Dan's links

Flexbox Labs

flexboxlabs.netlify.app

Flexbox Labs is a visual tool for learning and experimenting with CSS Flexbox. It lets you adjust layout settings in real-time, view changes instantly, and export the HTML/CSS code.

css,visualisation,webdev

223.

Effective Go

go.dev/doc/effective_go

Настольное пособие по тому, как писать в go-way стиле

code_style,go

222.

The blissful zen of a good side project

joshcollinsworth.com/blog/the-blissful-zen-of-a-good-side-project

It doesn’t matter what the project is; it matters that it is.

You don’t need to know where it’s going to lead. For that matter, it doesn’t have to lead anywhere. Nothing ever has to come of it. It’s ok if this project never even exists, as far as anyone else is concerned. Failure isn’t failure; it’s part of the process. It’s done when you’re done with it.

So whatever your side project is: I encourage you to pick it up, and let that part of you exist (again).

hobby,mindset

Reposted 221.

28h Days: year 1 update

sidhion.com/blog/28h_days_update_1

health,mindset,sleep

Reposted 220.

Hive Puzzles vol. 1

gripot.se/hive/HivePuzzles_vol1.pdf

Hive the board game puzzles. A notation for games is also introduced.

via Optozorax

board_game,hive,pdf

Reposted 219.

Play Hive Like a Champion

tesera.ru/images/items/2372481/ingersoll_randy_play_hive_like_a_champion_strategy_tactics_a.pdf

Wow so advanced

via Optozorax

board_game,book,hive,pdf

Reposted 218.

After reading Blue Period, Nina got inspired and invested time into learning how to draw, following guidelines from a book. She shared her learnings from the journey. Very inspiring! Can I draw? Should I learn how to?

art,education

217.

use pc using without mouse

mouseless.click

Splits whole screen by named squares and moves cursor there.
Note: Windows and Linux support are still in development.
explanation: https://youtu.be/FYV4HbW2XCI

desktop,gui,mouse

Reposted 216.

Life Altering Postgresql Patterns

mccue.dev/pages/3-11-25-life-altering-postgresql-patterns

database,postgres,sql

215.

Beginner Full-Body Workout

www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/beginner-fullbody-workout.html

Do this full body split 3 times a week. The goal is to get your form down pat on the most basic and most important exercises in the gym.

workout

214.

JSON to Go

mholt.github.io/json-to-go

Tool to convert JSON into Go structures.

go,json,tool

213.

A system to organise your life

johnnydecimal.com

Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress.

file_system,life,organizer

212.

If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves

I like the idea, but my laziness makes me avoid any non-automatic methods. I’d prefer a format similar to Mycomarkup or Markdown, but with built-in support for embedding images and other binary content, turning a web article into a single file. I’m aware of data: images in Markdown, but they’re not very convenient to use.

archive,data_hoarding,markdown,markup

Reposted 211.

Marginalia Search Engine - Marginalia Search

marginalia-search.com

Marginalia got a new design and a new domain.

search_engine

Reposted 210.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About HTML

aartaka.me/falsehoods-html

html,web

Reposted 209.

WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

joeyh.name/blog/entry/WASM_Wayland_Web_WWW

Author proposes to replace modern browsers with the following architecture. You make HTTP requests, server return you WASM blobs, they get executed. No built-in DOM.

DOM and its three languages are among the best technologies ever made, despite being so misused. It not being the default way will probably be disastrous. Think about accessibility!

But the idea is cool 🤔

browser,wasm

208.

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git

What git config settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.

config,dotfile,git

207.

SvgPathEditor

yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor

editor,svg,webapp

Reposted 206.

Red Blob Games: Hexagonal Grids

www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons

Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids in games

gamedev,grid,hexagon

Reposted 205.

Providing HTML Content Using Htmx

docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/how-tos/providing-html-content-using-htmx.html

HTMX in PostgREST!

create or replace function api.index() returns "text/html" as $$
  select $html$
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    ...
    </html>
  $html$;
$$ language sql;

database,htmx,postgres

Reposted 204.

ntfy.sh | Push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST

ntfy.sh

ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, and/or using a REST API.

curl \
  -d "Backup successful 😀" \
  ntfy.sh/mytopic

Free notifications!

programming,webdev

203.

Calculating Empires

calculatingempires.net

A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Very detailed visualisation of technology, science and culture that lead to the current state of world.

technology,visualisation

202.

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

danieldelaney.net/chat

ai,dev,ui

201.

Waydroid

waydro.id

A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on regular GNU/Linux systems running Wayland based desktop environments.

android,container,emulator

200.

sysz - An fzf terminal UI for systemctl

github.com/joehillen/sysz

sysadmin,systemd,tool,tui

199.

bin - effortless binary manager

github.com/marcosnils/bin

Manages binary files downloaded from different sources

cli,tool

197.

Quantum computing for the very curious

quantum.country/qcvc

Learn and understand quantum computing with built-in spaced repetition. I really like this method of learning and would like to see more courses that use this method and tech about some programming concepts.

learn,quantum_computing,spaced_repetition

196.

А как собеседоваться?

vas3k.club/post/15768

job

194.

How I ship projects at big tech companies | sean goedecke

seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship

Shipping is really hard and you have to make it your main priority
Shipping doesn’t mean deploying code, it means making your leadership team happy
You need your leadership team to trust you in order to ship
Most of the essential technical work is in anticipating problems and creating fallback plans
Scale back your implementation work as you approach launch so you’re free to jump on last-minute problems
You should constantly ask yourself “can I ship right this second?”

management,programming

193.

Create every day

jihad.house/notes/create-every-day

Being prolific forces you to take notice. Taking notice develops your taste.

blogging,mindset

192.

Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492508

Really intresting comments

This question reminds me of the first time I met a blind programmer. I asked him how he managed to code, and he replied with something that stayed with me: a good programmer should organize software in such a way that every piece of code has a clear and logical place. The organization should be so intuitive that anyone could build a mental model of the structure and navigate it easily, even without seeing it.

code_editor,code_style,hn,programming

Reposted 191.

Strategies for Minimizing the Total Cost of Computer Ownership

cheapskatesguide.org/articles/cost-strategies.html

A few basic rules for buying and using computers can save anyone significant amounts of money and produce the confidence required to try new things with computers.

computer,sustainability

190.

One big choice shapes a hundred more

sive.rs/ripple

Knowing the consequences I want, what choice would create them? What big choice would nudge a hundred others that way?

choice,life,mindset

189.

Tiger Style

github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/a43f2205f5335cb8f56d6e8bfcc6b2d99a4fc4a4/docs/TIGER_STYLE.md

Our design goals are safety, performance, and developer experience. In that order.

Contrary to popular belief, simplicity is also not the first attempt but the hardest revision

code, like steel, is less expensive to change while it's hot.

Safety

NASA's Power of Ten — Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code

Use only very simple, explicit control flow for clarity.
Put a limit on everything. Fail Fast
Assertions detect programmer errors. The only correct way to handle corrupt code is to crash.
Assertions are a safety net, not a substitute for human understanding.
- Build a precise mental model of the code first.
- encode your understanding in the form of assertions,
- write the code and comments to explain and justify the mental model to your reviewer,
- and use VOPR as the final line of defense, to find bugs in your and reviewer's understanding of code.
No memory may be dynamically allocated (or freed and reallocated) after initialization.
Declare variables at the smallest possible scope, and minimize the number of variables in scope.
Good function shape is often the inverse of an hourglass: a few parameters, a simple return type, and a lot of meaty logic between the braces.
Centralize control flow. When splitting a large function, try to keep all switch/if statements in the "parent" function, and move non-branchy logic fragments to helper functions.
Centralize state manipulation. Let the parent function keep all relevant state in local variables, and use helpers to compute what needs to change, rather than applying the change directly.

Developer Experience

Add units or qualifiers to variable names, and put the units or qualifiers last, sorted by descending significance. latency_ms_max rather than max_latency_ms.
Callbacks go last in the list of parameters.
Order matters for readability (even if it doesn't affect semantics). On the first read, a file is read top-down, so put important things near the top. The main function goes first.
Don't overload names with multiple meanings that are context-dependent.

code_style,programming,system_design

Reposted 188.

Digitizing All Your Paper Stuff

karl-voit.at/2015/04/05/digitizing-paper

note-taking,ocr,storage

Reposted 187.

This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web

jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last

good_web,sustainability

186.

Markwhen

markwhen.com

A markdown-like journal language for plainly writing logs , gantt charts , blogs , feeds , notes , journals , diaries , todos , timelines , calendars or anything that happens over time .

markdown,markup,note-taking,timeline

185.

How to Use Tags

karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags

Use as few tags as possible.
Limit yourself to a self-defined set of tags.
Tags within your set must not overlap.
By convention, tags are in plural.
Tags are lower-case.
Tags are single words.
Keep tags on a general level.
Omit tags that are obvious.
Use one tag language.
Explain your tags.

howto,rules,tags

184.

Пишем плагины для Obsidian

habr.com/ru/articles/861230

Статьи предназначены для максимально легкого вкатывания в плагинописание для Obsidian.
Официально документация Obsidian настоятельно рекомендует использовать TypeScript и npm и использует только такой подход в своем GitHub с примерами. Я же в свою очередь утверждаю, что если вы хотите просто сесть и написать малюсенький плагин, у вас нет необходимости даже в этом стеке.

howto,js,obsidian,plugins

Reposted 183.

Managing Digital Files (e.g., Photographs) in Files and Folders

karl-voit.at/managing-digital-photographs

file_system,naming,photo

Reposted 182.

викторианское счастье

ladykosha.ru/happiness/20210604111919-викторианское_счастье.html

happiness,life,mindset

Reposted 181.

Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data

lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/10/30/make-it-ephemeral

So true

software

180.

How I configure my Git identities

www.benji.dog/articles/git-config

How to use different git identities for different projects

config,dotfile,git

179.

RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header

www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab

Some users have expressed discomfort when a knife is plunged into their chest, and this header allows those users to express their personal preferences.

bad_web,parody,privacy

178.

World Wide Website

oyaswmi.net

with love for Experiments Lain

This site is a love letter to the internet, to Neocities, and to my personal intrests.

aestetic,good_web,lain

177.

Super cool looking personal site

caitsith.neocities.org/myhomepage

It has aesthetics associated with 90s and 2000s internet.

aestetic,design,good_web

176.

Nekoweb - free static website hosting service

nekoweb.org

Social media is too limiting. We believe that everyone should be able to freely express themselves in their own little corner of the web, without having to worry about things like algorithms, tracking, or advertisements.
Nekoweb is free of any advertisements, and is run completely by donations from its users.

aestetic,hosting,static_websites

175.

Hyrum's Law in Golang

abenezer.org/blog/hyrum-law-in-golang

With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.

programming

Reposted 174.

FutureRack

futurerack.info/main.php

Server racks as home furniture.

furniture,home_design

173.

Testcontainers - Unit tests with real dependencies

testcontainers.com

Testcontainers is an open source library for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that can run in a Docker container.

docker,programming,testing

172.

Все, что вы не хотели знать про Юникод, но придется

blo.gepar.do/v0/unicode.html

СЛОЖНО, СЛОЖНО, ВСЕ ОЧЕНЬ СЛОЖНО, КРАЙНЕ ЗАПУТАНО И ЧРЕЗВЫЧАЙНО НЕИНТУИТИВНО
ВАВИЛОНСКАЯ БАШНЯ БЫЛА ОШИБКОЙ
КОМПЬЮТЕРЫ ТОЖЕ
ААААААА, ПОЧЕМУ ЭТО ВСЕ ВООБЩЕ СУЩЕСТВУЕТ
ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСТВО СОЗДАЛО МОНСТРА, КОТОРОГО НЕ ПОНИМАЕТ 99.99% ЛЮДЕЙ, НО ТЕМ НЕ МЕНЕЕ, ПОВСЕМЕСТНО ИСПОЛЬЗУЕТ
КТО-НИБУДЬ, ПЕРЕВЕДИТЕ ВСЕ ЯЗЫКИ МИРА НА ОБЫЧНУЮ ЛАТИНИЦУ БЕЗ ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫХ ЗНАЧКОВ И ЗАКОПАЙТЕ ВСЮ ЭТУ СЛОЖНОСТЬ
ĄÄÃÂÅĂÁÀ!!!¡!ꜝ‼İ

encoding,font,unicode,utf-8

171.

Staticcheck

staticcheck.dev

Using static analysis, it finds bugs and performance issues, offers simplifications, and enforces style rules.

go,tool

Reposted 170.

Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite

sqlite.org/rsync.html

backup,sqlite

169.

Монитор для чувствительных глаз — алгоритм подбора и один параметр, о котором Вы уже скорее всего забыли

habr.com/ru/articles/855812

display,ergonomics,health,workspace

168.

Jujutsu — новая система контроля версий

habr.com/ru/articles/853416

Отмена любого действия.
Поддерживает чтение и запись в Git remote
Легко переписывать историю коммитов, rebase становится тривиальным, коммиты (патчи) можно спокойно перемещать между ветками, конфликтов меньше

git,vcs

167.

Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452

It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.
Replacing a black plastic spatula with a steel or silicone option is an easy way to cut down on at least part of one’s daily dose of hormone disruptors

food,health

Reposted 166.

Does the Dog Die?

www.doesthedogdie.com

Trigger warnings for movies, TV, books, video games and more!

cinema,health

165.

Timezones are weird. But only finitely so

ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones

I’m gonna show you some weird timezones. In fact, the weirdest timezones.
To learn how their weirdness is represented in software, we’ll look at the raw timezone files that all software ultimately relies on.

timezones

164.

No More Alarm Clocks

ajkprojects.com/nomorealarmclocks

I’ve completely eliminated the alarm clock from my morning routine for about six months. The biggest impacts it's had on my life are: I’ve become a morning person. I wake up feeling great and feel less sleepy during the day.

health,shedule,sleep

163.

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design

os,unix,windows

Reposted 162.

Buckwheat Tea

grimgrains.com/site/buckwheat_tea.html

Из гречки можно чай делать...

good,recipe,tea

Reposted 161.

FFmpeg - Ultimate Guide | IMG.LY Blog

img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg

This guide covers the ins and outs of FFmpeg starting with fundamental concepts and moving to media transcoding and video and audio processing providing practical examples along the way.

audio,cli,editing,guide,software,tool,video

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