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I once posted a picture of an email stating my train was delayed in French. So the word 'retard' appeared in it. Instagram banned me from monetization or partnerships or something …

GPS watch. Although I did accidentally run back where I came from for a bit O_o

It might be. I ran 30h race earlier this year and had no hallucinations. I've not done _exhaustive_ research on this, I'm just recalling some undergrad neuropsychology. It could al…

Ha ha, the t-shirt wasn't even that nice :p

I've never experienced auditory hallucinations before. I did however do a 42 hour self navigated run last year with 0 sleep. After about 30 hours I was visually hallucinating prett…

I had do not disturb on by accident the whole day yesterday. It was great, it made be wonder if I should enable it permanently. As the technical founder of a startup, I suspect it'…

I believe these are the people behind the asyncpg Postgres library for Python. We use it daily, thanks :)

There is a related video by minute physics about how the RGB color space stores the square root of the brightness of each color channel, because human color perception is roughly l…

Lottie files can be converted, with some limitations, to native SVG SMIL animations via bodymovin-to-smil [1]. With SMIL animations you save 66.6k worth of gzipped javascript [2] a…

I have an emoji prefixed to my name on LinkedIn so whenever someone starts an email with: "Hi Rickert", I know it's an automated message.

It apparently also lacks good color management. https://www.reddit.com/r/wayland/comments/ihi1wm/xwayland_ov...

Lots of ideas, few commitments. I guess this is positive.

We got hit by this on Saturday night :|

As someone who lives in South Africa, it's quite frustrating to travel when you realise your money isn't worth shit in most developed countries. It financially restricts where you …

I had an interesting experience sorting exam papers when I was a TA. I found that quicksort used up too much desk/floor space. I settled on splitting the papers into piles of 10 or…

I love the analysis in this post. I think utility functions along with a set of design tokens (Styled System [1] / ThemeUI [2]) is a better mechanism and achieves the same end goal…

Something something GDPR?

737-800, I guess I'll be okay

Nice headline to see as I'm about to board a 737 :\

I certainly won't be building any Gmail add-ons soon/ever.

If you assume that people tend to consider all options before making a choice, putting the primary action on the right makes sense. If you put the primary action on the left, a use…

"As a bonus, fit tin cans to both ends and you get voice as well as broadband on the same wet string!" Ha!

> Regarding everything being destructed at once: that’s called an arena Thats such a great name :)

Reminds me of Ali G's ice cream glove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48TR0vUPQCs