This is going to sound so simple that most of you will discount it entirely: I only allow myself to drink coffee when I am at my desk or in front of a keyboard doing creative, needle moving work. Crazy, I know. But the thing is that the context surrounding a cup of coffee now Pavlov’s me into writing, coding, and...

Ok, you all probably remember last fall, when the Muskening happened. When Mastodon saw a massive influx of new members. When Mastodon admins were struggling to keep up with the influx but ultimately showed that the network can, in fact, scale up. It was, in my view, the biggest stress on the ActivityPub protocol --...

useEffect can be challenging to understand, and manipulating exactly when it runs is a good skill to have!

I don't have a games console but really wanted to play Cyberpunk 2077 when it came out and Google Released it on Stadia so I go the package. It included a Chromecast Ultra and a very nice hand controller. Sadly, as with many Google forays, they decided to Sunset Stadia and it closed down on the 18th Jan 2023. The...

kicking off 2023 (in february, lol), with a quick note about something I want to do: create small utility pages that I (and only me, this is not to satisfy anyone else) find useful, instead of googling them and having to fight junky SEO pages to get xyz info example: I repeatedly google lorem ipsum to get the actual...

We used to write CSS like this: a { color: blue;}a:hover { color: lightblue;} This kinda sucked for a lot of reasons. First, it means that our code is split up and disassociated from itself a bit. Second, because it gets harder to read larger chunks of code. So languages like Sass and Less came out which allowed us...