Published
Weekend Reading — Hydrate like a data center
Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen "Thirst trap"
Tech Stuff
SmoothCSV CSV editor without the Excel overhead. Features include smooth cell editing, SQL queries, cell and row swapping, command palette, and more. Since it's a Tauri app, minimal memory usage and super smooth UI.
Wordgard Open-source JavaScript library implementing an in-browser rich-text editor, from the creator of ProseMirror.
Mark Dominus Exactly!
I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.
The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.
Bramble Local-first password manager: "If you love KeePass, you'll feel at home: your encrypted database, your control, no cloud middleman." Includes browser extension and native iOS and Android apps, open source pricing.
termcn Beautifully designed, accessible, and customizable terminal UI components. Built on Ink and OpenTUI.
reactUse A collection of 164+ React hooks, think useActiveElement, useBrowserLocation, useClickOutside, useCounter, and many more.
"You might not need… a service worker" by Jay Freestone
Service workers are incredibly powerful but also incredibly complicated. I feel like a lot of people went through the journey of "This sounds nice, but it caused an incident and I couldn't wrap my head around it, so I just ripped it out."
Harper Open source grammar checker alternative to Grammarly. (do I need to explain why Grammarly is not a good choice for daily use?) Mind you, feels rough around the edges, I'm waiting for a future release.
My wife pointed out that I tend to be REALLY LOUD when I'm on a zoom/Meet call for work.
I realized she's right, so I built a tool called "Inside Voice" that beeps at me if my microphone's audio gets louder than an adjustable threshold.
I'm pretty happy with it!
openai/planttalk From the department of “I’m not making this up”: use ChatGPT to talk with your plants.
I have a script that runs once a day and archives (text and media) posts that I have bookmarked into my Obsidian notes folder. Inside Obsidian, I have an aggregation note with a Dataview script that loads them all asynchronously to not block the UI.
And ONLY THEN I do nothing with them.
Eye for Design
A Good Product Is Hard to Outgrow
Great tools stay approachable at the beginning, but reveal deeper capability as users grow into them.
Peoples
Ten do’s and don’ts for LinkedIn posts, according to actual research, based on pre-slop posts
1. Make someone else the subject of your post. Posts thanking, congratulating, or acknowledging a specific person – what the researchers call “Interpersonal” posts – won more head-to-head engagement comparisons than any other category, for both reactions and comments. They were also under 10% of the feed. The feed is oversupplied with self-promotion and starved of other-promotion, so post what’s scarce.
Half-Baked Product A story about life at a startup.
The founder swallows hard. The ticket has been sitting on the kanban board for a month and a half. It’s not that nobody saw it: it’s that every week something jumped ahead of it. The candle button. The fireplace thing. The Ramadan thing. The rotating base was always the second-highest priority, and the second-highest priority never gets done. So he answers with conviction:
“Almost finished.”
Machine Intelligence
The State of the AI Economy Tokenomics 101.
So wide, bottom-up systems like neural nets keep surprising us. They may not be able to take us all the way, but they have almost always been the best place to start, and have taken us much further than we expected. Neural nets will probably keep surprising us.
Using Opus 4.8 to get a second opinion on an MRI and where it leaves me
There's something incredibly peaceful about being in the hands of an expert you trust. You don't have to worry anymore and can let them guide you through the process.
AI can absolutely shatter that feeling in an uncomfortable way: After having gotten this AI-driven second opinion, the diagnosis and treatment plan look premature and more intervention-heavy than the facts seemed to justify... but I don't know if I can fully trust AI either. So I'm left in a state of limbo where I either try my luck with another doctor or wait and see if my shoulder gets better with the rehab I'm doing.
Tamamons Need to boost your tokenmaxxing? Play Pokemon by … using Claude Code more.
Insecurity
"I had to enable parental controls to keep my dishwasher from attacking other computers" is one of those sentences which would leave me greatly amused in a PKD novel but I'm less fond of IRL
but it does make me pretty curious about what sites it's trying to hit; like I wonder if you could identify the command-and-control node it's getting instructions from, or a sample of the sites it's attacking assuming it's not encrypting the SNI in its outbound requests
Everything Else
Zestryon "This Is Fine, le mème universel."
Comforting to remember that, in the long, long term view, things are good and getting better. Unfortunately, we live in the short term.
Always do your best. Your best will change from day to day.
That "Robbie" guy "This is outrageously unfair. Make operating systems small again"
Relax. This is one of the coldest summers you'll experience for the rest of your life.
i’m so chronically online my shampoo says like and repost instead of rinse and repeat
Broke Fix Flip I don't know the specifics of this site, but I love the concept — find a broken thing, buy it at a lower price, fix it yourself. For example, it lists a Breville Impress Espresso Machine for $349 compared to market value of $840, alongside a list of common items that get replaced ($15 heating element, $15 motor, etc). Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Hydrate like a data center.
proposal: teach crows to read and write so that they may hold grudges for longer and over a wider variety of topics
i've never met a podcaster who i wouldn't divorce
NewsGuard AI Yes, that's AI and it uses a chatbot interface so you can chat with it about major news events happening right now, but on the other side, the news is coming from 12,000+ vetted sources with real-time fact-checking. To me that looks like the future direction of journalism.
Who would’ve thought, when we were all making fun of it 25 years ago, that in 2026 the corner of every app, every website, every screen would have its own annoying Clippy?
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized
“To master the art of eating spaghetti like a true SEO professional,” Google’s search bot said, “proper technique is key.”
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
Carspreading No comment.
