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Instead of our real launch blog post, my little I should probably mention this on my personal website post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I loved about CodePen was just being able to try out something really quick and simple. But the new interface makes me feel [ ]
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is going to happen any day now. It s an Outburst Flood or GLOF ( glacial lake outburst [ ]
Email from Apple: We’re reaching out to let you know that the iPhone Upgrade Program is coming to an end. Thank you for being a loyal member. Awwww. Sad trombone. I ve been on this program for as long as I can remember. Every year you just send back your old phone and get the new [ ]
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn t the place to describe every detail of what we did and why we did it. If you re interested, perhaps our Why 2.0? podcast or the What s [ ]
Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It s not a conscious choice; just how it shook out for me. Via the internet, I “know” a couple of people who are consciously movie-only. Khoi Vinh does [ ]
Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It s a science experiment akin to baking soda vinegar volcano, freezing a banana in liquid hydrogen and shattering [ ]
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave s I don t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation and Simon s I will not publish anything that takes someone else [ ]
I ve long been envious of my friends with sweet sleeve tattoos. It s a cool place for a tattoo. You get to see it yourself a lot. Some of it sticks out from a rolled-up shirt-sleeve which is fun and mysterious. You ve got a decent amount of real estate to work with. You get to showcase [ ]
This is the stock look of my 2021 Sprinter van front console area: If it s not obvious, there s no great place for a phone. You ve got the cup holders. Those are actually sorta workable, except for this boss battle: wired-only CarPlay. Wired CarPlay is not ideal, but that s all this van has. I expect upgrading [ ]
I got something I ve wanted for years and years! A camper van! I m a camper van guy now! It s a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and even more technically a Winnebago Revel. I scoured Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and RV-specific sites for a long time drooling over these things. I ve rented a half dozen of them on Ourdoorsy over [ ]
What s up with this? The spirit, of course, is I want my Google Reader back. I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would probably not be as cool as we remember. That was a long-ass time ago and web software just wasn t as [ ]
Mine did. Like this: I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could add a theme.json file to the root of your theme, and put some typography basics only [ ]