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My first perfect game! 🤘
April 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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TIL 😳
March 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I just sponsored @heyandras.dev. Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! You can join me at: github.com/sponsors/coo...
Sponsor @coollabsio on GitHub Sponsors
Support our open-source work and the idea of coolLabs.
github.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🎉 OMG OMG OMG Chrome is shipping CSS attr() for every property!!! 🎉
I’ve been asking for this for over a decade!! w00t!!! 🤩

developer.chrome.com/blog/advance...
CSS attr() gets an upgrade  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
You can now use attr() with any CSS property–including custom properties–and it can parse values into data types other than strings.
developer.chrome.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths. About how these AI tools really work and how they could be the start of the return of software, as a craft.

Based on a guest post by @addyosmani.bsky.social. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-wil...
January 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Honestly love Safari's "hide distracting items" button.

Tired: ad blocker
Wired: blast ads like space invaders

Needs a leaderboard and a speedrun timer though
December 30, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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"Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn."

uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam...

#a11y
Giving a damn about accessibility
A candid and practical handbook for designers.
uxdesign.cc
December 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Holy macaroni! Never expected this to happen.

Thank you Hetzner💜

(You can now one-click install Coolify to one-click install a lot of other things 😅)
November 5, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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Start testing emails like this
December 18, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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💻 Remember, if you're on a Mac, you can clean up your desktop by having screenshots sent to another folder:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is

(then do killall SystemUIServer)
November 25, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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One of the small quality-of-life improvement specs I've been closely following for a bit now:

httpwg.org/http-extensi...

Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍
The HTTP QUERY Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
httpwg.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:37 AM
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
-Edward O. Wilson
November 23, 2024 at 3:15 AM
"Saying you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say."
-Edward Snowden
November 19, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Sometimes the best engineering happens when you’re just tinkering, free from expectations and deadlines.
November 10, 2024 at 9:35 AM