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🔥 Weekend Reading

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Weekend Reading — Cloud outages will continue until morale improves

Kevin Beaumont Tech Stuff I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong I'm using Alabaster to see how I like it (PS it's an extension, not a theme): The problem with that is, if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out. Your eye adapts and

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Weekend Reading — More relevant ads

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures Collection of amazing photos for your enjoyment. Tech Stuff Your data model is your destiny Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it right.

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Weekend Reading — And a ghostty October to you

The Autistic Innovator "Someone didn't think that design through" Tech Stuff LaunchOS Launchpad is back! Not my favorite UI, I never cared to use Launchpad, but I know a few people who swear by it, and now you can brew install launchos on your macOS 26.

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Weekend Reading — Prime minister of France for 15 minutes

Lizzy "You guys i did a thing" Tech Stuff Folder Quick Look fixes an all-time Mac grievance for free This is pretty slick, very useful, and free to use. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust AI Coding Agents Mirrors my experience as well. Differnet problems, different

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October 4th, 2025 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Ancient Ruins

link (t)wink Tech Stuff How I Use AI An ever growing list of ways in which David Bauer uses AI for work, life and play. Includes some interesting prompts. I took one to help Claude write for brevity. Nine HTTP Edge Cases Every API Developer Should Understand If you&

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September 27th, 2025 10 min read

Weekend Reading — KVICK SÖRT

KVICK SÖRT Tech Stuff Tangled Interesting 🤔 If GitHub bumped into Bluesky, a social-enabled git collaboration platform using atproto. LLM Rankings: The New Battleground Welcome to the mention economy! If you want to appear in AI search results, your brand name has to show up often, in credible places, alongside experts

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September 20th, 2025 10 min read

Weekend Reading — The Yeet Sheet

Laura Manach Tech Stuff How to keep package.json under control With the latest npm hacks adding a cooldown period to installs should be regarded as standard security practice. Now available in pnpm, npm-check-updates and hopefully other package management tools. Your First 10 Users > Your First 10 Features: Hard

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September 13th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading — The battle at Git's Hub

elle "All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes" Tech Stuff sonner When you want a nicely designed React toast component. I just started using it in my project and it's pretty slick looking with an elegantly simple API. Apple’s

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September 6th, 2025 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Geiger counter

brettezeleliquide Spoonbill bird in flight. Tech Stuff Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran The road from 8-bit Assembly to English-as-Code: This gives an entirely new meaning to Knuth’s “literate programming”: Rather than interspersing natural language specification and its corresponding artificial language implementation in a story over space (the page

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