Marvel while it lasts.
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns.
Decoding AVIF: Deep dive with cats and imgproxy. (Via frontendfoc.us.)
It is time to talk seriously about AVIF, how it is different from predecessors, and how to start using it for web images today with the help of dead-simple and reliable self-hosted image converter from Evil Martians.
Do you mean: Idiocity.
The Ideology of Human Supremacy (via densediscovery.com).
The next time you go for a hike in nature, and marvel at its beauty, take a moment to realize that you are looking at a pale, shrunken wraith of what it once was. An accumulation of studies around the world measuring the declines of species and ecosystems indicates that overall we’ve lost around ninety percent of nature’s profusion. We live, Mackinnon observes, in a “ten percent world.” Those of us who gain sustenance from the sacred beauty of nature sometimes like to think of it as a temple. But, as Mackinnon notes, “a greater truth should be foremost in mind: Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.”
The mythical year experience.
do you have 12 years of experience or do you have 12 iterations of 1 year of experience?
Kunstwerke mit LEGO-Steinen.
Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century.
I have created a tool called jc that converts the output of dozens of GNU and non-GNU commands and configuration files to JSON. Instead of everyone needing to create their own custom parsers for these common utilities and files, jc acts as a central clearinghouse of parsing libraries that just need to be written once and can be used by everyone.
Why do some get hooked on pandemic terror and phobic energy?
‘(…) You don’t know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?’
‘That’s an amazing thing to say.’
‘And you don’t know that once this threat begins to fade? … You’re the lost man of history.’
Patterns in confusing explanations.
I came up with a list of 13 patterns that make explanations hard for me to understand. For each pattern I’ll also explain what I like to do instead to avoid the issue.