windups: cool text effects in React Windups is a super-cool, open source (MIT-licensed) typewriter effect library for React. Via Josh Comeau Evidence-based software engineering book I haven’t read this yet, but Derek Jones’s Evidence-based Software Engineering book (freely available as a PDF) appears to …

Beldi: Fault-tolerant and Transactional Stateful Serverless Workflows I haven’t read this yet, but it’s worth saving a record of Fault-tolerant and Transactional Stateful Serverless Workflows by Haoran Zhang, et al. “Stateful” and “serverless” don’t generally go together, which …

Hyperformula Hyperformula is an open source (though AGPL, requiring a commercial license for commercial use) JavaScript library that is essentially a spreadsheet without the UI. It’s not one of those little eval things, though. It’s got a real spreadsheet engine that manages dependencies and efficient …

The conservative media ecosystem Matthew Sheffield, self-described former conservative activist and journalist, explains the conservative media ecosystem. What I did not realize until I began expanding my work into creating actual media and reporting institutions such as the Washington Examiner (I was the founding …

Tailwind Cheat Sheet This Tailwind CSS Cheat Sheet looks like it will be useful, should I end up using Tailwind in a project.

Masks don’t decrease O2 saturation Good research news related to COVID-19: Non-medical masks do not reduce oxygen saturation levels in older people

There are some notes on useful regular expressions Looking for lines that don’t contain a word Stack Overflow has the answer here Want to match lines without “notpresent”? ^((?!notpresent).)*$ Removing duplicate lines in VS Code From toniguga.it: Use this regular expression: ^(.*)(\n\1)+$ Along with a …

The Republican Party is more illiberal A Swedish university’s study has shown that today’s Republican party in the US resembles autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey. This is what many of us are complaining about and worried about. Policy differences are fine. Differences around basic democracy are not.

Amy Siskind’s list of Trump’s norm-breaking Experts in authoritarianism advise keeping a list of things changing, subtly, around you, so you’ll remember. Since Trump was elected, Amy Siskind has been making a list every week of norms that have been violated. She has now collected a condensed version of …

Bubbletea library for CLI UIs Bubbletea is a Go library for creating UIs for the command line. It’s based on the Elm architecture and there are pre-made components available for it. A list of postmortems Systems can fail in many ways, and Dan Luu has created a list of public post-mortems.