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Damn, guess that's it for Cohost. I have thoughts, but, whatever, I'm not an expert, I just live here, and I swore an oath that I was not going to Go Into Social Media, or something. Anyway, it's a bummer seeing how many people are like: "Actually maybe I'm done with trying to socialize in public with people on the web." comments

I co-founded console.dev back in 2021 because there wasn’t anywhere for experienced developers to find good tools. There are so many interesting tools for developers, so writing short reviews every week has been a lot of fun. Four years later and the newsletter now goes out to almost 30k engineers each week. At the same time as writing console.dev I also started to get into security. I learned a lot …

My friend Mike and I decided to pursue the same reading goal separately, probably because we each discovered book YouTuber Benjamin McEvoy on our own. We both concluded we wanted to become better readers, diving deeper into the books, to develop a note-taking system, and remember more of what we read. Mike brought it all up with me when he told me about reading A Heritage of Stars by Clifford …

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development, a new category of tools has emerged: repository-to-prompt converters. These utilities address the growing need to feed entire codebases into Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini. Let’s delve into the technical aspects and implications of these tools. Core Functionality At their heart, these tools perform a seemingly simple task: they traverse a directory structure, typically a Git repository, …

A multi-instrumentalist, he started playing mandolin when he was seven, guitar at age eight, and piano in church at age nine. Having lived through enough heartache, joy, embarrassment, love, and renewal for several lifetimes, Sean condenses our human failures and triumphs into stories that make the Southern heart resound. His wildly popular blog and musical podcast, Sean of the South, is suited for anyone with red clay on their car …

The ability to embed images in web pages has been officially supported since 1995. Whereas, the <audio> element was not added until 2015. For 20 years, people were looking at naked people on the web. But, for the same 20 years, there was no officially sanctioned and standardized way of hearing a naked person. And if it's not sanctioned and standardized, it's just not sexy. In the absence of a …

Liz Lopatto once memorably wrote that Wall Street is “what happens when you mix money with feelings.” I want to build on that and posit that perhaps money is what happens when you mix money with feelings. That the shame and fear, hopes and dreams, rage and worry that accompany any discussion of money are at least as meaningful a framework for understanding it as the numbers on a balance …

It’s not essential, but it took me down a path… David Darnes already made a <code-pen> web component. It’s great. It takes code, and creates a pen from that code. But I don’t want to create a pen, I want to embed one. The default CodePen embed is pretty good already. So right from the start, this whole project is unnecessary. The code looks like this: <p class="codepen" data-slug-hash="BEvjbm" data-height="600"> …

In a fit of personal nostalgia, I’ve been looking back at previous posts, journals, and spreadsheets recently. One pattern that has emerged: once every year in the early summer, I make major changes to my studio in an attempt to fix things that have been driving me crazy. But I’ve had this one finished for a couple of months, and there is Nothing. Driving. Me. Crazy. Which, honestly, is a …

John De La Parra, a food scientist from the Rockerfeller Foundation spoke on the first day of The Conference, after a pretty esoteric (to me) presentation that asked us to participate in a guided meditation, listen to plants and submit our dreams to an experimental app. It was pretty far from my comfort zone. He acknowledges the segue from artist practice into his more science-based work by quoting Alan Watts …

Morning folks - I hope everyone is well and not too depressed by my previous posts . . it is just stuff you have to think about. Anyway, without further ado, it is back to normality (or whatever it is called these days).This post is a just about a couple of images that surprised me as soon as I took the negatives out of the tank.And that to me is …

Saturday 31st August 2024 Having escaped the Sunderland fans bound for Pompey with their 8am cans and tinny Oasis singalong, we took a tube north to Hampstead where I had an amazing FOUR ticks to be done. The 'we' included Daddy BRAPA and Oscar T. Owl. Day one of a new round of LNER train strikes, and we'd escaped unscathed. In fact, I'm now reading that the strikes have now …

There is a phenomenon that stumped people when it first appeared, including the pilots who documented it – bright red lighted spots in the sea. Puzzling at first, the explanation was eventually discovered, and solidly confirmed. But this week, I noticed a less diligent weather commentator in Greece is getting attention for reposting images from several years ago, with a slightly different context, but without the explanation. This has led …

Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you some practical real-world problems I solved using “:has”, as well as some wild experiments that blew my mind! Keep …