Labnotes
January 27th, 2025 9 min read

Weekend Reading — Sortie dramatique

heyheymomo “Lovely day lovely day” Tech Stuff Niki Tonsky “Old classic” Some Dude Was Keeping the Company Afloat The wildest part? No one in the company realized he was doing this. Not his manager, not the dev team, not even upper management. This guy wasn’t just some random employee;

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January 18th, 2025 10 min read

Weekend Reading — When you excel …

BasicAppleGuy “Lumon Industries Macrodata Refinement Terminal.” Tech Stuff vivus A library that will animate SVG files bringing them to life. Justified Text: Better Than Expected? When you need your text properly justified: text-wrap: balance; hyphens: auto; hyphenate-limit-chars: 10; CSS light-dark() Delightful! Cognitive load is what matters The trick to writing

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January 11th, 2025 14 min read

Weekend Reading — The whisky war of 1973

sjvn “Best snow truck name ever.” Tech Stuff trimMiddle This is such a cool function: it trims any string to the desired length by dropping text from the middle of the string, like Finder does with filenames. And a lot of times when you’re trimming text, eg email address,

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January 4th, 2025 9 min read

Weekend Reading — DOOM x 2

Andy P “But it is public domain” Tech Stuff Fish 4.0b1 I'm giving Fish a try. So far it’s really amazing and a step up from ZSH, which itself was a step up from Bash. 4.0b1 is out, noted as “highly stable” and as better

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December 28th, 2024 8 min read

Weekend Reading — Happy New Year! 🥳

Vitalis 🇺🇦 The most original and unusual landmark in Odesa, which has become a symbol of the creativity of Odesa residents. Tech Stuff Cursor I really really like Cursor. I had a great time using VS Code + Github Copilot. I found the autocomplete to be such a huge time saver. But

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December 21st, 2024 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Happy "That's a January Problem" week

Can Christmas season start a little earlier this year Tech Stuff Ramsey Nasser fuck it happened i am in a situation where i do actually need to reverse a linked list Atuin I just learned about Atuin and am giving it a try. I think it’s good and worth

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December 14th, 2024 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Claim denied

The Mighty Git "One of the curious upsides to discovering you have ADHD as an older man is that suddenly other people have an easier time finding presents for you..." Tech Stuff Mantine DataTable When you need an all powerful data table in your UI that can do

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December 7th, 2024 7 min read

Weekend Reading — Make Orwell Fiction Again

MostlyHarmless Tech Stuff colinaut/action-table A web component that allows users to sort/filter a table. Just wrap your table inside <action-table>. So simple and works like a charm. VineJS A library for validating form data that supports HTML forms and JSON and is optimized for speed and

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November 30th, 2024 9 min read

Weekend Reading — Never

For Europeans...... Tech Stuff da_667 “people who write javascript don't make threats, they make promises” NumberFlow - Transition and format numbers An open source component to transition, format, and localize numbers — because sometimes you want the numbers to change and also look like they're changing,

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