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Weekend Reading — Monotation

Uphill Rd, Joshua Tree, CA I shudder to think of how many birds have unwittingly plowed into this place. Tech Stuff Min A very minimal browser, offers more space for the web page, fewer distractions. Ryan Grove Software developers, I need you to listen to me: error states are as

Weekend Reading — Wrong opinions, weekly held

Jen Gentleman “I'll never be able to unsee this” Tech Stuff Nxtscape An open-source agentic browser. Basically you instruct the browser what you want it to do. Eniko Fox It's a common misconception that types exist on computers. In reality everything is just integers, except for

Weekend Reading — Reefer Madness

OnlMaps “Air traffic in the Middle East” Tech Stuff Fireflies.ai When it's a meeting that you need to capture, transcribe, summarize, and turn into meeting notes, try Fireflies. Wispr Flow Typing: 45 wpm. Talking: 220 wpm. I know some people love talking to their computer and Wispr

Weekend Reading — 🎻 World's smallest violin

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' Tech Stuff TLTD #29 - Vibe Coding Your Way to a Seed Round On the relentless march toward zero-cost prototyping: Enter vibe coding: now founders can translate ideas into working prototypes by describing what they want to AI

Weekend Reading — Only one Wiener

Hot diggity dog! Wienermobiles put on riveting race in Wienie 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway In this race there will be only one Wiener. Tech Stuff lucy github actions have github consequences zumerlab/snapdom Captures any HTML element as a scalable SVG image, preserving styles, fonts, background images, pseudo-elements, and

Weekend Reading — Sell your soul for cuteness and regret nothing

Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr “1983 was a wild time.” 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 👍 We also migrated from Jest to vitest, and

Weekend Reading — 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,

Weekend Reading — 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! “A refreshing take on spreadsheets that makes data entry more enjoyable” Sindarina, Edge Case Detective My new cover band will