Bookmarks from 2024
111 bookmarks from 2024
UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader
I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.
Here’s What a Good LGBTQ Ally Looks Like
In response to critics calling Taylor Swift’s latest video, packed with queer imagery, self-serving, here are some examples of how to be a good LGBTQ ally,
The Assimilationist, or: On the Unexpected Cost of Passing as a Trans Woman
The trouble with finding my true self in the beauty aisles.
State of the Terminal | g.p. anders
This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also
Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi
Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community.
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots - Cybernetist
It all started as a joke. I was in a group chat with a few of my friends and we were talking about football (soccer for the American readers). I entered the chat during a mildly heated discussion about the manager of a team one of my friends supports. It was going on for a bit wh
Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy
It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?
ESA - Telling time on the Moon
A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satellite – as well as dev
How to get somebody fired using Git - DEV Community
This is Billy. He is a trainee developer working for an important company. Unfortunately...
Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James
Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create.
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
The State of Generative AI, 2024 - by Alberto Romero
A nuanced analysis and a glimpse of the future
Patterns of Legacy Displacement
Patterns for the effective modernization of legacy software systems
How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments
Join us as we tell the story of how we transitioned all of Discord’s backend and infrastructure development to a Linux-based Cloud Development Environment with the help of our friends at Coder.
First 3D-printed functional human brain tissue grows like the real thing
Researchers have used a novel technique to 3D print brain tissue whose cells developed into functional neurons that communicated with each other in a matter of weeks. The approach could be used to study the healthy and unhealthy brain or test drugs.