Actually, complete history of innovation in pencils in Japan. For some years I wanted to get my hands on one of these, but it was hard to justify it. I have so many pencils left over from school days, my pencil consumption rate, which is probably higher than yours, is low, and I'll probably never finish them all. But maybe there's truly some magic in those Mitsu-Bishis?

An analogy between coat racks, desire paths, arguing, vacuuming, reading, social media, drinking, vacations, and colonoscopies.

• Приложения для сбора хайлайтов из статей и книг не помогают запоминать прочитанное

• Для того, чтобы запоминать прочитанное не нужна хорошая память

• Лучший способ запомнить прочитанное — понять то, что ты прочитал

• Чтобы на самом деле понять прочитанное, нужно приложить усилия

• Объясняй другим идеи, чтобы лучше понимать и запоминать их

• Заведи блог

• Участвуй в сетевых дискуссиях

• Откажись от автоматизации

The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web.
A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview.
Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.

Book on htmx

Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser.

It's about dinosaurs, not VCS.

French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study shows

Schroeder finds out he doesn't need Sitelen Mute, his custom gallery static site generator, anymore, since his wiki can host images just fine. It just shows how universal wikis are again!

An unofficial Google Nearby Share app for macOS

The Go standard library is full of bad design choices from the perspective of safety of use.

Tobias tells us how a proper app theming mechanism is basically impossible in GNOME, and application ecosystems in general.

“Users” want a lot of things, but just because you want something impossible that doesn’t make it possible. In this case, it’s important to be aware of the costs of giving complete visual freedom to “themes”, both in individual app developer effort, and chilling effects on the ecosystem. If given a choice between customization and more, better apps, I’m confident the majority of people would prefer the latter.

Note that Betula is much more open to customization with CSS. It's a literal setting! I don't use it, of course. If I want to change something visually, I just push it upstream. Y'all folks can do the same, of course, but I won't accept everything. So you've got custom CSS. I think it works well.

This may seem a strange heading for someone whose career is in computers, yet I feel that this article has been a lifetime in the making. It is the product of intuitive observations and things that have stood out to me, even as a child, who even then could sense the sinister side of the most banal of technologies.

The 8-Bit Guy and a big team have made a Commodore descendant.

Psychologically, hoarding behaviour is rooted in fear, particularly of deprivation, or uncontrolled change, perhaps with unresolved loss or attachment to old patterns as a deeper cause. Hoarders can't move on. They cannot select what to throw out, because their value judgements are disrupted.

This page provides four different readability algorithms, implemented using the Open Source Markdown Editor Zettlr.