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The bane of Tailwind is that to appreciate it, you should have in-depth experience with regular CSS. Negative opinions mostly come from people who show no understanding of CSS and …

In Eastern Europe, a lot of computer-savvy people write with em dashes. I see two reasons behind that: 1. There is a highly popular Cyrillic keyboard layout with an em dash made by…

Passkeys work well when you have password managers with multi-device sync. While it is indeed trivial to get one, consumers don't like password managers in first place. And it is v…

Idea that AI is very expensive and will not be viable without "subsidization" for personal use is very shortsighted: 1. We measure "subsidization" in relation to API pricing. API p…

This month https://thingstohave.app , my calm and flexible wishlist app, reached a state I can call "feature complete". This iteration took two years of occasional work, so it's a …

Switch from widely supported unified/rehype to own rehype-incompatible markdown tooling just for build time speed improvement is quite upsetting Good that they added a tool to keep…

Hono is a) de-facto new express with proper typescript support b) the way to write serverless code that is not nailed to current platform quirks So, yes, it’s very widely used back…

> "beginner friendly format" > looks inside > math

Kazakhstan decided to do so, but Poland always had Latin alphabet. Ukraine always had Cyrillic alphabet. There is no way, they will reject their culture just to punish foe. Also Cy…

Mullvad does more for internet privacy than any other company. There are a lot of people saying that they will not use Mullvad anymore. What are they going to do? Support ExpressVP…

Another good idea for posts, is instead of arguing* on the internet you can post your opinion as post. This will help you to structure your opinion, validate it, and may come handy…

One of the most frustrating experiences building my app was that search engine discovery doesn't work by itself. My expectation was that I would make an SSR-rendered website, with …

Just checked what your claim, and... its even worse – 1000$ in my part of EU (m4 + 16gb, aka base configuration)

It is interesting to know how it compares in terms of performance to 500$ Mac Mini with Crossover? Of course Crossover support is worse than Proton, so it will not be viable altern…

The biggest effect of AirPods was that people stopped asking you to pull out the earphones when they talk to you. At early college age I was dealing with stress that I for some rea…

> BTC essential is worth $70k solely through the power of memes Like everything else in finance... Saying this is not to defend all sorts of crypto-bros. The economy, especially on…

I'm continuing my work on https://thingstohave.app – a flexible and social wishlist app. Usually, I barely report on this thread once every few months, but this month was highly pr…

I don't understand the whole Framework thing (not 12, but in general): 1. For why would everyone want to use their laptop longer than MacBook lifespan? I'm typing this on a 5+ year…

Funny that my app already uses custom feature flag solution built on... Cloudlfare Workers

Here are the things I don't like in React. Keep in mind that React is a framework to draw interactive HTML on screen, not for some crazy programming. 1. Over-reliance on complex co…

I'm working on requested features for my social wishlist app https://thingstohave.app : image uploading, passkeys and more clear list organization UI. Everything is in polishing st…

I believe it is common for governments to do wiki editing as PR strategy. I actively browse Wikipedia in English, Polish and Russian, and see a lot of traces of government efforts.…

As many others I had negative (not good as before) feeling about Claude Code lately What I don't understand is these loud "voting with money" comments. What they are canceling is v…

My usual reminder that actually Mozilla has a lot of money (mostly from Google), and, for example, donates six figure numbers to random political organizations not related to brows…