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Aquaphor's the best thing I've found so far. Just takes a tiny bit, so whatever's left over on my fingertip gets rubbed into my knuckles which are probably also chapped.

Netflix's _How to Change Your Mind_ (based on a book with same name, I believe) has been a nice digestible look at psychedelics' uses in various therapies, now and in the past, if …

Ah, in that case: Still seems kinda risky? Like, what if someone else submits a solution for the ticket I'm in the middle of? What if my solution is valid, but not accepted? What i…

Free labor in exchange for the possibility of an interview? I think the fuck not.

ISeeChange | Back-end developer (with some devops) | Fully remote | Full-time contractor | https://www.iseechange.org/ ISeeChange is looking for a back-end developer to own our API…

Disappointing that all the images are built on the same shade of white skin. You're leaving out a whole lot of folks who are already underrepresented in a whole lot of research. I …

Giant thanks for making this. A suggestion, though: the "remote" switch should probably imply "or". A search for jobs in Chicago OR remote would be more more useful than Chicago AN…

Nice! I worked out a little proof of concept a while back for a pan-and-zoom wrapper around any ol' HTML, if that's of any interest: https://github.com/brian-c/react-zoomable I hav…

You can probably use 90% of React's functionality with like, four or five functions and four or five component lifestyle methods. What's not minimal about that?

I've had one of my package names transferred away from me with no warning, presumably after some period of inactivity. Npm as a repository seems to have gone totally insane, and I …

`curl ... | sh` installations don't really bother me. The scripts tend to be short and commented, or at least readable. Sure beats running an opaque .pkg installer, which invariabl…

So basically follow the example of pre-standards browser-specific HTML features?

In a fair world, the time and energy that went into Bower would have been spent making npm just a little bit better for front-end stuff. `npm dedupe` is halfway there. Now I have t…

Every time I start writing a new node module, I stop and see if substack (or visionmedia, for that matter) has already done it.

Yeoman makes it quicker and easier to generate boilerplate code, but I think the goal should be to eliminate boilerplate and abstract it away. Yeoman keeps spaghetti organized, but…

You can turn on Safari's awful console in the Settings app, I think under "advanced".

This is useful in a pinch, but transitioning a 100px high element from max-height 9999px to 0 means there's going to be a huge delay while it's transitioning between 9999px and 100…

It breaks returning object literals because `return` on its own line is a complete statement.

Sort alphabetically. It's not arbitrary, everybody understands it, and no tool needed. This is silly.

I really want to like this, but I can't get behind Sprockets when RequireJS and Browserify exist. Code in comments, obtuse file extensions, `require_tree`, etc. make code modulariz…

The install script takes staggering liberty with your system to fetch its dependencies. Make sure you read it before running. http://get.yeoman.io