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git-scraping is awesome. It let's you re-use CI as a pattern to scrape data from the internet and store it publicly in your repository.

I was working with an agent to produce a new widget. I gave it a research task, gave it a direction, and when it came back I immediately stopped prompting it further to investigate what it did.

Found a little gem on Reddit. I mean, I don't know if this is fun to actually type on, and the spacebar doesn't actually follow a vonoroi ...

A tiny game made with PICO-8

Lucide is a fantastic resource for icons. Just wanted to make a note for myself because I keep forgetting the name.

Just some keycap inspiration

A Billboard chart headline made the rounds: "Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first woman in history to debut her first ten top 10 Hot 100 hits in the top 10." Lynn quote-posted it a theorem that certainly made me giggle.

Someone made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments. The tool lives at hackernewstrends.com and lets you overlay how often terms show up over time.

I made this YouTube video the other day about how all code, eventually, is abandoned. It doesn't die, because it still exists, but it simply won't have people working on it anymore.

I work with YouTube for my job and I'm happy to announce that I found a remedy for the extremely distracting landing page. It's a Chrome extension called redirector that lets you add redirect rules to the browser by hand.

Been thinking about a quote lately. The quote is from the final episode of the first season of Shell Game, which is a great podcast.

From this interview I learned about the marketing around Niche. What's interesting here isn't just how the game got developed but also how it eventually got marketed.

A few of my components from wigglystuff have graduated and are now part of marimo. The whole point of the library is to have a place for fun and experimental tools.

Carl Sagan has a nice quote about books. “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time.

deno is a modern Javascript runtime that can run Javascript and Typescript natively. But it is also something that's available to all Python users without the need to install node.

When you auto-deploy with a bash script from cron, the naive setup is something like this: ``` * * * * * /path/to/deploy.sh ``` This `deploy.sh` script checks if the current git hash is up to date with the main repo.

I've been a huge fan of tailwind for over half a decade. Partially because it's a great library but also because it was cool to see a small team ship and maintain a functional business while maintaining it.

LLMs have a much easier time if it is clear that there is one, and only one, way to do something. Python, ironically, isn't that.

Back when I was rowing in college a teammate said an incredibly memorable thing: You don't win a rowing match during the match, you win it during the training.

Let's say, as a dad, that there are two cool kinds of creative toys you could make with your kid. You buy a 3d printer, and print what-ever creative thing you two can come up with.

It seems that companies might have very good reasons to hang on to a video game IP even if they have no intention of using it. I imagined this would mainly be to prevent another company from using the IP, but Michael Cain, a developer on Arcanum, ...

Just quoting this tweet. I would like to make my apologies for defending M$, but I must from time to time.

It can be hard to go from 0 to 1. But once you're there, it's much easier to go from 1 to 2.

If you want to dive into a few fun math practice problems, you might like this collection of dice problems. It's remarkable how deep you can go with a few dice.

I've been doing developer relations for over five years now, and YouTube has been a big part of that. The marimo channel sits around 1.5 million views and 10k subscribers after a year, so I like to think I've learned a thing of two that others mig...

uv is amazing but it does come with a sneeky little downside. Every time and you create a cache there's a good chance that it will stick around for-ever.

This is an AI generated guide I wrote for myself that I put up on my blog for safekeeps. This tutorial covers how to replicate Grant Sanderson's interactive math animation environment (as seen at the start of this video) using the **ManimGL** engi...