Paul's Weblog

I’d like to begin publishing weeknotes.

I’ve mentioned and hinted at it in various posts over the years, but at last I have released a Super Duper Official™ v1.0.0 version of my personal project: bic.

Brian announced that his book “Approachable Open Source” is, at last, available for preorder.

I’ve added a dedicated /subscribe page after implementing email subscriptions.

While reading Derek Sivers’ site I found his /ai page and decided to create my own: /ai.

Re: https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/on-the-tech-resume-inside-out/ Quick aside, yes, it’s technically spelled résumé, but except for one-off instances, I just use non-glyph characters: resume.

I totally missed this: Node has a --watch flag which you can use like so: node --watch app.js Or in your package.json’s start script: { "scripts": { "start": "node --watch app.js" } } This effectively replaces nodemon, at least for the most common…

This all started with Peter announcing that there will be Twitch.tv streams semiweekly1 for Lobsters office hours and development.

First there was GitHub Roaster and then there was GitHub Praiser and now we’re back full circle buuut this time on LinkedIn.

I attended SRCCON 2024 last week.

Re: https://lobste.rs/s/gmjtvp/q_what_do_i_title_this_article Really cool use of Simon Willison’s llm command line tool as a way to get quick answers right from your terminal.

2024-10-16 Update: this has been fixed in the upstream Kagi API (https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/issues/279) via an optional ?

“bore you to death in the best possible way” —Geoff Graham on CSS-Tricks Quick Hit #11 I had to look up rote.

Re: https://jviide.iki.fi/http-redirects (Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

tl;dr docker init can scaffold out a Docker container for your codebase.

First time at a devopsdays event.

Re: https://lobste.rs/s/3cubs0/praise_my_github_profile In response to the recent GitHub roaster.

I finally got around to reading Mythical Man-Month (MMM) as part of a casual, technical bookclub with a few friends.

Re: https://lobste.rs/s/q3tbgy/github_profile_roast A fun ny , satirical use of LLMs to roast GitHub profiles.

Yesterday I attended a local event called Wavefront which was sort of like a mini networking/conference meetup that was centered around the intersection of technology and music.

It’s been a few years since I’ve (intentionally) introduced any breaking changes to this website that you, as a reader, should have noticed.

When working on a project that uses Node, npm, or similar it’s common to use nvm to manage your Node.js version.

I found out about Val Town from a Lobsters thread and it’s pretty neat.

Re: https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68055/ten-css-one-liners-for-almost-every-project (via https://css-tricks.com/alvaro-montoro-css-one-liners-to-improve-almost-every-project/) Nice article with a bunch of one-ish-liners for CSS.

2024-10-16 Update: Escaping In-App Browsers, Revisited I recently wrote about in-app browsers as more of a piece on the history and state-of-the-state so to speak while also covering some options for “escape hatches” in Android & iOS.

tl;dr Gergely Orosz’s The Tech Resume Inside Out is free for unemployed tech folk.

Babe wake up, Paul published again: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-pitfalls-of-in-app-browsers/ This is probably one of the most research-heavy articles I’ve written to date.

It’s been a tad over 6 months since I wrote the post announcing that #100DaysToOffload was a goal for the year.

Re: https://lobste.rs/s/arffew/you_can_deeplink_specific_pdf_page and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

A recent thread on Hacker News that ran 10k+ comments from “Ask HN: Who is hiring?”

Hell yeah, published again: https://testdriven.io/blog/fastapi-htmx/ I enjoyed working with Michael on my last publication for the site TestDriven.io which he runs.

Bruno is a breath of fresh air.

I’ve been trying the Insiders version of VS Code recently.

Author’s note: Upon publishing this post, I stumbled upon info related to “fair core” and “fair source” software.

2025-01-12 Update: Reimplementing Unsplash Source I’ve been an Unsplash user for a while.

Here’s the scenario: I was working on a take-home project as part of an interview process.

Nobody should own a G1 (ZE1) Honda Insight.1 Any NiMH battery is to be considered dead/useless/75-pound-paperweight UNLESS it has an active, transferable warranty.2 Cut the white/green wire on the corner of the DC/DC converter.3 Your carpet is wet.4 Repla…

Re: https://ntietz.com/blog/blogging-affirmations/ Nicole’s post on “affirmations for bloggers” resonated with me: I’ve struggled with giving and receiving affirmations I’ve been interested in The Recurse Center for a few years I’ve wanted to write more,…

Notes and things while attending Open Source North 2024.

Briefly: human-friendly alphabets to be used in URLs & the like where similar-looking characters can cause problems: 23456789abcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTUVWXYZ Characters like 1, i, I, l, L, 0, o, and O can all look similar to each other depen…

While attending the Web Security workshop by Steve Kinney at Frontend Masters today he demoed a neat feature of the GitHub Desktop app: you can install it as a command line tool e.g. github.

This is the conclusion to my previous post where I introduced the roadtrip I went on to drive a new-to-me $2,500 2000 Honda Insight with over 190k miles all the way back home 2,000+ miles to MN.

Author’s note: Minnebar 18 was this past weekend.

Also, it has nearly 200,000 miles on the odometer.

At this month’s JavaScriptMN virtual meetup, I learned that VS Code has a builtin web browser called Simple Browser.

Nice!

How much coffee is in your coffee?

I’d like to briefly cover my notation for tracking hand-ground coffee size, specifically with hand grinders where you can rotate it more than 360 degrees.

Update 2024-03-04: I found out today that on March 1st the CEO of DigitalOcean posted (1, 2) that he met with Chris Coyier and they are “find[ing] a path forward to bring CSS-Tricks back” that “hopefully includes Chris Coyier in some capacity.”

Update 2024-03-01: Apple backed off: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-backs-off-killing-web-apps/ Briefly: Apple is killing Progressive Web App (PWA) support.