The Great Feminist Exhaustion – And a Partially Formed Theory of 2025 Culture.
Because Runkit is dead.
Npmjs.dev – fiddle with npm packages in browser.
Via reddit.com.
Jsonrepair – repair invalid JSON documents (via jsoneditoronline.org).
Don’t forget to install with vet!
Mise-en-place – the front-end to your dev env (via blog.vbang.dk).
We had the long phone line queues for a while (“we are experiencing an unusually high call volume at this time”), it’s an old trick. Now, we have AI-backed chatbots. No longer there’s a “Speak with a human being” button prominently displayed on the website. You have to play a game first: convince the chatbot that your issue is important enough to speak with a person.
Relevant: Baumol effect.
You say asize, I say psize!
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too).
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
FCKCRS
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” (via youtube.com).
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, an industry group, established a free wire service for newspapers: Reporters could send in the basic details of a traffic accident and would get in return a complete article to print the next day. These articles, printed widely, shifted the blame for accidents to pedestrians — signaling that following these new laws was important.
Don't just run it, vet it.
Vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern.
It lets you inspect, diff against previous versions, and lint remote scripts before asking for your explicit approval to execute. Promoting a safer, more transparent way to handle remote code execution.