Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)

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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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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Weekend Reading — First rule of Eight Club: no typos

Natasha Jay “Biker gang - believe this group are leaders in the illegal cat nip trade ...” Tech Stuff looks-same Nice library for visual regression testing, when you need to compare images from different platforms (dev, CI, etc) that are not pixel for pixel identical, using a fairly simple API. Mark

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Weekend Reading — Is it me you're calling for?

MostlyHarmless "The bloody hipsters have gone too far." Tech Stuff Embeddable When you need a little widget on your website that converts traffic (newsletter signup, posted review, discount checkout, etc), why not let AI do the walking? This doesn't look horribly expensive, $19/month for 100

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August 16th, 2025 14 min read

Weekend Reading — I'm back and I miss you all! 💋💋💋

Syulang "Soooooo.... capitalism is at it again." First the good news: 10 days ago was the 20th year anniversary of this very blog! 🎂 Many happy returns! Unfortunately, I spent last weekend in the hospital — it took them 4 days to queeze me into a one hour trivial procedure

August 2nd, 2025 11 min read

Weekend Reading — "big" is smaller than "small"

Meanwhile in Canada "You know it's hot when the cat melts" Tech Stuff Kiro "Tame complexity with spec-driven development" Smart use of generative AI: Kiro turns your prompt into a requirements document, and then uses that to build your code, so when you get

July 26th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading — Swipe right

diana "Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip" Tech Stuff daisyUI What goes around comes around and this Tailwind plugin brings back proper CSS classes. And it comes with CSS classes for buttons, cards, modals, avatars, alerts, footers, you name it, there's a class

July 19th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading — Eat plenty of fiber

a beautiful bitch "This is why i make sure i eat plenty of fiber" Tech Stuff kompressor macOS image convertor with a very interesting UI: drag & drop images into the wormhole, then toggle the kind of processing you want, and away we launch! secretlint/secretlint Linting tool

July 12th, 2025 6 min read

Weekend Reading — a24z

Information Is Beautiful "Seems to fit?" Tech Stuff kepano/defuddle When you need to clean up a web page and extract only the important contents. This library claims to offer some benefits over Readability. Sindre Sorhus You don’t need a roadmap, you need caffeine and unreasonable optimism