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Elon isn’t the only person who has recently purchased a large-scale social network. Matt Mullenweg snapped up Tumblr back in August for the “de minimis” sum of 3 million (it takes far more than an order of magnitude more than that just to run Tumblr for a year). Nilay Patel has a great interview with […]

I recently did the BMW Performance Driving School. I took the M1 School, two full days of instructor-driven learning, with 3 other friends down in the Palm Springs, California area. It’s kinda like training to be a race car driver. They do not coddle you. If anything, they make fun of you for sucking. At […]

Apple made a big deal of their support of Passkeys at their latest developer conference. And rightfully so. I hope they keep making a big deal of it. It really seems like the future of authentication and we should get moving on it, as an industry. Fascinatingly to me, Apple didn’t invent this very Apple-sounding […]

Marc Brooker lists five ways in which Writing is Magic. They are all true. The first is my favorite. First, clarity. I’m sure you know the quote “Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is”, and knowing how sloppy your thinking is allows you to sharpen it, test your arguments, […]

I’ve long been on the “spaces” side of the tabs vs. spaces preference debate. I think there is just something that feels sturdy and reliable about spaces. I’m wrong though. Despite not having swapped over most of my projects, I think that, objectively, tabs are the better choice. So since it doesn’t impact experience, allows […]

I was a little nervous about the drive to the airport Sunday morning. It was supposed to snow pretty good the night before. It did snow a bit, so I shoveled the driveway before I left at 4:30am for my 6:00am flight. The snow got worse on the drive, but I made it to the […]

How do you prevent an image from being downloaded from the web? You can’t! Terence Eden knows this too, but it didn’t stop him from a very clever experiment. First, split the image into two in some fashion (he made every-other-line interlaced versions). Then… Using JavaScript the first frame can be rendered onto a <canvas> element for […]

Before a dissertation on Designing Go Libraries, Abhinav Gupta essentially tries to talk you out of it: Do you need to write it? Owning and maintaining a library can be a significant undertaking. The work does not end once the code is written — there is often a never-ending stream of bug fixes, feature requests, new use […]

I was a little skeptical of Arc, a new web browser from The Browser Company of New York. Ooo la la. Yeah, well, I run the Fart Factory of Bend. A small irony is that the pandemic means they aren’t really even in New York anymore. Joke. Ruined. I was actually skeptical because I’ve tried […]