20 random bookmarks

2025-10-24

137.

How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager

justoffbyone.com

2025-07-31

127.

A dive into open chat protocols

wiki.alopex.li/ADiveIntoOpenChat

2025-06-16

118.

CSS Classes considered harmful

www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful

The solution to all of these problems

I humbly put forward that modern web development provides us all the utilities to move away from class names and implement something much more robust, with some fairly straightforward changes:

Attributes

Attributes allow us to parameterise a component using a key-value representation, very similar to Map<string, T>. Browsers come with a wealth of selector functions to parse the values of an attribute.

2025-05-23

112.

Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway? | natkr's ramblings

natkr.com/2025-04-10-async-from-scratch-1

There are a lot of guides about how to use async Rust from a "user's
perspective", but I think it's also worth understanding how it
works, what those async blocks actually mean.

110.

honk

humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk

Take control of your honks and join the federation.
An ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs.
Spend more time using the software and less time operating it.

2024-11-20

88.

On "Safe" C++

izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx

2024-10-16

83.

Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways

bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference

2024-09-02

70.

Parsing awk is tricky

www.raygard.net/awkdoc/pages/awk_parsing_is_tricky.html

A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language

2024-08-28

69.

There can't be only one

www.b-list.org/weblog/2024/aug/27/highlander-problem

There's a concept that I've heard called by a lot of different names, but my favorite name for it is …

2024-08-18

68.

Permacomputing

permacomputing.net

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

2024-06-28

57.

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

2024-06-26

53.

A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference

reasonableapproximation.net/2019/05/05/hindley-milner.html

2024-06-20

47.

Go's 'range over function' iterators and avoiding iteration errors

utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIteratorsAndAvoidingMistakes

2024-06-19

42.

Pimalaya

pimalaya.org

Official website of the Pimalaya project.

2024-06-17

37.

Sqlc: 2024 check in — brandur.org

brandur.org/fragments/sqlc-2024

2024-06-14

34.

Nix as a WebAssembly build tool

determinate.systems/posts/nix-wasm
33.

A useful shell prompt

blog.meain.io/2022/my-shell-prompt

Featureful zsh prompt.

32.

Putting Go's Context package into context

blog.meain.io/2024/golang-context

2024-06-13

20.

My personal C coding style as of late 2023

nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08

2024-06-11

8.

gamja: Simple IRC web client

sr.ht/~emersion/gamja