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Apr 13, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W14

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? — The idea of making advertising illegal may sound silly but couldn’t agree more. I’ve been unlucky enough to work for the industry and can’t imagine a better s...

Apr 13, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

Is Generative Artificial Intelligence Useful? And Moral?

There are a ton of difficult questions to answer around generative AI. Is it useful and how useful is it? And is it moral both in the way it is built and the way it is used? Let's dig in.

Apr 13, 2025 from Caffeinspiration

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

Look at this orange: Now look at this orange: It’s the same orange. But, look how much more orange it looks with the red mesh on top of it: If you buy bags of oranges (at least at many places in th...

Apr 12, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Migrating from Fauna to Supabase

The announcement that Fauna made the decision to sunset their service hit me by surprise. The main reason for this decision seems to be money - as they’ve put it: “it is not possible to raise the c...

Apr 12, 2025 from Caffeinspiration

Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts

Sometimes I just love a good visualization, and there’s something about radar charts that makes them so approachable. Maybe it’s the asymmetry or the mapping to 2D space, but they give an immediate...

Apr 11, 2025 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

The Greater Bad-ass

My motorcycle slips on a patch of mud, the front wheel goes from under me, I hit the ground hard, parts go flying, I get the wind knocked out of me. I catch my breath then prop the bike back up. I ...

Apr 11, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério

Django: Overriding translations from dependencies

This week, I’ll continue on the same theme of my previous “Django Friday Tips” post. Essentially, we will keep addressing small annoyances that can surface while developing your multilingual projec...

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.