20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-06-16

Reposted 1945.

CSS Classes considered harmful

www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful

The solution to all of these problems

I humbly put forward that modern web development provides us all the utilities to move away from class names and implement something much more robust, with some fairly straightforward changes:

Attributes

Attributes allow us to parameterise a component using a key-value representation, very similar to Map<string, T>. Browsers come with a wealth of selector functions to parse the values of an attribute.

2025-06-07

1936.

Announcing the Lasso Read-it-Later Service

nytpu.com/gemlog/2022-11-05

A Gemini page saver. Betula will one day get the ability to save Gemini documents btw, on an April's Fool's maybe :-)

2025-05-21

1913.

Flag Designer - Tennessine

tennessine.co.uk/flags

Tennessine's free flag maker! Easily create a custom flag design, then download, share, and print. Add images, shapes and filters - draw your perfect flag!

2025-05-09

1894.

@kevin Ali’s Uyghur Kitchen Megathread

unnamed.website/posts/alis-uyghur-kitchen-megathread

Everything you've always wanted to know about a random restaurant in Boston

I should go there

2024-12-25

1649.

so i've been playing j2me games

blog.cathoderaydude.com/doku.php?id=blog:so_i_ve_been_playing_j2me_games

so i've been playing j2me games for 20 years I've regarded “phone games” as absolute dog shit, unworthy of even a second glance. i have recently discovered that this only applies to smartphone games - despite “resident evil for flip phones” being a

1648.

Fun Fediverse Development

funfedi.dev

Detailed (?) look at how existing ActivityPub implementations work.

2024-02-02

1089.

archive.ph

archive.today

Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracyand provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page

2024-01-20

1064.

Topic Challenge: The Social Lives of Bees - Björn Wärmedal

warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-10-06-topic-challenge-the-social-lives-of-bees.html

bees

2023-12-02

947.

Confessions of an Abstraction Hater

250bpm.com/blog:144

Somehow, longer functions are good.

2023-11-26

919.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation

The Dunning-Kruger effect states that incompetent people overestimate their competence. You've heard of that before, probably. Turns out, there is a major error in the statistics: the effect is actually nothing more than an autocorrelation. If we measure the stuff correctly, the effect disappears.

2023-11-21

894.

Providing Meaningful Search Results Without Own Index? - Björn Wärmedal

warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-07-02-providing-meaningful-search-results-without-own-index.html

2023-10-23

813.

Language Tour - Uiua Docs

www.uiua.org/tour

Overly exciting Uiua introduction. Take a look!!

2023-10-12

724.

Why Clojure is Dense

xahlee.info/comp/clojure_is_hard_to_learn.html

Xah dislikes Clojure for the reasons listed.

691.

Recent Changes is back

alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-09-recent-changes

2023-10-07

679.

Generating forward indexes for Oddµ

alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-09-20-forward-indexes-for-oddmu

2023-09-23

631.

Writing safe-to-use Go libraries

blog.orsinium.dev/posts/go/safe-api

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

2023-08-23

584.

Internet russe, l'exception qui vient de loin

www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2017/08/LIMONIER/57798

La Russie est en effet l’un des seuls pays à disposer d’un écosystème presque complet de plates-formes et de services indépendants de ceux de la Silicon Valley, fondés par des Russes et régis par le droit russe.

2023-08-11

558.

The Great Archives

thegreatarchives.com

A different Bionicle story reference. I like the name.

2023-06-19

384.

Encycla

encycla.com

2023-05-09

236.

Victor (@vponamariov)

notabird.site/vponamariov/status/1385570318673235971

How user interface evolved for the past 40 years ✨