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Andreas Gohr
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It’s common for a table design to feature alternating row colors, which is pretty trivial to accomplish with CSS. But then if you need to hide some rows later, the striped background gets all messed up. Or at least it used to. It turns...
I’ve been thinking about AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) a lot over the last few days. After working as a PHP developer at a company back in 2009 and then moving to New Zealand to do a PG Diploma in Computer Science, I remember...
Ich habe mal wieder ein Kunstprojekt gemacht. Dieses Mal war die Grundidee: Ich nehme konzentrische Kreise und einen Punkt. Der Punk (dargestellt als kleiner Kreis) bewegt sich durch das Bild, und die Kreise verschieben sich in Richtung...
Weird switches Another time-consuming but deeply rewarding home repair. I love my 43-year-old Technics SU-Z15 amplifier far too much to replace it, and I’ve no excuse when there’s a detailed YouTube video of a Turkish chap repairing the...
dreamOS Vega Crazy Error 2026-03-16 · License: · Tags: video free software meme touhou dreamOS is a fictional free/libre operating system designed by me, it is my vision of what a desktop operating system should look like. The icons,...
I recently read Klara and the Sun, my third Ishiguro novel. Halfway through, my impatience got the better of me; I was ready to label this the worst Ishiguro novel I've ever read. But I eventually came around. While Klara lacks the...
There is a trick that is spreading through social media. If you block the claude user on GitHub, then each time you visit a GitHub repository that has commits by this user you get a banner at the top alerting you of the user's...
Step aside, phone! Yesterday evening, as I was browsing some of the blogs I enjoy reading, I stumbled upon the post “Step aside, phone” by Manu, who started a challenge open to anyone interested: For almost two years now, I’ve been...
I think measuring my success as a leader is simple: everyone on my team should experience the high of feeling really good at what they do. If this is the case, we'll deliver what the business needs us to deliver. Our employees will grow,...
Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel. It asked me a few questions, then filled both perfectly. (Better than I could—when I did the same via Excel for macOS, I broke the lookup formulas.) Welcome to the...
Last weekend, I played a fun little indie game called Real Life Soft Lock Picking. To play, just lose your phone, wallet, and keys all at the same time. You will then be soft locked: despite every system in the world working as intended,...
Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋 Have you heard of BEMoji? Do you know what a CloseWatcher is for? And how confidently do you use aria-label? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find some answers below. Enjoy! Do you want to share your favorite song...
After a quiet, normal Monday, I got up early on Tuesday morning, packed all my kit onto my bike, and set out for Herefordshire around 06:00. As well as my tent, clothes, laptop, and a prudent amount of food and water, I was also carrying...
Compute I said that it’s likely that AI layers commoditize like everything else has. The harness, the planning loop, tools use patterns, the memory files, the protocols, context management, etc. I have watched ideas in this layer go from...
March 20, 2026 Many of the best things on the internet were created by humans. Indeed, I would be confident enough to say virtually all of them. However, these days an awful lot of the crap on the internet is churned out by non-humans....