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Great overview of some nice looking parts of Go. May actually convince me to look!

this requirement reads like the whole thing was made for a specific cat picture

It works best with 299 x 299px images that depict one specific object.

Currently at $3.7M

This is cooool. I’ve been into eye-tracking since seeing a talk on it a couple of years ago. Had figured any kind of accuracy needed more than just visual pupil tracking so this being even remotely accurate is neat.

This was a pretty solid list. Mostly simple & sensible.

Link appears to have sadly already suffered linkrot, need to start backing these things up.

Good list to re-read and remember. Be more considerate of where the years go. Also learn how to come up with phrases like this :)

Don’t agree with all the points, but would enjoy less third-party tracking. Especially if it means fewer fucking cookie notifications.

Good year to do this I guess. It definitely does need to be easier, that is probably a matter of keeping notes for “here are places I need to update when I change this key”.

Very relevant to recent events. Stupid political divides give people too many reasons to not listen to each other. Finding relatable and shared ways to get the point across is more effective than just being clever.

Good notes on levels of feedback. Read something similar to this (tldr don’t tell people they need to rewrite if they are showing you a final draft!). Partly saved because I like the site design.

Fuck unnecessary acronyms

Haven’t seen this Q&A thing before - it’s kinda cool.

Dense, short summary of GC in Ruby. Relevant to work bookclub book

Takes on this have been infuriating. From the ‘oh my their definition of news is too broad’ to the ‘biLliOnaIreS wANt 2 ceNSoR uS!!!’ calls from people who should fucking know better.

I really do rather hate the news. Particularly all this recent extortion horseshit for paying to have users post links.

Excellent episode. Need to relisten and write a summary

Some good reading. Still mixed feelings on half the posts being gemini-only since I don’t have a supporting browser on my phone.

I think this also. We have the means to solve so many pressing problems but choose not to do so.

We possess the resources and production necessary to provide every human being on Earth with a comfortable living: adequate food, housing, health, and happiness. We have decided not to do so. We have achieved what one may consider the single unifying goal of the entire history of humanity: we have eliminated natural scarcity for our basic resources. We have done this, and we choose to deny our fellow humans their basic needs, in the cruel pursuit of profit. We have more empty homes than we have homeless people. America alone throws away enough food to feed the entire world population. And we choose to let our peers die of hunger and exposure.

Don’t agree with all (I like some of the stupid new features), but the core point is true. Web browsers have gotten too complex and are basically no longer rebuildable from scratch.

Tips on stair placement, making things visible in levels, and some room/layout tricks to make stairs actually useful rather than min-length ramps between areas of different heights.

Just turned on a YouTube kids video for my 2yr old and it was the story of 10 anthropomorphized donuts who are screaming as they’re baked in the oven, banging on the glass, cooked alive. Then each one drowns face down in a different color icing.

I would actually watch this. Understandable that parents might not want a two year old to though…

The design philosophy behind flash was to let you make animations and interactive content.

The design philosophy behind html/css/js/web stack is a composable system of modules that can be bundled, used to center objects, and plumb state to components.

Qualtiy write-up of the process behind making The Emperor’s New Groove (great movie).

Cool idea. Causes some wild screen tearing or something on old laptop, and as the author mentions:

while it might look great, usability of it is poor

Linked video on motion blur is also good.

Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land.
Transport passengers to their destination.
Watch the world go by.
Listen to chilled out chiptune music.

A beautiful, amazing thing.

The shift from being online being the fun part of your day to it being the core part of the day. Not only makes it feel more like work, but makes the other online aspects feel more work-like.

Sorry for rushing this a bit, but got home yet?

Really great and approachable tips for communicating with cartoons.

HN Thread also has some good links to books and sites

Need more content like this. “How to do sensible things with HTML” is under-explored compared to how to do stupid things with JS

Super interview. Talks about books, birds, poetry, and spies, Lots of interesting and random tidbits in there

I agree and kinda hate this boring trend

Web component library. Worth looking into at some point

Might try this out for some project organisation. Reluctant to use this for all notetaking due to editor lock-in - I can’t use VSCode on this low-RAM laptop.

Thorough and followable breakdown, with lots of code comments. Will this be what gets me to actually learn WebGL? We’ll find out!

Good write up - actually providing some counter arguments other than “your markup is ugly”. I’m still very undecided on tailwind, and comprehensive util class libs generally. Some sense, easy to go overboard with the “one rule per class” nonsense.

Love the language in this post. “Ceviche is a different matter.”

Useful clip for heavy bird-like walk animationo

Love the layered demonstration

All gold

Some good tips on ensuring things other than work happen.