The book is adorable. Recommended.
Laird Matthew Oliphant https://twitter.com/matto
Well, it's not perfect, but it's done. Ship it. My first book is published and will be for sale shortly.
Ah, and now the real details come out. 🤦🏻 I don't know what it is about the React ecosystem that makes platforms/vendors use such absurd hyperbolic marketing.
A bit more context: - The "10x faster" is 0.01s vs 0.09s - Adding swc results in 58MB (!!) of extra node_modules install size while Vite in its entirety (including esbuil...
If you are flying out of Austin and one of your carry-ons isn’t four pounds of frozen brisket, you’re doing it wrong. 🐄 🔥 🤠
“Released by staff without vetting”… doesn’t seem to match previously reported events? 🤷🏻
🎶 Continuing the “Best of Tangerine Dream” series: “Tangent & Horizon” Wherein we hear the breathtaking fruits of the West Berlin-based band’s impactful live performance behind the Iron Curtain in Warsaw, Poland. yarred.com/tangerine-drea…
Does UiF know what “protest” means? I am not sure they do. twitter.com/u/status/15849…
The Associated Press https://twitter.com/AP
The University of Florida will start prohibiting indoor protests following a demonstration against the selection of U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse as a finalist for the school presi...
Amazing work by the Python core team. Its so encouraging to see the language continue to evolve and improve. Still my default choice for many, many projects. twitter.com/u/status/15849…
Python 3.11 is out! 🎉 This is one of the most exciting releases in a while, including significant speed upgrades and better error messages. Here's what's new:
Happy skating witches
I usually post a link to runyourown.social when news like this comes up. Today I'll add there are two hosts I know of that will run my software Hometown for you and your community: federation.spacebear.ee/software/homet… fedi.monster (available as a Mastodon sub-option)
Equity investors in Elon Musk's take private of Twitter have received paperwork from his lawyers at Skadden Arps in order to prepare for closing the deal. It's another si...
Earthquake!
broke: Webpack woke: Turbopack bespoke: Nopack (as in, no build tooling at all) 😎
I need to mail 9 legal sized envelopes, and for accounting reasons, I shouldn't do this through shopify. I think I'm either going to have to put three stamps on each one or actually get my butt to the post office?! I don't want these to be the options.
Death by #Zettelkasten: a haunting story of information overload!🗃️☠️⚰️ In Penguin Island (1908) by Nobel prize laureate Anatole France, a scholar is drowned by an avalanche of index cards which formed a gigantic whirlpool streaming out of his card index! boffosocko.com/2022/10/24/dea…
OK, I'm sol(i)d. 😉 Seriously though, this is really cool stuff. Reactive primitives is the new "JS framework" in terms of a sudden explosion of solutions. Pick one, and it can dramatically reduce the verbosity of your code *while* making it much easier to reason about.
You can now check out @RyanCarniato's talk "The World Beyond Components" from @ReactFinland 2022. youtu.be/O6xtMrDEhcE
The often critical slate commenters like my advice column and it might to be too much for my ego, but I do feel good about it. Entertainment financial advice columns are not gonna save the world but damn they are fun to write 💕

How to Enjoy the Internet

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Are you taking care of your feet during eternal Caturday?

My website surely gets more traffic than it deserves, but thanks everyone for taking an interest in one of the most niche and geeky topics I may have ever written about and creating a 3x spike in traffic.  boffosocko.com/2022/10/24/558…
so... @AlaskaAir recently redesigned the exterior paint of their planes, and now most of the stock footage on StoryBlocks is out of date. But I'm noticing some other stock websites have more up to date clips. what's going on?
so... @AlaskaAir recently redesigned the exterior paint of their planes, and now most of the stock footage on StoryBlocks is out of date. But I'm noticing some other stock websites have more up to date clips. what's going on?