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havin' a play with: backdrop-filter: url(#glass); Gecko/Webkit 🙏

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

I never understood the claims that shoplifting will cause price increases for us honest folk. Shops set prices to that sweet spot where charging more would lower profits. Shoplifting doesn’t change that sweet spot, so raising prices would just boost the losses.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever my next project is, I’m using Instrument Serif It’s a Google font that doesn’t feel like a Google font, if that makes sense.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

I just got bitten by the side project bug and have like 5 ideas for completely different projects I want to all do right now

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

There needs to be a more dime-a-dozen approach to dressing well. I bet movie sets have 1000 stock outfits that would suit me better than anything I could assemble myself through days of shopping.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Spend £200 on fancy keyboard with fingerprint scanner vs just keep my laptop open on the desk when I’m on the monitor 🤔

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

There appears to be a “launching” phase before walking, where a baby constantly springs their legs and flings their head back into danger.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Everything this baby wants to do is dangerous.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Would it kill sock makers to make every sock in a pack identical?

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

I can bear the baby waking up an hour early and entertaining himself on our bed while we doze But currently his toys aren’t as interesting as climbing on us, poking our faces, sitting up then falling backwards, and kicking.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

submitted 134 days ago • 155 comments

“Still waters run deep” winds me up. If I make no effort to engage with people, I should work on it, not say “well actually that means I’m really clever”

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Curiosity overcame me so I booked a Vision Pro try-out

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

I did petrol maths and it turns out 7 miles costs £1. I think I’m going to be sick.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

If I have to listen to a song 10 times before I like it, does that make it deep or bad (and only enjoyed out of Stockholm Syndrome)?

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I wonder about all the songs I’d love if I heard them one more time and all the songs I do love because I happened to hear them the required number of times.

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

I still haven't figured out a graceful way of populating a useForm with the results of a useQuery. Putting a reset in a useEffect gives me the ick.

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever I see people release SaaS’ with templates I feel like a schmuck doing everything from scratch.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Having a pocket notepad todo list has been a game changer for productivity

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Want your web/brand/product/etc design to stand out? Stop using Poppins. There I said it.

submitted 153 days ago • 19 comments

The Bluesky source code looks very tidy and professional, but it also looks very boilerplatey. I can’t help but think there could be some more abstractions, but maybe they’ve seen some truth I’m yet to see and I’m in the middle of a midwit bell curve.

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

I didn’t realise people actually liked TikTok. I thought everyone was wary of the brainrot (especially for kids) and potential spying and only went on because of dopamine addiction.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

My second parkrun of my health kick and my knees are dead. Is this because I’m over 15 stone now? Because I’m nearly 30? Because my running was actually jogging where each step I went more up than forward? Because it was on a hard path?

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

To-do lists go well right up until I put something like “plan and book a holiday” and then it becomes the to-do-eventually list and I lose all urgency

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

I’m very much not looking forward to an ADHD consultation with my GP. Like my autism (diagnosed 15 years ago), any symptom in isolation seems way too easy to hand wave away with “everyone gets like that sometimes”.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

It may be overkill, but I’m pretty much making a RN shadcn/ui but based on iOS components/styles so I can have their je ne sais quoi but easily add my app’s personality at the last step

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

One little joke I’ve started is to refer to all more costly / not free alternatives as “going private”

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

I forgot how perfect stir fry is. Vegetables and protein, non-processed, super fast, carbs optional, super affordable. Truly the goat.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

I put off learning AI tools because I thought all of my problems were business logic that the AI can’t infer from existing code. I was wrong. Special code is special code, but it still needs wiring up to APIs through connective tissue that is a lot more boilerplatey than I ever noticed.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Cursor has really shed light on how much of React coding is adding a prop, destructuring the prop and implementing the prop

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

My biggest communication flaw is overloading sentences with justifications and caveats as if each sentence is an elevator pitch, nobody can ask follow-up questions, and if I don’t cram it all in one breath, I’ll be misunderstood.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments