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๐Ÿ”ฅ Weekend Reading

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Weekend Reading โ€” Sell your soul for cuteness and regret nothing

Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr โ€œ1983 was a wild time.โ€ Tech Stuff Marginalia Search A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial web sites. And they do have some interesting filters: blogs, academia, small web, plain text, tidle, etc. Operates out of Sweden. Renaud Chaput ๐Ÿ‘ We also migrated from Jest to vitest, and

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Weekend Reading โ€” Turbo round and round

Silicon Valley perplexed by traffic innovation: the turbo roundabout Tech Stuff Inngest Durable functions that stand for job queues, save state, run cron jobs, and all the other plumbing your project might need. Restate Break up your app into multiple steps and use Restate to track them, retry failed transitions,

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Weekend Reading โ€” Run time/rest time

Tech Stuff Bored Spreadsheet RTO got you down? Stuck in the cubicle? Boss hovering? You can now play classic games that look like you're working on a spreadsheet! โ€œA refreshing take on spreadsheets that makes data entry more enjoyableโ€ Sindarina, Edge Case Detective My new cover band will

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Weekend Reading โ€” ๐Ÿฆฉ Flamingo

Street Art Utopia "Whales in the sky! ๐Ÿ‹โœจ From the beach to the clouds at the 38th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer, France. Absolutely surreal!" Tech Stuff Spring Jo ๐Ÿ’ช The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;5

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April 19th, 2025 10 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Distributed CEO

Ben Royce "Why do I feel like I'm in an art museum for some odd reason?" Tech Stuff Managing Developer Experience Debt When I was leading a tech team at a previous startup, I would love Mondays because they were the start of another fun week

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April 12th, 2025 13 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Bunny Time

Nuno & Lua Friends I think there's some bunMovement going on! We just noticed a giant bun with a army of small buns standing at a local hypermarket ๐Ÿ˜ฎ perhaps this is it! WeBuns are going to take over! All the snac will belong to us! Tech Stuff BUSY

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April 5th, 2025 13 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” ๐Ÿงย Tax the Penguins!

Sin of empathy Tech Stuff new.email Get some AI help to build the perfect email template, using react.email which is a super cool email template library, so you can resend your emails away! (If youโ€™re still stuck in MJMLand, give it a try!) react-international-phone The nice thing

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March 29th, 2025 17 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Fuck aboot, find oot

Tech Stuff Denny Karri Saarinen: 10 Rules for Crafting Products That Stand Out Linearโ€™s CEO shares his approach to quality and craft: 1. Commit to quality at the leadership level 2. When it comes to building teams, go small and aim high 3. Do away with handoff 4. Resist

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March 22nd, 2025 15 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Department of weird

Dan Neuman โ€œNice one, IKEAโ€ Tech Stuff โŒ˜K Fast, composable, unstyled command menu for React. Not to be confused with Paletro, a command palette for every macOS app. Remind Me Faster I think this is the perfect app for people with ADHD and at $3.99 not at all expensive,

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