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I ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS

I just added my site to the list. Cool stuff!

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I ❤️ RSS!

It's pretty rad.

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I hate computers so much. Only 10 minutes into the day, and already dealt with two bullshit problems.

  • Volume control was not working on MacBook Pro laptop. Restarting the machine fixed the problem.
  • Airfoil couldn't connect to a Satellite. Restarting Airfoil fixed the problem.

If that was the first 10 minutes, I imagine by the 4th hour I'll have put all of these cursed machines directly into the trash.

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New dumb thing I think I'll start, #typos. First up...

udpate

I do this so fucking much.

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Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

Two of my nerdiest interests together in one blog post.

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The Whispering Earring

The earring is never wrong.

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US AI Stock Sell-Off Shakes Markets From Wall Street To Asia

SpaceX fell 16%

I’m sure this will be fine.

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HTTP status code reference

I find myself going to the MDN page for HTTP status codes regularly enough that I thought a nice little table of the codes could be helpful. I'm sure something like this exists, but after approximately 26 seconds of searching for it, I gave up, and now the world is cursed with this.

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POWER-PILL/ASCII-Aquarium

ASCII Aquarium turns your Cheap Yellow Display into an tiny animated ASCII fish tank. It renders a live aquarium scene with animated fish, bubbles, swaying seaweed, tap-to-feed food flakes, occasional octopus & seahorse visitors, selectable backgrounds, preferences, optional Wi-Fi clock sync, & More!

Seems like a good use of under $20.

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The Loop: everything has happened before, and everything will happen again

We're very good at making the loops run faster.

We're not so good at stopping them.

We're very dumb monkeys.

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kepano/defuddle: Get the main content of any page as Markdown.

Might need to switch out Readability for this. Seems cool. HT to Matt Birchler. He's making a new "read later" service and using this to parse the content out of pages.

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pastey

I made a dumb thing with the robots because of something Josh said, and that I'd been wanting for chatting on IRC.

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Pastey

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louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool.

Also definitely giving this a try. H/T to Joshtronic

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Coolify

An open-source & self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway for easily deploying websites, databases, web applications and 280+ one-click services to your own server.

I'll definitely be giving this a go.

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Design Engineering 101: Typeahead

A lovely typeahead component by Florian Schulz. HT to Marcin Wichary for sharing. And the "screenshots" are interactive!! Very cool stuff here.

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Windows 3.1 Wallpaper

HT Josh Sherman

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The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat

Good read. Learned that I don't need chalk if I want fancy colors in my console output.

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Death to Scroll Fade! – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

David Bushell just got a new subscriber to his blog with this brilliant post.

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Custom MacOS App Icons with IconRulesAgent

On MacOS, you can very easily change app icons. I was toying around with that, getting rid of squicles in Tahoe, and figured it would probably be pretty easy to get a robot to make an app to do that for me. To that end, with a lot of help from the robots, I have created "Ico...

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I Can Only Count to FOUR

HT to BoingBoing for this delightful video.

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Interface Sound Effects

From Louie Mantia:

Playing Nintendo games—even just using Nintendo Switch 2 software—makes me wish macOS was flooded with lots of interface sound effects. For clicking down, up, resizing windows, minimizing windows, zooming windows, dragging windows, clicking buttons...

Agreed. I miss all the fun sound effects (and nicer UI) from the good old days.

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The Verge: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

IRC, anyone?

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The quality shop · mzll

HT to Eric Schwarz for introducing me to Luigi by way of this excellent post. I immediately subscribed to his RSS feed and I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say in the future.

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RSS Icon :-)

I added an RSS icon in the footer. I stole it from LMNT. It looks slick as hell.

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Maybe I'll switch back later, but for now I've jumped ship to #Waterfox because of all the #AI garbage coming to #Firefox. It's been about a week and I'm really loving it.

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Dank Linux

I saw this a couple weeks ago and while the name is undeniably horrible, I thought it looked so slick. So I took an old 2013 #MacBook Pro, threw #Arch on it, and here I am, a couple weeks later writing code, pushing updates to things, and really loving the tiling window manager life.

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Making macOS Bearable

Some cool stuff in here I might have to try, like VIM-ing out my whole OS.

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Things I Waste My Time On: Part 1

Relay chat server in Bun. Yes, I know about IRC, but I just wanted to do something fun and goofy.

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This was a good use of my weekend nights, right?

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Festivitas adds snow, Shortcuts, iPhone widgets to its holiday package

Good old goofy fun for your deskotp.

Let it snow! Last year Developer Simon Støvring released Festivitas, a delightful app that lets you adorn your Mac’s Dock and Menu Bar with holiday lights.…

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Ancient Data Storage

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They certainly are cool