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Apr 11, 2025 from Muffin Man

Apply blur to iOS status bar in PWA

On my current project, I'm making a Progressive Web App (PWA) and I was really annoyed that the status bar on iOS was completely transparentAlthough the option is called black-translucent. When the...

Apr 09, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

That health is mental

Disclaimer: Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about h...

Apr 08, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

CSS Naked Day, 2025 Edition

CSS Naked Day, 2025 Edition TL;DR:It's CSS Naked Day on this blog again. This blog post has approximately 33 words and may take 1 minutes to read. It's time for my second participation in CSS Naked...

Apr 08, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #33: Two-Hit Wonders, "Moonglass", and Trees That Love Getting Hit By Lightning

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next “Linkfest”, in which I do a psychogeographic crawl through the endless sub-basement levels of the Internet, finding the finest b...

Apr 07, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

More devops than I bargained for

Background I recently had a bit of impromptu disaster recovery, and it gave me a hunger for more! More downtime! More kubernetes manifest! More DNS! Ahhhh! The plan was really simple. I love dedica...

Apr 07, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week (and Previous Weeks) — The One With the Hand Injury

This Week (and Previous Weeks) — The One With the Hand Injury TL;DR:I signed up for new online spaces and say goodbye to old ones. I added fun stuff to my blog and fixed others. Also, despite what ...

Apr 07, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

How my selective mutism is connected to childhood trauma (part 2)

Content Warning: childhood trauma, religious trauma After sharing my last post about the connection between my selective mutism and childhood trauma, more memories and realisations have continued t...

Apr 04, 2025 from Thranpages

My Bloody Ordeal

The esteemed band 'My Bloody Valentine' announced more shows in the UK. Yet when I went to purchase presale tickets, just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Then it ended better tha...

Apr 03, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Routines of Substitution (Review)

Early post-war computing can often seem alien as terminology mixed metaphors and the pioneers brought their own distinct toolsets to the field. Thus, it seems fitting that a powerful influence on c...

Apr 03, 2025 from Muffin Man

CSS-only glitch effect

Let me show you how I created a CSS-only image glitch effect. I was working on the robot poet and wanted my robotic bard to glitch - because it felt fitting given the quality of poetry it generates...

Apr 03, 2025 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

Is AI on the way to kill the code review?

Every day I bike to work - a 35-45min ride each direction. It gives me time to think, reflect on work, but also family and random thoughts. Something that's been on my mind recently is if the (huma...

Apr 02, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Website Evolution: Q1 2025

As the first quarter of 2025 comes to an end, it’s time for another entry in the website #evolution series. This post covers versions 3.20 to 4.1. Content and Pages This section provides an overvie...

Apr 01, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

🔳 Sandboxels v1.11.1 - FOOLS-2-5 - OUT NOW 🔲

Today's a special, special day.

Mar 31, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing fo...

Mar 31, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

How to Give a Good Talk

In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc...

Mar 31, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation

I’m always interested in reading how people use language models for automating boring tasks or performing what they wouldn’t be able to do manually. In his post, Dries explores using several local ...

Mar 31, 2025 from Muffin Man

Make regular expressions easier to read

This is a simple formatting trick I use to make regular expressions more readable. The secret? Break them into multiple lines. To achieve this, format the regex as an array of strings and then conc...

Mar 31, 2025 from Michael Lynch

My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobo...

Mar 31, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Fedora on Scaleway Dedibox with bootc

For a while now, I’ve been looking into optimizing and reorganizing some of the infrastructure that powers my self-hosting services. After evaluating a few alternatives, Scaleway’s Dedibox lineup c...

Mar 30, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

Special Edition — Self-Expression

Special Edition — Self-Expression TL;DR:This website is my form of self-expression. This blog post has approximately 413 words and may take 3 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the...