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Sunday, 19. January 12025
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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.

Review of Orbit by Mozilla.

It's a smart, limited risk approach to AI, unlike what Apple did which was serve everyone raw cake and tell you it's cooked with Apple Intelligence. Or Google destroying their search results, previously the "crown jewels" of the company.

Thursday, 9. January 12025
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❤️‍🩹

Sing ein Lied für den Ozean
Sing ein Lied übers Meer
Und ich singe ein Lied für dich
Wird das Herz mir auch schwer
So viele Tage
Und so viele Stürme
Müssen vergehen
Dann wir werden uns wiedersehen.
– Rio Reiser: Übers Meer

Monday, 6. January 12025
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Heinz Strunk: Der gelbe Elefant (via taz.de).

Relevant: Zauberberg 2.

Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune.¹

Cram tests, in essence, are snapshots of interactive shell sessions. They provide a versatile framework for testing OCaml projects, but not only OCaml, they can be used for any CLI.

¹ Not so obviously, Dune is the build system for OCaml.

Protest in der Krise: Die Kunst des Voranscheiterns.

Gut möglich, dass das, was wie Aufgeben aussieht, manchmal Durchhalten ist, nur eben mit anderen Mitteln.

Martina Hefter erhält den Deutschen Buchpreis 2024 für „Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?

Es stellt sich die Frage, wer hier wen ausbeutet – und was passiert, wenn wider Erwarten die Grenzen zwischen digitalem Spiel und realer Zuneigung verschwimmen.

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Ghostty also intends to push the boundaries of what is possible with a terminal emulator by exposing modern, opt-in features that enable CLI tool developers to build more feature rich, interactive applications.

Okay, but why a manifesto?

The CD Pipeline Manifesto.

Today's CD pipeline ecosystem is fragmented, rigid, and inefficient. We believe pipelines should be code-first, developer-friendly, and designed to handle the complexities of modern engineering workflows.