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marcel, 2 months ago to random

I hope Cal Newport doesn't end our very one-sided friendship over this.

https://marcel.io/library/slow-productivity-cal-newport

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

💗 A rock that links to a website. https://spencerchang.substack.com/p/touching-computers

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Scheduling an 8am meeting after a time change was the height of hubris.

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

> This isn’t what everyone feared, which is AI replacing humans by being better—it’s replacing them because AI is so much cheaper.

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

📝 Vibe Check №31

https://daverupert.com/2024/03/vibe-check-31/

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

This post by @nikitonsky fills me with a special kind of angst. We are so far off the mark on what's acceptable or even necessary in terms of kilobytes and complexity.

https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Great conversation between @hankgreen and @nilay_patel on Decoder about the future of publishing, websites, the fediverse, and the pressure to give free content to someone else's (Elon's) website.

/via @nocksock

https://www.theverge.com/24087834/hank-green-decoder-podcast-google-youtube-web-media-platforms-distribution-future

Meyerweb, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Trying to draw multiple rotated images onto an HTML canvas is CURSED. All the references I find provide code that I copy in and use exactly as told and it literally DOES NOT WORK as the references promise.

I was opposed to canvas when it was sprung on us, but for abstract standards process reasons. If I’d known this was how it was built, I’d have campaigned for it to be burned to ash and the earth beneath it salted with cobalt-60. WORST. DRAWING. SYSTEM. EVER.

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Not to be a total dork, but I did literally major in Japanese in college and these new Vertical Writing Mode versions of inputs are awesome. It brings a lot of restoration to languages that were forced to anglicize due to early computers.

(I also love how the file input is still fucked up in every browser)

https://webkit.org/blog/15063/webkit-features-in-safari-17-4/

/via @jensimmons

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

🚧 [WIP] Prototyped/built out a page for all the good podcasts with self-contained seasons or story arcs that I've listened to over the years. I love this media format so much.

Preview: https://daverupert.com/limited-runs

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Hills I will die on...

• Simplicity Hill
• We Need Less Nuance Hill
• Death Hill, probably
• You should be able to buy one day's worth of antibiotics over the counter Hill because my kids never get sick at a normal time, it's always Friday at midnight Hill and now we're paying extra for the danged Urgent Care Hill. It's stupid Hill.
• It's okay to be wrong Hill
• Ms. Lauryn Hill MTV Unplugged No. 2.0

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Vision Pro return rates
Vision Pro avg time on device
Vision Pro week over week usage
Vision Pro ska band app like Riker’s jazz club on the holodeck

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Web developers over ~35 years old, can we chat for a second? Over here... everyone else you can keep scrolling.

I got some bad news. No one cares that we used to build entire websites with tables. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's our favorite story to tell. Same goes with floats. Flexbox has been in every browser since 2012. Grid since 2018. When we talk about the old ways we just sound old.

simevidas, 2 months ago to random

padding: top RIGHT bottom LEFT;
padding-inline: LEFT RIGHT;

Hm.

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

My daughter (8yo) came home from school and recited π to the 28th decimal.🤯

davatron5000, 2 months ago to random

Had a goal this year to write for other publications, so I'm doing it. First post over on the FrontendMasters Boost blog.

📝 Capo.js, a five-minute trick to give your website a boost.

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/capo-js-a-five-minute-web-performance-boost/

davatron5000, 3 months ago to random

📝 New how-to post! "How to get on a podcast"

https://daverupert.com/2024/02/how-to-get-on-a-podcast/

zachleat, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Generative.
—@beep https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/generative/

A collection of quotes on automation and artificial intelligence.

melanie, 3 months ago to random

Trying to find a good place in my daily routine to read articles and not really satisfied with anything yet. This is where a commute was actually useful.

When do other WFH types work this into your routine?

davatron5000, 3 months ago to random

@jensimmons @annevk @jondavis I maybe have something messed up on my end but on a clean install of Safari TP 189, I can't get those HTML switch demos to render correctly, even with the ::thumb and ::track flag on.

Beyond that the post asked for feedback and as a small feature request, it would be nice to be able to "detect" support for input[switch] from CSS so I could style based on feature support.