Vibe Check №40 🔗
Another hot Fall in Texas. No notable rain since June. Air-conditioning humming. Water bill up. Backyard is a dust bowl from the dogs tearing up all t [...]
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Lots to shout about in Quiet UI 🔗
As President of Web Components, it’s my duty to publicly comment on every Web Component library and framework that exists. Today I’m taking a look at [...]
The killer feature of Web Components 🔗
One unsung feature in the web components space that I don’t think gets enough attention is the Custom Elements Manifest initiative. I think it’s the k [...]
Why I hate the MVP car 🔗
I have a love-hate relationship with “the MVP car”, that classic illustration that shows us the RIGHT and WRONG way to build a product. To be fair, I [...]
Many years on the job and I still don't get it. 🔗
I’m coming up on 20 years of professional web development and I still don’t get it sometimes. I tend to measure myself or view work productivity throu [...]
“Why would anybody start a website?” 🔗
Nilay Patel sat down for a Decoder interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott to talk about NLWeb, an open source effort to allow an LLM-style indexing [...]
Git diagramming "The Weave" 🔗
We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has “the best words”: I went to an Ivy League school. I’m v [...]
Limiting YouTube to a Single Tab 🔗
This week I decided to go nuclear on my bad YouTube habit. I installed a plugin called Tab Limiter that lets me limit youtube.com to one tab at a time [...]
Classifiers and cosmotechnics 🔗
I’ve been playing around with Midjourney for work and the one thing that makes Stable Diffusion cool and useful to me is the --sref flag to summon res [...]
Vibe Check №39 🔗
In the middle of the night on the morning of July 4th, a storm parked over the Texas Hill Country and caused the Guadalupe river to rise more than 25 [...]
All the concerns that make you a boring developer 🔗
I was thinking this morning about how once you understand that your technology choices have security, performance, and accessibility considerations yo [...]
Theater UX 🔗
I saw this summer’s Marvel movie in the theater on Sunday. A bit of a last minute idea so we ended up going to the “legacy” movie theater across the h [...]
A modest proposal for new holidays to manage your digital life 🔗
The cost of being online is getting too damn high and I’m tired of pretending it’s possible to fit these tasks into a normal life. That’s why I’d like [...]
A fiscal recalibration 🔗
After all our summer trips I buckled down last weekend and did some budgetting and I’ve realized I have to update the spreadsheet in my head. Here’s h [...]
The Economy? He died five years ago. 🔗
I hold a conspiracy theory the global economy died five years ago during Covid. It’s been on life support through stimulus checks and flash tech hype [...]
Easy sci-fi rectangles with corner-shape 🔗
In Chromium 139, CSS gets a new corner-shape property which unlocks some cool new CSS tricks. Most notably it gives us “squircles”, the mathematical s [...]
Before I go: Always buy the $200 Yamaha 🔗
I don’t have much life advice but I do know one thing: Always buy the $200 Yamaha guitar. If you’re thinking about it, do it. Talk to any guitarist yo [...]
A social media ethos 🔗
I’m trying to come up with an ethos of how I want to use social media. What rules and constraints do I put around it. This is a living document. Rules [...]
The Pyramid of Merit 🔗
There’s one quote from Twilight of the Elites (Chris Hayes, 2013) that has stuck with me since reading the book earlier this year. In sharing his expe [...]
Productivity traps I fall into regularly 🔗
There’s some productivity traps I fall into on a regular basis. They all tie into my personal flavor of ADHD but it’s not totally fair to blame the ol [...]