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Weekend Reading — Go forth and prompt cliff538 "What a great artistic reuse of old license plates!" Tech Stuff Shepherd "Stay focused. Grow your sheep." Chrome extension that auto-categorizes thousands of sites as productive, neutra...

Weekend Reading — Go forth and prompt

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Weekend Reading — Sunlight with ads ConnectionWithWonder "Knitted bollard-warmer Weymouth" Tech Stuff UNF* Records every version of a file and can easily rewind back without having to manually commit changes. Perfect if you're wor...

Weekend Reading — Sunlight with ads

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Weekend Reading — Known to cause boys in yards Marcel "It's embarrassing how quickly a bit of sunshine can change my mood." Tech Stuff Current is a new RSS reader that’s more like a river than an inbox If you want to enjoy RSS give Current a...

Weekend Reading — Known to cause boys in yards

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Weekend Reading — The Cone of Uncertainty Dinosa Labs "Bueno, ahora sí, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌" Tech Stuff npmx If you search for npm packages frequently, give npmx a try. It's much faster...

Weekend Reading — The Cone of Uncertainty

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Weekend Reading — Load bearing post David Zinn "Jen’s response to winter is to wear big boots and keep on stomping." Tech Stuff pandoc for the people The pandoc wasm web-app is now available and allows to run any kind of document ...

Weekend Reading — Load bearing post

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Weekend Reading — A very British problem Stéphane Bortzmeyer Tech Stuff Craft Agents Claude Cowork is the Claude Code brains for working with office documents (Word docs, presentations, etc) which I think is a powerful idea. Yet, I jus...

Weekend Reading — A very British problem

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Weekend Reading — Universe closed, use Rainbow Natasha In "Albuquerque, NM, Rainbow road runs parallel to Universe blvd." Tech Stuff Pencil The demo looks amazing, basically an MCP server that can design your product with pixel-perfect preci...

Weekend Reading — Universe closed, use Rainbow

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Weekend Reading — A server raclette MTV Rewind If you miss MTV from back when it was a TV station that plays music, aka the good old days. Tech Stuff dbreunig/whenwords This is seriously cool. A library that provides timeago ("in ...

Weekend Reading — A server raclette

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Weekend Reading — So close to the end of the world Laura Manach Tech Stuff Convert & Compress When you need to process a batchload of files: convert them to a different format, limit their width/height, compress with specific quality loss, etc. ...

Weekend Reading — So close to the end of the world

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Weekend Reading — Where are all the coffee filters? Volpeon "Make yourself a little foxxo companion" Tech Stuff TapHouse Manage Homebrew form the convenience of a GUI with single-click installs, doctor and cleanup tools, auto update, menu bar mod...

Weekend Reading — Where are all the coffee filters?

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Weekend Reading — A double young-man Mabelz Tech Stuff BrewServicesManager Manage Brew services from the menu bar. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields New to me and quite useful: The Sec-Fetch-Site header...

Weekend Reading — A double young-man

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Weekend Reading — Sparkling spaces ARGVMI~1.PIF "Well, you can't say you weren't warned." Tech Stuff How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents Yes. JustHTML is about 3,000 lines of Python with 8,500+ tests passing. I couldn't...

Weekend Reading — Sparkling spaces

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Weekend Reading — This heater is from space Street Art Utopia "Painted Octopus! By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick, Ireland." Tech Stuff Building a Toast Component This is the story of Sonner, why they came up with that name, how they ma...

Weekend Reading — This heater is from space

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Weekend Reading — The “Can that wait till January?” club David Zinn "Claude’s secret to surviving winter is having a grandma who knits." Tech Stuff W4G1/multithreading The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript. Supports modern brow...

Weekend Reading — The “Can that wait till January?” club

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Weekend Reading — Torment Nexus is financially sound Slirt "Don't forget to save enough SPACE for dessert... Nanu-nanu!" Tech Stuff Respinner For when you need React spinner components. Rebane 🤯 cursed CSS trick: use the Q unit instead o...

Weekend Reading — Torment Nexus is financially sound

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Thanks! That’s a great explainer (i love showing charts like this to upper management)

The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days.

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Weekend Reading — Increase time in the bathroom Real Life Bog Person "My SIL has informed me that this exists in Auburn WA. I have a new place to visit!" Tech Stuff Grila If you calendar a lot you're going to love this app: a keyboard-driven ...

Weekend Reading — Increase time in the bathroom

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Weekend Reading — 404 bragawatts John S Russell "Where I post from." Tech Stuff Zod + TypeScript: Schema Validation Made Easy Learn how to use Zod, a TypeScript schema validation library that allows you to validate external dat...

Weekend Reading — 404 bragawatts

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Weekend Reading — Aggravation is observed Wilhelm Gere "This should explain things" Tech Stuff Cursed Knowledge Immich shares their experience and I love that their product website (it's not a dev tool!) has this page. (via archiloque) ...

Weekend Reading — Aggravation is observed

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Weekend Reading — Cloud outages will continue until morale improves Kevin Beaumont Tech Stuff I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong I'm using Alabaster to see how I like it (PS it's an extension, not a theme): The problem with that i...

Weekend Reading — Cloud outages will continue until morale improves

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Weekend Reading — More relevant ads Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures Collection of amazing photos for your enjoyment. Tech Stuff Your data model is your destiny Your product's core abstractions determine whether new ...

Weekend Reading — More relevant ads

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Weekend Reading — And a ghostty October to you The Autistic Innovator "Someone didn't think that design through" Tech Stuff LaunchOS Launchpad is back! Not my favorite UI, I never cared to use Launchpad, but I know a few people who swear by it, and now you can brew install launchos on your macOS 26. The AI-collapse pre-mortem (via

Weekend Reading — And a ghostty October to you

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Weekend Reading — Prime minister of France for 15 minutes Lizzy "You guys i did a thing" Tech Stuff Folder Quick Look fixes an all-time Mac grievance for free This is pretty slick, very useful, and free to use. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and T...

Weekend Reading — Prime minister of France for 15 minutes

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Weekend Reading — Ancient Ruins link (t)wink Tech Stuff How I Use AI An ever growing list of ways in which David Bauer uses AI for work, life and play. Includes some interesting prompts. I took one to help Claude write for bre...

Weekend Reading — Ancient Ruins

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Weekend Reading — KVICK SÖRT KVICK SÖRT Tech Stuff Tangled Interesting 🤔 If GitHub bumped into Bluesky, a social-enabled git collaboration platform using atproto. LLM Rankings: The New Battleground Welcome to the menti...

Weekend Reading — KVICK SÖRT

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Weekend Reading — The Yeet Sheet Laura Manach Tech Stuff How to keep package.json under control With the latest npm hacks adding a cooldown period to installs should be regarded as standard security practice. Now available in p...

Weekend Reading — The Yeet Sheet

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Weekend Reading — The battle at Git's Hub elle "All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes" Tech Stuff sonner When you want a nicely designed React toast component. I just started using it in my project and it's pret...

Weekend Reading — The battle at Git's Hub

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Weekend Reading — Geiger counter brettezeleliquide Spoonbill bird in flight. Tech Stuff Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran The road from 8-bit Assembly to English-as-Code: This gives an entirely new meaning to Knuth’s “litera...

Weekend Reading — Geiger counter

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Weekend Reading — First rule of Eight Club: no typos Natasha Jay “Biker gang - believe this group are leaders in the illegal cat nip trade ...” Tech Stuff looks-same Nice library for visual regression testing, when you need to compare images from ...

Weekend Reading — First rule of Eight Club: no typos

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