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Incredible post. A must-read for serving fonts.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 0 comments

I once gave a company-wide talk about the things we were doing wrong in engineering and how we should fix them. I didn't hold back punches. That much critique has got a lot of folks off-guard. What was the wildest presentation you've ever done?

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

A robot vacuum is the only device in my home that periodically forgets what it is and what it was designed to do. Just leaves its dock, makes a spin, and sucks its way back home.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I am becoming convinced that not all developers have the inherent hunch for what good API design should feel like. Interesting.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The site I host on Fly has got ~2k unique viewers in the last month and my bill is $3/mo (and growing) at the moment of writing this. My other site has a constant ~20k monthly viewers and I pay $0 for it on a different provider. Am I doing something wrong?

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Rendering solutions for Vitest Browser Mode are growing! Please welcome Preact to the family 👏

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yep. Fantastically put. Reinventing the wheel is the best way to learn how the wheel works. Do that. Always do that.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Nobody: Literally nobody: Expedition 33 Minimap Music:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Because component tests belong in the browser. Always did. Great job on this one! 👏

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I would watch a documentary on why Apple Pages implemented DOCX support the way they did. Every literal feature I touch is described differently. Sometimes I feel the engineers did it purely out of spite. Like, you need to put *more* effort to make it that confusing.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It is important to keep in mind when designing practical software that user expectations toward the output of your software are often mediocre. It sounds weird but a lot of folks are happy with mediocre outputs. I don't know why.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Very few things in the digital world bring me more joy than elegant serif typefaces. Those are stunning.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I want Remix-level take on UI frameworks. So, yeah, I'm excited about those weird leaks.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

What do engineers and librarians have in common? SSH 🤫

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I am bad at computer science and bad at data structures. I learn like a sponge by examples. I've worked with AST in Babel years ago and it inspired the API for traversing DOCX documents this week. I don't know what data structures I need. But I know what experience I want.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Software is composition.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Finally. Fourteen years later and I've got my welcome.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The more I build software the more I observe the gap between the low-level and high-level solutions. It's either super low-level DIY thing or a rigid, non-customizable "production-ready" thing. I want more software that lives in-between. I think MSW is a good example.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The fact that EPUB supports GIF is pretty neat. We need more inklings of animated experiences in books. Those can be magical.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If your screen recording software ships with a built-in video editor, that's how you're letting me know that you aren't targeting serious content creators. Good software doesn't try to do everything.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

MY WRITING EMPIRE IS GROWING! WHAHAHA

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I couldn't figure out this file parsing but I got a great advice from a senior engineer. He told me to approach it bit by bit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment