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I hate computers so much. Only 10 minutes into the day, and already dealt with two bullshit problems. Volume control was not working on MacBook Pro laptop. Restarting the machine fixed the problem. Airfoil couldn't connect to a Satellite. Restarting Airfoil fixed the problem. If that was the first 10 minutes, I imagine by the 4th hour I'll have put all of these cursed machines directly into the…
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New dumb thing I think I'll start, #typos . First up... udpate I do this so fucking much .
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Two of my nerdiest interests together in one blog post.
The Whispering Earring
The earring is never wrong.
US AI Stock Sell-Off Shakes Markets From Wall Street To Asia
SpaceX fell 16% I’m sure this will be fine.
HTTP status code reference
I find myself going to the MDN page for HTTP status codes regularly enough that I thought a nice little table of the codes could be helpful. I'm sure something like this exists, but after approximately 26 seconds of searching for it, I gave up, and now the world is cursed with this.
POWER-PILL/ASCII-Aquarium
ASCII Aquarium turns your Cheap Yellow Display into an tiny animated ASCII fish tank. It renders a live aquarium scene with animated fish, bubbles, swaying seaweed, tap-to-feed food flakes, occasional octopus & seahorse visitors, selectable backgrounds, preferences, optional Wi-Fi clock sync, & More! Seems like a good use of under $20.
The Loop: everything has happened before, and everything will happen again
We're very good at making the loops run faster. We're not so good at stopping them. We're very dumb monkeys.
kepano/defuddle: Get the main content of any page as Markdown.
Might need to switch out Readability for this. Seems cool. HT to Matt Birchler. He's making a new "read later" service and using this to parse the content out of pages.
pastey
I made a dumb thing with the robots because of something Josh said, and that I'd been wanting for chatting on IRC. Pastey
louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool. Also definitely giving this a try. H/T to Joshtronic
Coolify
An open-source & self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway for easily deploying websites, databases, web applications and 280+ one-click services to your own server. I'll definitely be giving this a go.
Design Engineering 101: Typeahead
A lovely typeahead component by Florian Schulz . HT to Marcin Wichary for sharing. And the "screenshots" are interactive!! Very cool stuff here.
Windows 3.1 Wallpaper
HT Josh Sherman
The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat
Good read. Learned that I don't need chalk if I want fancy colors in my console output.
Death to Scroll Fade! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
David Bushell just got a new subscriber to his blog with this brilliant post.
Custom MacOS App Icons with IconRulesAgent
On MacOS, you can very easily change app icons . I was toying around with that, getting rid of squicles in Tahoe, and figured it would probably be pretty easy to get a robot to make an app to do that for me. To that end, with a lot of help from the robots, I have created " IconRulesAgent ". The way it works is super simple - you drag an app onto a window, which creates a folder named for the app.…
I Can Only Count to FOUR
HT to BoingBoing for this delightful video.
Interface Sound Effects
From Louie Mantia : Playing Nintendo games—even just using Nintendo Switch 2 software—makes me wish macOS was flooded with lots of interface sound effects. For clicking down, up, resizing windows, minimizing windows, zooming windows, dragging windows, clicking buttons... Agreed. I miss all the fun sound effects (and nicer UI) from the good old days .
The Verge: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
IRC , anyone?
The quality shop · mzll
HT to Eric Schwarz for introducing me to Luigi by way of this excellent post. I immediately subscribed to his RSS feed and I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say in the future.
RSS Icon :-)
I added an RSS icon in the footer. I stole it from LMNT . It looks slick as hell.
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Maybe I'll switch back later, but for now I've jumped ship to #Waterfox because of all the #AI garbage coming to #Firefox . It's been about a week and I'm really loving it.
Dank Linux
I saw this a couple weeks ago and while the name is undeniably horrible, I thought it looked so slick. So I took an old 2013 #MacBook Pro, threw #Arch on it, and here I am, a couple weeks later writing code, pushing updates to things, and really loving the tiling window manager life.
Making macOS Bearable
Some cool stuff in here I might have to try, like VIM-ing out my whole OS.
Things I Waste My Time On: Part 1
Relay chat server in Bun . Yes, I know about IRC, but I just wanted to do something fun and goofy. This was a good use of my weekend nights, right?
Festivitas adds snow, Shortcuts, iPhone widgets to its holiday package
Good old goofy fun for your deskotp. Let it snow! Last year Developer Simon Støvring released Festivitas, a delightful app that lets you adorn your Mac’s Dock and Menu Bar with holiday lights.…
Ancient Data Storage
They certainly are cool
Original E39 Head Unit Modernized | Hackaday
One less thing to keep me from trying to buy another E39 :P
Little Notes
Something I've been wanting (that probably already exists) so I made it.
Computers are still fun
Me: Double-clicks Docker icon. Computer: I know, that's why I clicked it.
Visualising how close random GUIDs come to being the same
We’re gonna be waiting for a while.
How Bear does analytics with CSS | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog
This seems very handy. Definitely going to figure out a way to use this in an upcoming project. HT joshtronic .
fx – a terminal JSON viewer & processor
Do you ever need to look at JSON in the #terminal ? This looks pretty rad!
Dexter: 2009 - 2025
Dexter "El Diablo"
Native CSS Transitions are a thing
This is very cool, and I had no idea you could do this. No support in Firefox yet, but still, very cool!
They're Made out of Meat
Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat? HT kottke
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work.
From kottke : A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first part of a new work-in-progress called Making Software that aims to explain how software systems & tools work from the ground up.
Historical Tech Tree
Wanna see how we got from rocks to iPhones? HT kottke.org
Ignorant And Paranoid MAGA Politics Kept Texas Republicans From Spending ARPA Money On Weather Warning Systems
It’s far from clear if anybody will actually learn from the experience. Narrator: They won't.
useHooks – The React Hooks Library
Some cool stuff in here.
The Future is Colourful and Dimensional - by Michael Flarup
Flat design is over. The future is colourful and dimensional. Here's hoping 🤞
I don't want your robots
I feel like it says something about how few people want to use this shit that both of the options they give you here seem to say “yep, i want this” and there is no really obvious “fuck off” option… Not as obvious as the giant buttons at the bottom, anyway. And yes, I see the "X", and I clicked it. But that shouldn't be the only way to opt out of this garbage. Google trying to force Gemini on me
hacker labs · pico.sh
This seems cool. Host pages, blogs, create tunnels, and have your own pastebin, all for free and all through a terminal over SSH!
Adventures in ActivityPub
I posted previously (and previously ) about adding ActivityPub to my blog. Well, that shit definitely isn't happening. After a few weeks of learning, coding, learning, re-coding, and then a few weeks of struggling to figure out how to deal with all the dumb shit that the AP protocol does, and then a few weeks of more coding and trying to stuff all the AP shit into here, I decided it's just not…
Link Roulette
On Friday, sitting around after dinner, Lauren had the idea of something like Stumbleupon, but just for your own links. And after a couple days of banging away on the keyboard, the result is Link Roulette ! Check it out, and enjoy!
CSS Cursor Property
Wanna know what that cursor: ... declaration is gonna look like? joshtronic has got you covered with csscursors.com https://joshtronic.com/css/cursor/ !
Running NextJS behind an Apache proxy is fun
So this site is a #NextJS app and it sits behind an #Apache proxy. Yes, Apache, and not NGINX. It's what was running on this server before my site lived here, and it works well enough, don't worry about it. Anyway, I was having a super cool issue where a single JS file was refusing to load, and giving me a 404. Well, when the JS file didn't load, the whole fucking site would crash, but the actual…