20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2026-03-14

2127.

How I fought my smartphone addiction

ploum.net/2026-03-13-phone_addiction.html

Ploum got an eink phone and stopped taking it for walks, and thus got his addiction in check.

2025-04-02

1853.

Does the Dvorak keyboard increase typing speed?

skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2975/does-the-dvorak-keyboard-increase-typing-speed

TL;DR: yes but not much

2025-03-23

1839.

I see, I can draw!

www.ninakalinina.com/notes/iseeidraw

After reading Blue Period, Nina got inspired and invested time into learning how to draw, following guidelines from a book. She shared her learnings from the journey. Very inspiring! Can I draw? Should I learn how to?

2025-02-01

Reposted 1738.

Нога-во-рту — Википедия

ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Нога-во-рту

Эффект «нога-во-рту» (англ.foot-in-the-mouth) — психологический феномен, который показывает, что человек, ответивший на «ритуальный» вопрос («Как ваши дела? Как вы себя чувствуете?») «ритуальным» ответом («Хорошо», «Все в порядке»), в дальнейшем даст принудительно положительный ответ на просьбу о помощи.

2025-01-16

1723.

The HTTP QUERY Method

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe,
idempotent request method that can carry request content.

2025-01-02

1684.

Oversimplified History of Retro Game Consoles for Programmers

pikuma.com/blog/game-console-history-for-programmers

As game developers, we can learn a lot from the past. Let's look at the history of game consoles to understand the driving forces that helped shape the modern gamedev technologies we use today.

2024-12-31

1674.

Как мы перенесли игру «Герои меча и магии III» на 1С

infostart.ru/1c/articles/2208631

Я Федор, ведущий разработчик 1С. На хакатоне компании команда под моим руководством перенесла игру «Герои меча и магии III» на платформу 1С. Расскажу, как устроена конфигурация «1С: Герои меча и магии» с технической точки зрения.

2024-10-18

1564.

Славеница

slavenica.com

Конвертор в дореволюционную ортографию.

2024-08-22

Reposted 1457.

I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It

switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it

2024-08-12

1439.

Why RichText facets in Bluesky

pfrazee.com/blog/why-facets

Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?

// slightly simplified
{
  text: "Hello @bob.com",
  facets: [
    {feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
  ]
}

2024-06-27

Reposted 1347.

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

2024-01-01

1003.

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

danluu.com/seo-spam

Are search results getting worse? Yes, they are. Also, Marginalia is quite nice. Maybe I should give it a go as my main search engine?

2023-12-02

944.

Screens, Research and Hypertext

screensresearchhypertext.com

2023-11-16

867.

NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go

www.uber.com/blog/nilaway-practical-nil-panic-detection-for-go

A linter for Go that finds nil panics. It found several potential nil panic in Betula and Mycorrhiza codebases that I didn't bother fixing.

2023-10-15

755.

The Line of Death

textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything

2023-10-12

692.

Carbon Dating HTML @ marginalia.nu

www.marginalia.nu/log/66-carbon-dating

2023-07-27

521.

Paletro

appmakes.io/paletro

Command Palette in any applications

You don't really need it though. Just use the built-in menu items search.

2023-06-11

315.

rss-git — alexander cobleigh / cblgh.org

cblgh.org/rss-git

using rss to generate permissionless social activity feeds for source code repositories

2023-05-19

251.

The Browser — WorldWideWeb NeXT Application

worldwideweb.cern.ch/worldwideweb

HTML-based asset library and background on the WorldWideWeb NeXT browser

The first browser

2023-01-19

4.

Anton Zhiyanov

antonz.org

One of my most favorite technical blogs out there. The author has an excellent taste in everything. I've been following him for years.

Ещё по-русски есть: https://antonz.ru