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Cool Links Vol. 8: February, 2025

Cool Links Vol. 8: February, 2025

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of February, 2025

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“Special Interests” and Negativity

“Special Interests” and Negativity

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Finding a community that loves something is getting increasingly harder.

Personal
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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 7: January, 2025

Cool Links Vol. 7: January, 2025

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of January, 2025

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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 6: December, 2024

Cool Links Vol. 6: December, 2024

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of December, 2024

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My De
Open laptop with apps on screen

My Default Apps: 2024

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My apps of choice for most of my daily activities.

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2024
Picture of the New York City skyline at dusk. The building lights are already on, but the sky isn't dark yet.

2024 In The Rearview Mirror

15 min read

What was good and what wasn't in 2024.

Retrospective
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text-
Three dots on a flat background

text-overflow: ellipsis on multi-line text

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Adding an automatic ellipsis to some text if it overflows its content is simple enough. But what if you want your text to have multiple lines?

Front-End
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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 5: November, 2024

Cool Links Vol. 5: November, 2024

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of November, 2024

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JOMO

JOMO is a Beautiful Thing

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JOMO is the opposite of FOMO. It's the Joy of Missing Out on stuff that's bad for you.

Personal
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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 4: October, 2024

Cool Links Vol. 4: October, 2024

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of October, 2024

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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 3: September, 2024

Cool Links Vol. 3: September, 2024

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of September, 2024

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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 2: August, 2024

Cool Links Vol. 2: August, 2024

5 min read

Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of August, 2024

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Apple
Apple Vision Pro AR glasses

Apple Vision Pro First Impressions

5 min read

Decided to jot down my first impressions of this weird device after trying it out for the first time.

Misc
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Rolep
Screenshot of the city of Orgrimmar. Lots of iron pointy buildings on a red sand terrain.

Roleplaying in Orgrimmar

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Who would have thought that interacting with people on a multiplayer game could be fun?

Games
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Cool
Cool Links Vol. 1: July, 2024

Cool Links Vol. 1: July, 2024

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Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of July, 2024

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CSS “Quantity Queries” are a thing now

CSS “Quantity Queries” are a thing now

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With the :has selector available everywhere now, there's a neat way of styling elements depending on how many elements are inside them.

Front-End
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Separ

Separating my website's content from its code

4 min read

Having an open source website is great, but having the content stored in the same spot as the code has some issues. On this post I walk through what I did to keep them separated.

Meta
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Best
A road leads into the horizon with no clear end.

Best longterm goal? Not having one

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I consider myself a pretty happy person. I do think a lot of it comes from me never really expecting much from myself. That's not as bad as it sounds.

Personal
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Autom
Automating Social Media Preview Images

Automating Social Media Preview Images

6 min read

Social media preview images are very useful if you want to attract people to your website. They're sometimes a pain to create, though. Let's automate it!

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Think

Thinking of a redesign

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I want my personal website to reflect a bit of who I am. Am I the same person I was 3-4 years ago?

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5 Yea
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5 Years of Fantinel.dev!

7 min read

My website has existed for half of my professional life now. In this post I look back at some snapshots of its history and talk about what's next.

Meta
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Ownin

Owning your stuff is pretty cool, actually

6 min read

Let's talk a bit about Obsidian, VC-funded apps, the appocalypse and how awesome Markdown life can be.

Reading Recs
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Strip

Stripping the web of its humanity

2 min read

A less human web is no good for anyone.

Reading Recs
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Progr

Progressive Enhancement (and why it matters)

8 min read

Progressive Enhancement isn't just another web jargon; it's a guiding principle shaping modern web development.

Front-End
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