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πŸ”₯ Weekend Reading

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Weekend Reading β€” A server raclette

MTV Rewind If you miss MTV from back when it was a TV station that plays music, aka the good old days. Tech Stuff dbreunig/whenwords This is seriously cool. A library that provides timeago ("in 3 days"), duration ("2h 30m"), parse_duration, human_date ("

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Weekend Reading β€” So close to the end of the world

Laura Manach Tech Stuff Convert & Compress When you need to process a batchload of files: convert them to a different format, limit their width/height, compress with specific quality loss, etc. (* To make sure my webapp is performing well, I run a script that goes through all files in

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Weekend Reading β€” Where are all the coffee filters?

Volpeon "Make yourself a little foxxo companion" Tech Stuff TapHouse Manage Homebrew form the convenience of a GUI with single-click installs, doctor and cleanup tools, auto update, menu bar mode, and more. Mise Simplifies your dev setups by managing runtimes, env vars, tasks, Docker, GitHub Actions, etc. I

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Weekend Reading β€” A double young-man

Mabelz Tech Stuff BrewServicesManager Manage Brew services from the menu bar. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields New to me and quite useful: The Sec-Fetch-Site header can have one of four values: * same-origin, when the request comes from the same origin as the target server * same-site, when the

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December 20th, 2025 11 min read

Weekend Reading β€” Sparkling spaces

ARGVMI~1.PIF "Well, you can't say you weren't warned." Tech Stuff How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents Yes. JustHTML is about 3,000 lines of Python with 8,500+ tests passing. I couldn't have written it this quickly without the

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December 13th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading β€” This heater is from space

Street Art Utopia "Painted Octopus! By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick, Ireland." Tech Stuff Building a Toast Component This is the story of Sonner, why they came up with that name, how they managed animation and stacking, momentum-based gestures, and more. I love Sonner, the API is so

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December 6th, 2025 9 min read

Weekend Reading β€” The β€œCan that wait till January?” club

David Zinn "Claude’s secret to surviving winter is having a grandma who knits." Tech Stuff W4G1/multithreading The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript. Supports modern browsers, Node.js, Deno, and Bun. voici.js Print tables on the terminal β€” more evolved than console.table with sorting,

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November 29th, 2025 9 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 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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November 22nd, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading β€” 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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