The year 2024 Bandcamp reviews by the BC Daily Staff are so great. Probably will spend my whole music listening credits of 2025 for what they curated 🤩

It’s always nice to stumble across an Antville blog on Wikipedia.

Should be a “should” in the title.

How Senior Programmers Write Code.

1. Complete Your Work Before Moving On
2. Enforce Consistent Coding Standards
3. Document Design Patterns Thoroughly
4. Review New Patterns Early and Often
5. Handle Refactoring Strategically
6. Plan for Documentation and Design Discussions

The Death of the Stubborn Developer.

If you're not using chop¹, then you're plodding. You're like one of those crusty old assembly-language holdouts still using asm in 1990 because compiler-generated code wasn't fast enough. Stubborn bastards, the lot of 'em. Sound familiar?

They were both right and wrong, since compiler-generated code was indeed not as trustworthy as handwritten code (sound familiar?)… at the time. Once it caught up, their doom was sealed, and their smugness, wiped.

Same will go for you, soon enough, if you find yourself still programming by writing code by hand when the shoe drops.

¹ Chat-oriented programming

Relevant: “Catching the LLM in a hallucination, catching a junior associate in a mistake – pretty similar.”

Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics.

FFmpeg By Example is a documentation website to showcase all the unique and different ways to use FFmpeg.

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "life=s=960x540:mold=10:r=60:ratio=0.1:death_color=#C83232:life_color=#00ff00,scale=960:540:flags=16" -c:v libx264 -crf 41 -frames:v 1800 -r 60 -t 30 life.mp4

Strong Google Waves vibes…

Learn Yjs.

Yjs is a CRDT for building realtime collaborative applications. You’d use it to create multiplayer experiences like Figma or Google Docs.

Here’s What to Watch in 2025’s Skies.

The heavens will provide a bounty of viewing treasures in the coming year.

Any sufficiently unreasonable amount of time is indistinguishable from magic? 🤔

An Unreasonable Amount of Time.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

Balancing Text In CSS.

Almost two years ago, I published an article about text-wrap: balance and how useful it is. I thought about revisiting the topic with a more solid exploration and examples that include different values of text-wrap.