20 random bookmarks

2025-09-23

134.

Cap'n Web: A new RPC system for browsers and web servers

blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library

Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.

2025-08-25

130.

Everything I know about good API design

www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design

2025-08-21

129.

A Brief Guide to A Few Algebraic Structures

argumatronic.com/posts/2019-06-21-algebra-cheatsheet.html

I started writing this post because, for whatever reason, I keep forgetting what the difference is between a ring and a group, which is funny to me because I never forget the difference between a semiring and a semigroup – although other people do, because it’s quite easy to forget! So, I wanted a fast reference to the kinds of algebraic structures that I am most often dealing with in one way or another, usually because I’m writing Haskell (which has some reliance on terminology and structure from abstract algebra and category theory) or I’m trying to read a book about category theory and they keep talking about “groups.” Wikipedia, of course, defines all these structures, and that’s fine, but what I need in those times is more of a refresher than an in-depth explanation.

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.

2025-01-21

99.

Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us

2024-12-17

92.

Building GBA Games in Rust

shanesnover.com/2024/02/07/intro-to-rust-on-gba.html

2024-11-07

87.

Proposal for a Django project template

david.guillot.me/en/posts/tech/proposal-for-a-django-project-template

My take on what could be a project template for Django advanced usage, with modern tooling (for Python and UI dependencies, as well as configuration/environment management), but not too opinionated.

2024-07-09

61.

Using use in Gleam

erikarow.land/notes/using-use-gleam

2024-06-27

56.

plainweb

www.plainweb.dev

plainweb is a framework using HTMX, SQLite and TypeScript for less complexity and more joy.

2024-06-18

38.

Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made By Hans Reiser - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-README-Linux-6.10

2024-06-17

35.

OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon

hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/openbsd-the-computer-appliance-maker-s-secret-weapon

Between our ESP32 prokaryotic organisms and our 24/7 Internet-enabled megafauna servers, there exists a vast and loosely-defined ecosystem of things the B2B world likes to call computer appliances. Picture a bespoke Pi 4 packaged up neatly with some Python scripts, a little fancy plastic embossing, and maybe a well-guarded id_ed25519.pub in case you end up in hot water during the (long - very long, stable cash flow for generations long) maintenance contract, and you’re in the ballpark.

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
30.

litterbox - IRC logger

git.causal.agency/litterbox/about
29.

pounce - IRC bouncer

git.causal.agency/pounce/about

2024-06-13

25.

Solving SAT via Positive Supercompilation

hirrolot.github.io/posts/sat-supercompilation.html
23.

Macaroons Escalated Quickly

fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quickly
15.

OpenBSD extreme privacy setup

dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-06-08-openbsd-privacy-setup.html

In this article, you will learn how to install and configure OpenBSD to reduce its network activity over clearnet

2024-06-10

3.

On Dependency Usage in Rust

landaire.net/on-dependency-usage-in-rust

Rust and Node aren't bad for encouraging dependency use -- your favorite language's tools just suck.