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OuterVale

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Front-end developer, designer, writer, and avid user of the superpowered information superhighway.

You can find me at https://vale.rocks

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parakeet.co 6d ago

The Shape of Apps

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www.theverge.com 7d ago

Google and Epic stop fighting – third-party Android app stores coming next week

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lyra.horse 25d ago

A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals

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vale.rocks 1mo ago

Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies

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wordpress.org 1mo ago

WP23

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vivaldi.com 2mo ago

Vivaldi 8.0

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wil.to 2mo ago

LLemdashes

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personalsit.es 2mo ago

PersonalSit.es

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mullvad.net 2mo ago

Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic

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jan.miksovsky.com 2mo ago

How and Why I Journal

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mina86.com 2mo ago

Accessibility of date formats (and superiority of YYYY-MM-DD)

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blog.jim-nielsen.com 2mo ago

Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

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nik.digital 2mo ago

Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes

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piccalil.li 3mo ago

The end of responsive images

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blog.terrygodier.com 3mo ago

App Store Reviews Are Busted

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www.theregister.com 3mo ago

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

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bsky.app 3mo ago

My GitHub Suspension, a Thread

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meodai.github.io 3mo ago

Heerich.js – A tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG

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www.404pagefound.com 4mo ago

404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0

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vale.rocks 4mo ago

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces

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www.404pagefound.com 4mo ago

404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0

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tompassarelli.org 4mo ago

Fennec – single CSS file that makes Firefox usable

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www.keithcirkel.co.uk 4mo ago

What's My JND?

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moonforgelinux.org 4mo ago

Moonforge

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test.roelof.info 4mo ago

Federated Systems Dissapear

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npmx.dev 4mo ago

npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry

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blog.jquery.com 6mo ago

jQuery 4

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polypane.app 6mo ago

Not All Browser APIs Are "Web" APIs

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scratchpad.starlightjen.com 6mo ago

Scratchpad – A Throwaway Notepad for Developers

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gwern.net 6mo ago

Poetry HTML Typesetting

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She linked to it on her social media and got the word out to people that know her. I don't think she expected it to 'break containment' like this.

It is also a post located on her own personal website, which naturally contains information about herself and is focussed around herself.

I don't think there is any 'mistake' here.

Free the Icons 23 days ago

My personal take is that icons should conform to the squircle, but have a permitted amount of break out from the core shape. For example, Audio Hijack’s icon as presented in the article should be allowed to have the microphone extend past the border slightly. The squircle should be mandated as the core shape, but with just tad bit of flexibility and shape definition.

This keeps grids feeling proper, organised, and aligned, without feeling like the icons of Android Honeycomb.

The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025 where he wrote:

There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. […] I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

Do a get a biscuit or something for somehow managing this?

Interestingly on the Harmonic client on my Android phone it is claiming -10 points. Very odd.

Flipdiscs 3 months ago

Interestingly, I've never noticed any stuck discs. I'm pretty observant of them as well, because I think they're so cool.

Flipdiscs 3 months ago

They've been slowly replacing the flip-disc displays on the buses where I live with LEDs and LCD panels which has been such a shame. There is a beautiful mechanical satisfaction to a panel of flip-discs inverting and I genuinely find them easier to read.

I use mine for all sorts. I volunteer at a second-hand shop so use it to set up remotes for donated media devices, I've used it to run scripts to apply the same changes to many computers that aren't on a group policy via BadUSB, I've used it for toys-to-life games, and very much more. There are plenty of genuine uses if you're cluey.

The interface seemed to function as normal, but specifically the API was targeted, which left a lot of confused users who were seeing the interface peppered with errors. Watching as it unfolded, it seems it affected certain regions to begin with and then slowly spread worldwide.

Seems they might have failed to host the status page (https://status.bsky.app) separately as well, because that went down several times throughout the outage. They also weren't very active in updating the status page, and the notice that was there had a typo of 'reginos' and a description of 'null'.