Codemotion Madrid and had a blast!
GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was. Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrastructure I controlled. Later I moved projects to Bitbucket, back ...
We keep replaying the same human mistakes -bubbles, strongmen, scapegoats, and panics -because the operating system in our skulls hasn’t updated in ten thousand years.
A figure walks away from a cracking corporate tower toward humans connecting peer-to-peer/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp Hey all, I want to take a moment to clarify what I think is happening with jobs, AI, and tech in general right now. The common narrative ...
The cloud is convenient until it isn't. You upload your photos, sync your contacts, click through the cookie banners. Then prices go up again or you read about a family that lost their entire Google account over a medical photo ...
I’ve been listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks. The premise is fun and the story has its moments but I’d have given up if it wasn’t for the narrator Jeff Hays. I thought I was listening to a full ...
Kubernetes v1.36 promotes the ability to modify container resource requests and limits in the pod template of a suspended Job to beta. First introduced as alpha in v1.35, this feature allows queue controllers and cluster administrators to adjust CPU, memory, ...
replacements.fyi is a neat website that gives alternatives to 687 obsolete NPM packages. Crucially, it suggests modern JavaScript APIs and simple educational tips like how to check if a number is odd. This is from the Ecosystem Performance project that ...
Learn how to work around the Python machinery to resolve an explicit lazy import manually. A couple of articles ago I wrote about how you could inspect a lazy import. Apparently, you can use a similar trick to check the ...
My shim might give the powers that be another reason to say native support isn't necessary, or if lots of people use my :nth-letter hack in the wild, the browser gods might recognize the need to implement it for real. ...
Today's links The enshittification multiverse: It's a useful analogy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Every complex ecosystem has parasites; Prison for "attempted infringement"; When We Were Robots in Egypt; Golfing in The Blitz; Copyright vs privacy ...
The latest Intel processors, Core Ultra Series 3 a.k.a. Panther Lake, look awesome. They are fast in benchmarks, can consume very little power, enabling a full day of work and
A single figure at a peak with tendrils of light extending outward, faint silhouettes dissolving below/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp Let me try to explain these AI layoffs. The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% an...
Software brain says *Go faster; do more; the only mistake you can’t fix is having gone too slow.* Hardware brain says *Slow down; do less; focus; strive for perfection and never settle for less than excellence; mistakes are forever.*
I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with which we code, but it’s not making our software 10✕ better: Faster individuals don’t ...
Today Sabastian Sawe ran an historic sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. A marathon is around 42 kilometres, aka 26 miles in freedom units (we use miles in the UK too but not for running distances). I feel the record ...
80 years old and killing it.
Folding Ideas on YouTube has a fascinating two-part series: Why was I invited to Beast Studios? Beast Games 2 Strong/Smart: an Exhaustive Review I watch very little YouTube. I loath the algorithm game YouTubers feel like they must play. Content ...
Sundays are for realising that you aren't who you thought you were. You thought you were Jonathan Frakes. You thought you'd starred in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and 1995 video game Multimedia Celebrity Poker. You thought you'd played ...
Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other ...
