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Beautiful landing/demo page for a variable font.

this made him more relatable than anything else I’ve ever heard from him.

To check a bitly link, add + to the end of the URL.

Some gems in replies

Just incredible. Browser-based photoshop

Add to list the list of things ruined by crypto miners. So much for “crypto is an energy arbitrage”. Taking advantage of free services and wrecking them for everyone else.

I like that I have a “trees” tag in links now.

Great way to find new books - specific curated lists.

Good one for the crypto proponents bringing up “oh well the internet seemed useless early on as well”.

Is there any requirement for them to be sticky?

Also see web.dev

Via Soroush’s twitter

Holy shit this is crazy. Rendering for VR is surprisingly different to rendering to a screen - mainly the “check current pose to figure out what to render” part is wild.

Also with a great editor

Paper from 2018(!). tldr: no, it isn’t.

Notes on how Vanilla Extract does what it does.

Overview of a century of breakthroughs and other improvements to health and longevity. The many small changes that stack up to reduce mortality.

The stats I’ve seen on this tracking toggle are pretty wild. Will be interesting to see how the next period unfolds for advertisers. If history is any guide they’ll get even shadier and look for terrible workarounds, but we can dream.

Two key parts: start small and play slow!

Treating practice different to performance. Until you can actually play a piece just do drills, then gradually build up to larger sections. But do the drills slowly and correctly, rather than trying to play at actual speed with bad form.

This is why so many form fields yell at me while I am typing in them!

Sensible writeup. The trashing and attacks over gd frameworks is terrible and unnecessary. Use whatever tech you want!

We crush and burn rock, and then re-constitute it at a time and place and in a form of our choosing.

? Like coffee or pancake mix, it’s “instant stone—just add water!”

Isn’t that basically magic?

Longer form on Instant stone - just add water.

I love the question “what’s a boring topic that you’re excited/fascinated by”. Great way to learn new things!

Quotes from this piece on Ethereum.

I hold zero real gold, so why would I need digital gold, especially digital gold that is ridiculously expensive to transfer?

Started off sounding so ambitious and friendly; the goals and incentives probably shifted fairly early.

They never delivered on this “strong goal” to make web search an academic endeavour.