https://matthewstrom.com/writing/copying/

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240702-00/?p=109951

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New episodes on https://remotehack.space/live/

https://mary.codes/blog/programming/full_stack_dev_design_engineer/

You might be good at TypeScript, but if you don’t know what this project does, what it needs to do next, how to build & run & test, and so much more–you can’t move it forward.

https://jessitron.com/2024/05/11/working-with-others-is-different-from-working/

https://youtu.be/QjPU64MiyDU

The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe card, which I won’t count until I get one), it can be easy to forget that in 1977, it was a video extravaganza. The competitors– even much bigger and established companies like Commodore and Tandy– generally only had text modes, let alone pixel-addressable graphics, and they certainly didn’t have sixteen colors. (Gray and grey are different colors, right?)

https://nicole.express/2024/phasing-in-and-out-of-existence.html

https://buildingslack.com/

This looks like a neat little self-hosted RSS reader/news feed. I might give it a go, though these days I tend to start my mornings with https://brutalist.report/

https://olano.dev/blog/reclaiming-the-web-with-a-personal-reader (and a follow-up https://olano.dev/blog/from-rss-to-my-kindle )

https://hcsimulator.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9mm0YlMa9I

Following up to my earlier post (https://social.omgmog.net/2023/fiddling-around-with-a-convoluted-method-of ) I've got a less convoluted method of handling switching audio output devices from a macro keypad now.

I'm now using Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/ -- a powerful tool that lets you define all sorts of automation using Lua. This is my script for switching audio output devices: https://gist.github.com/omgmog/8c2139c9270431b7cddd93a947c9018c

I'm also now using a cheap 3-key macro pad from Aliexpress (rather than the Pimoroni RGB Keypad as I couldn't think of a good use for the rest of the keys!) that I've got bound to F12/F13/F14 keys.

https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

https://sunsetglow.net/posts/frontend-build-systems.html

This is a book about building applications using hypermedia systems. Hypermedia systems might seem like a strange phrase: how is hypermedia a system? Isn’t hypermedia just a way to link documents together?

https://hypermedia.systems/

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a-rant-about-front-end-development/

This is great! http://axio.ms//projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html

Now... what would it take to fit this inside something like the little Macintosh 128k brick set I built the other week?

https://social.omgmog.net/2024/jaki-maker-pop-personal-computer-se-1984

A novel use of font ligatures

Sans Bullshit Sans. The font that replaces every buzzword by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar

https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

https://slashpages.net/

The VR Design Paradox

https://youtu.be/Fhlw88_Beu4

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/

Fiddling around with a convoluted method of setting up macro keys on Mac OS. I'm using the old faithful Pimoroni RGB Keypad with a Pico, some basic CircuitPython keyboard stuff, and these two nifty apps:

switchaudio-osx: CLI utility to switch audio source https://github.com/deweller/switchaudio-osx icanhazshortcut: shortcut manager to bind any keyboard combo to any command https://github.com/deseven/icanhazshortcut

Anyway it's working nicely for me right now! So far I've got headphone/speaker output toggles and volume control sorted. Just 12 more keys to assign 🤔

A good explainer and diagrams of how UTF-8 works with emoji

https://sethmlarson.dev/utf-8

History, data and alcohol. Super interesting!

When did people stop being drunk all the time?

https://lefineder.substack.com/p/when-did-people-stop-being-drunk