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🔥 Weekend Reading

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Weekend Reading — Torment Nexus is financially sound

Slirt "Don't forget to save enough SPACE for dessert... Nanu-nanu!" Tech Stuff Respinner For when you need React spinner components. Rebane 🤯 cursed CSS trick: use the Q unit instead of px, it looks almost the same and saves a character doxx You can now view Word

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Weekend Reading — Increase time in the bathroom

Real Life Bog Person "My SIL has informed me that this exists in Auburn WA. I have a new place to visit!" Tech Stuff Grila If you calendar a lot you're going to love this app: a keyboard-driven calendar. Pure CSS Tabs With Details, Grid, and

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Weekend Reading — 404 bragawatts

John S Russell "Where I post from." Tech Stuff Zod + TypeScript: Schema Validation Made Easy Learn how to use Zod, a TypeScript schema validation library that allows you to validate external data at runtime. abbiistabbii ftw you realise that pacman is short for Package Manager and you start

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Weekend Reading — Aggravation is observed

Wilhelm Gere "This should explain things" Tech Stuff Cursed Knowledge Immich shares their experience and I love that their product website (it's not a dev tool!) has this page. (via archiloque) You Should Write An Agent In the mantra of "you only think you understand

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November 1st, 2025 7 min read

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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October 25th, 2025 7 min read

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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October 18th, 2025 8 min read

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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October 11th, 2025 9 min read

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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