GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst

GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning

Vanilla CSS is all you need

You can get almost everything done with Vanilla CSS.

Oakland Doesn’t Need Saving — Dispatches from Raimondi

I love Oakland, and I am so excited to go to more Oakland B's games next year. The community around the team is so fun, and I didn't really get a chance to experience that until the end of the first season.

Why Self-host?

Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.

A Pragmatic Guide to Modern CSS Colours PT 1

An excellent guide to using modern CSS color techniques, that make it easy to spin up entire color systems with just a few properties

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

Millennial Cringe | Daniel Kolitz

A central premise of millennial life was that in exchange for accepting less—less money, less stability—one could stay young forever.

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

Really beautiful CSS + SVG effect

Big O

INCREDIBLE blog post from Sam, walking through what the big O notation is, with stunning visualizations.

Everything I know about good system design

This is a great short read that will get you asking the right questions about system design.

Gathering Grief | dansinker.com

An ode to houseplant programming 🪴

I really love this idea

Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’

What an absolute SHOCK. What was the last honest thing Matt Mullenweg said?

The internet used to be fun

Personal website manifestos

Experts have it easy

Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results. I say understudied and not unstudied, because it’s common knowledge that charging people for their time results in experts being paid less since they work faster, which is why experts charge more for their time.

Grok AI Is Replying to Random Tweets With Information About 'White Genocide

Elon Musk's AI is obsessed with the South African conspiracy theory.

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Hyper-Typing

I am *not* a hyper-typer, but I'm always fascinated when I open a types file and they are WILDLY DIFFICULT to parse

A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month | bryan newbold | WhiteWind blog

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Deno’s Decline (6 Regions and Falling)

The one where I nosey through rather telling git commits