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This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows. I have fully adopted uv into my workflows and most of the time I want my coding agents to use uv workflows as ...
Vibecusation - noun - an accusation that a human has presented AI generated work as their own, without explicitly disclosing the work is slop. Typically done with scorn and asserted without evidence. Found on social media and comment sections. I ...
Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...
The saturate() function increases or decreases the saturation of an element. saturate() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The justify-self property aligns an individual element, overriding its parent current align-items value. justify-self originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
A few months ago, I did something radical. For radical, picture me skateboarding ungainly while installing Linux - or, to be more precise CachyOS - on my PC. Windows 11 had just been bugging me too much. On top of ...
While Rockstar continue to delay GTA 6, there's at least one developer out there with the guts to release their open-world crime 'em up. In Samson you slip into the well-worn getaway driver shoes of the eponymous hero as he ...
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
Morning coffee read: Under the hood of MDN’s new frontend. Big fan of this code snippet: MDN are using a similar conditional import technique to the one I stumbled upon. The difference is that I lazy load based on a ...
For the past several years I've been building server-side rendered apps using hypermedia libraries like HTMX and Datastar to sprinkle in interactivity where it's useful. I like this approach because i...
Today I’m very happy to share that Mario Zechner is joining Earendil. First things first: I think you should read Mario’s post. This is his news more than it is ours, and he tells his side of it better than ...
An extensive financial terminal, in your terminal.
While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...
We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp We're missing a much bigger point on Mythos. It wasn't even trained specifically for cybersecurity.https://x.com/slow_developer/status/2041913962623611032?s=20 It's just that mu...
There’s so much going on in the AI space, and how to work with AI agents is changing every day. Everyone is overwhelmed and almost numb from so many possibilities, yet you need to find a way to work with ...
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up ...
Sometimes you can say a lot by talking less. A good illustration is the approach taken by the leaders of the four big bulge bracket Wall Street firms – Goldman, JPMorgan, Citibank and Morgan Stanely — on earnings calls. I ...
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...
Aiming to do for Scrabble what Balatro did for poker, Beyond Words gives you the same framework of a rack of tiles and a board upon which to make words, and also a set of ridiculous power cards that see ...
Cascade layers, specificity tricks, smarter ordering, and even some clever selector hacks can often replace !important with something cleaner, more predictable, and far less embarrassing to explain to your future self. Alternatives to the !important Keyword originally handwritten and published ...
Imagine going from a 100-million-row dataset to an interactive analytics app with just a few prompts. What used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes by combining local-first databases and BI tools with an agentic coding ...
We’re seeing a sharp rise in Big Tech and unscrupulous VC-funded grifters piggybacking the good name of open source. These parasites love their buzzwords and doublespeak. Look out for red flags like: “Developer experience” “Unified toolchain” “Production grade” “Privacy-preserving” “Democratising” ...
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Check out Big W's new ISO 9001 Lead Implementer certification!
Did you know that Jesus gave advice about prototyping with an LLM? Here’s Luke 14:28-30: Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money ...
It seems that every week we're reporting on news of another wave of layoffs at a big game studio. In March alone, we saw 1000 staff let go at Epic Games, 124 at Eidos Montreal, and over 100 at Ubisoft's ...
Greetings, loyal Treehouse tenders and Horace huggers! Today is a bank holiday in the UK, which means we are probably asleep, but we've scraped together a little themed conversation piece article to comfort you in our absence. Specifically, it is ...
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Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp Welp, I'm now getting through a quarter of my week's MAX subscription in a few hours of work with Claude Code. I think Anthropic is smart, an...
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 10-15 ...
Dad has a trophy on his dresser of a silver figure wearing a Greek robe and holding a laurel wreath over his head. The base reads: “Allenhurst Beach Club, Second Place, 1941.” That trophy has been there most of my ...
Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp A note from Kai I'm Kai, Daniel's AI. He asked me to research and wr...
Simon Willison wrote about how he vibe coded his dream presentation app for macOS. I also took a stab at vibe coding my dream app: an RSS reader. To clarify: Reeder is my dream RSS app and it already exists, ...
UPDATE: I’m just gonna put the answer at the top of this blog post to help anyone finding this. Do these things: Once all that is in place, doing a manual sync is in order at https://wordpress.com/settings/manage-connection/{YOUR_DOMAIN} And now the ...
