reactgrid reactgrid is a nice-looking spreadsheet React Components. What happens if a Presidential nominee can no longer run for office? The American system of government has some gaps, which is not surprising given how old its founding documents are. The closer we get to election day and, even worse, once past …

How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face Ben Kuhn’s article about fixing video calls includes concrete tips and product recommendations. I thought that his points 2-4 were particularly relevant: ($10-30) If you ever have network issues, run a cable between your computer and router. You’ll probably …

There are lots of ways to generate REST or GraphQL APIs from databases. REST Supabase Supabase is an interesting idea: combine a bunch of projects together to build something like Firebase built atop PostgreSQL Supabase itself is essentially glue for all of these projects. Reminds me of TurboGears that way. Something …

Picat multiparadigm language Picat is an interesting language: Picat is a simple, and yet powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language aimed for general-purpose applications. Picat is a rule-based language, in which predicates, functions, and actors are defined with pattern-matching rules. Picat …

The Republican party is an authoritarian outlier A 2019 survey of 2000 experts on political parties rated them on commitment to basic democratic principles and protecting rights for ethnic minorities. The Republican party is an extreme outlier when compared with parties in other wealthy democracies. Protect Democracy …

Dbmate database migration tool Dbmate is an open source (Go-based) tool for handling database migrations in a framework/language independent way with plain SQL scripts. AlpineJS I’ve wondered about a middle ground between for apps between single page apps where you’re essentially relying on JS to draw the …

Using stacked pull requests to make reviews easier Michaela Greiler details how to use stacked pull requests to make it easier to review big changes.

I help administer Jira and Confluence at Khan Academy. Generally, I get by with Googling things. These products have been around forever and anything imaginable is googleable. That said, I thought it worthwhile to start keeping track of some interesting things that might solve future problems. Jira add-ons We already …

Helpful rebuttals for racist talking points I have seen many of these talking points online in various forums, so I appreciate the sourced rebuttals in a concise form.

How Big Oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled NPR digs in to the sorry state of plastics recycling and the fact that the oil and plastics companies have known this for decades, pushing the recycling message anyhow. Plastics last a very long time in landfills (and, sadly, in the oceans). DBCore …