Bookmarks from 2024
111 bookmarks from 2024
The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)
:::note This article was updated in response to some helpful comments on Hacker News. I originally incorrectly formatted the Pacific Time Zone daylight saving times relative to the Eastern Time Zone!…
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.
Nintendo completely sat out the video game graphics wars. It’s winning anyway. - Sherwood News
What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money.
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) – charity.wtf
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dir…
AI Act is Here
The European Union enabled the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first-ever legal framework on AI, addressing its risks and positioning Europe as a leader in AI legislation. This article reviews the AI Act, the different risk categories, and how (and when) it will impact developme
The Curse of Knowledge - Ness Labs
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have enough background to understand.
Categories of leadership on technical teams | benkuhn.net
overall direction • people management • project management • technical leadership • example divisions of labor
Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues | Brightball
Their creator has disavowed them. The measure and definition is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable timelines, are easily gamed, demotivate and degrade the performance of your team.
Are We Really Engineers?
This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the
How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several exp
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from th
Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
Five patterns to help Single Page Applications fetch data from remote sources
2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It — Smashing Magazine
The 2-page login pattern is becoming pervasive. Here are the reasons behind this design choice and alternative solutions to create a more efficient and user-friendly authentication experience.
The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple