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๐Ÿ”ฅ Weekend Reading

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Tools and products you should know about, tips about UX, management, infosec; random and funny stuff

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Weekend Reading โ€” Never

For Europeans...... Tech Stuff da_667 โ€œpeople who write javascript don't make threats, they make promisesโ€ NumberFlow - Transition and format numbers An open source component to transition, format, and localize numbers โ€” because sometimes you want the numbers to change and also look like they're changing,

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Weekend Reading โ€” More time to write

More Time to Write A fully functional clock that ticks backwards, giving you more time to write. Tech Stuff Martijn Faassen (FWIW I donโ€™t know how to use any debugger other than console.log) People tend to look down on print debugging as it's not using sophisticated

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Weekend Reading โ€” The future is reduced for quick sale

Sure is Tech Stuff What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres If youโ€™re just starting with Postgres, make sure to not repeat past mistakes. No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains Yes! โ€œOur offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you

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Weekend Reading โ€” ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Existential angst

This week we got message in a bottle, weight of our coffee beans, AI bizarre, a spying air fryer, bossa nova sound track, mental music in a smash room, and grandma advice.

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November 2nd, 2024 11 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Thingy brokey

This week we learn about timezones, build a Turing machine in LEGO, learn to turn off the Mac, turn out PDFs into brainrot, revive Snap, block the roads, get a borchestershire shot, pitch our friends, and learn to ignore deadcats.

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October 26th, 2024 8 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Voting time!

Halloween humor Hello and welcome back. If you missed me, I went on a trip for three weeks, so didn't have time to post. But I did enjoy delicious food, beautiful sites, and super fast trains. Now I'm back to posting and this weekend I'

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September 28th, 2024 10 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Our traffic light-identifying overlords

How to respond to your weird neighborโ€™s Drumph sign. Tech Stuff Mac Firewall Apps When you don't want apps broadcasting your every move out to the world: Little Snitch, LuLu, Radio Silence, and Lockdown Privacy Desktop. ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks These are really good tricks if you don'

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September 21st, 2024 9 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” โ€œTonicโ€ Masculinity

This week we race the track in an Isetta M, we clean our MacBook keyboard, we got a new wallpaper, we Agile all the Scrum Master out of Agile Grooming, put the nuclear plant in safe hands, squeeze ChatGPT into an TI-84, deliver pizza from the future, and scour the swamps.

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September 14th, 2024 9 min read

Weekend Reading โ€” Concept of a plan

This week we play Tetris on our database server, learn BASIC again, upgrade to a Victorian iPad, avert the shoplifting crisis, turn HTML back to Markdown, replace the podcast bro with AI, get unlimited data for free, and throw baby Puffins off a cliff.

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