
My Default Apps: 2024
2 min read
My apps of choice for most of my daily activities.
A chronological view of *everything* I've posted here, since the beginning of time (or the blog's inception, whichever comes first).

My Default Apps: 2024
2 min read
My apps of choice for most of my daily activities.

2024 In The Rearview Mirror
15 min read
What was good and what wasn't in 2024.

text-overflow: ellipsis on multi-line text
2 min read
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?

Cool Links Vol. 5: November, 2024
6 min read
Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of November, 2024
Wicked - Part I
Reviewed on Nov 30, 2024
Despite being a musical, this is pretty good! Interesting story, right amount of nostalgia, and honestly l even enjoyed some of the musical parts around the halfway point of the movie.
I just thought the final sequence was a bit drawn out so the landing wasn’t perfect. But overall, way better than I expected.
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support
Josh has always been one of my favorite bloggers, and this blog post is awesome. You’ve probably seen me talking about Progressive Enhancement before, and this article talks about browser support and figuring out how and where to progressively enhance things.
CSS Popover + Anchor Positioning is Magical
This is the best explanation of the new HTML/CSS popover API that I’ve seen. It still looks overly complex, mind you, and I’m not sure I like that API. But if you wanna find out about what it is and possible use cases, this video is a nice start!
Great article reflecting on how job descriptions usually suck and how hard it is to find a job working with the things you want to work on, especially if your expertise is in the gap between two different job descriptions. Turns out the easiest way is to try and carve out a way into the work you do best.
(No, it’s not something you use to browse horses. Unless that’s what you want to use an internet browser for.)
I love highly-specialized software that tries to solve a problem without worrying about the “regular” use cases. The Horse Browser seems like a pretty neat thing for people doing researches - it remembers, organizes and allows you to export all the links you click when doing research (or just going down rabbit holes).
I can see it being useful when writing papers or even when trying to look for a solution to a nasty bug. It’s definitely not something you’d want for regular browsing, but that’s fine. There are plenty of other browsers to use for that end.
There’s a neat review of this browser up on MacStories if you’re interested.
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system
Nowadays it seems most packages and developers expect you to use a build system like Vite, Webpack, or anything with NodeJS to build websites.
That shouldn’t be true, but if you’re ever building a simple buildless website and want to use packages, Julia Evans explain how to do that and also a bit of how the different kinds of JS modules work.
Optimize resource loading with the Fetch Priority API
Optimizing the resources your website loads is the best way of making sure it loads faster for everyone. I’ve talked before about ways of doing that, but turns out there’s a new, better way of telling browsers what they should load first!
The article has many examples of use cases, but these are my favorites:
Great analysis of how most uses of generative AIs (or at least what companies are trying to sell as use cases) are primarily selfish.
If you can’t bother to do something yourself and instead ask a computer to do it, why should you expect someone to bother reading/watching it?
The corporate use cases for this are somewhat understandable - most content on the web is written for robots, not for people, for example (I know, sad). But Apple has been recently trying to sell it as a way to have a complete emotional detachment from your family as well. We truly live in the worst timeline.
The best part about Mastodon is the lack of a “For You” algorithm. That means nobody controls what you see (except for Time, I guess, since it’s chronological).
That is also the worst part of it. Sometimes I just can’t keep up with all the posts in there.
Sill is a neat little service that checks your timeline daily and sends you an email with the most shared links in your timeline. It works really well and it’s a neat way to make sure you didn’t miss a really cool project or article from your timeline even if you have skipped social media for a day (which you should really try). And, at least for now, it’s free!
Oh, it also works with BlueSky, though I haven’t tried it with that.
A neat little web component that displays Baseline status of any web feature, that you can quickly add to any web page you want.
I might use this in future blog posts here!