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- How to Add an Image to Mail Signatures on iOS —
- Podcasts I Listen To —
- Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically [SATIRE] —
- What The Fuck TikTok? —
- I’ve Removed The Micro Section —
- I Tried To Use A French Press. It worked ok. —
- I Got A New Laptop 3 Years Ago and It’s Holding Up Fine —
- Is The US Visa Application Form at ais.usvisa-info.com Legit? Yes —
- What Did I Learn About Web Design From Stock WordPress Sites? Nothing Much. —
- This Website Must Be Studied For Science —
- KDEConnect Is Like AirDrop But Better —
- Follow Instructions Dummy —
- How To Get To JFK Through Mass Transit —
- This Is Probably The Greatest Milkshake Ducks of All Time —
- You Can Connect Two iDevices Together via USB and AirDrop Will Still Work —
lite-yt.html—- Onion News Network —
- My Laptop Setup —
- How To Make A WiFi QR Code —
- hi, it’s been a minute —
- Thoughts on Starlink in Zimbabwe: A Suprisingly Low Bar Zimbabwean ISPs Have Failed To Clear —
- Make your own rules: How to drive on Zimbabwe’s roads —
- God I’m Stupid —
- iPhone 16 Pro lets users capture ProRAW photos in JPEG-XL format —
- Be My Eyes —
- Ever Seen an Excel File with 17,179,869,184 Cells? —
- How To Clean Files From A Specific Drive From Windows Recycle Bin —
- Colophon —
- So InfoSec Really Does Boil Down to Mossad/Not Mossad… —
absURL.html—- Support —
- A Good Reason To Post Screenshots of Text Instead of Actual Text —
- A Script To Clear Data Sets In Adobe Illustrator —
- ZiG’s Currency Code is Now ZWG —
- Fast Crimes at Lambda School —
- I Wanna Know How Much Image Quality Do You Lose When You Attempt To Encode Images Nearly Losslessly —
render-image.html—render-link.html—- Use Accrual Accounting For Better Personal Finances —
- Why I Hate Nonsense Brands —
- YouTube Premium Is In Zim Now —
- I Haven’t Dated Much in My Life. I’m Gonna Talk About It Anyway. —
- War Dog —
- Why Don’t Podcasts Give Me FOMO? —
- 1% of Athletic’s Events Is Trans Domination, Seriously? —
- Nobody Cares About What I Blog About. Why Do I Still Do It? —
- An Intel MacBook Pro 15" for $200. —
- Don’t Expect ZIG to be a Currency Code —
- I Really Miss The Days When I Was Fitter —
- 2024 Is The Year I Destroy My Drafts —
- What Is Your City’s Samora Line? —
- You Don’t ‘Lack Follow Through’ - 5 Signs You’re Self-Regulating Through Future Fantasies —
- My CSS Reset —
- I Went To Philly—Part 1: Getting There And Settling In —
- Damn, Pig Butchering is Brutal. —
- Hugo Now Includes a Default Render Hook for Links and Images —
- The web is not dying —
- How WoolWorths grew their online retail business by 162% in 8 years —
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- MSCHF —
- Thank You “Personal Finance Writer” For Being Hilariously Scammed. We Can Learn A Lot From You —
- CFPB Takes Action Against BloomTech (Formerly Lambda School) —
- So MKBHD’s Bad Review Tanked A Company… —
- Why ZESA Vendors Charge Extra for USD Payments —
- Huh, My Long Abandoned Tumblr Site Is 1 Year Old. —
- Taylor Swift Has A Rabid Fanbase. Know Who Else Had A Rabbid Fanbase? —
- Thoughts on Zimbabwe’s New Money the ZiG —
- 9 April is Naked CSS Day —
- Subscriptions Are Good Actually, Maybe. —
- This Is One Of The Coolest USB-C Accessories Out There —
- Thinking About The Gore reNzara For No Particular Reason —
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- Happy 404 Day! —
- On disabled and aria-disabled attributes —
- s12y Means Web Sustainability —
- Apple, You Know That Tino’s… —
- I’ve Finally Found A Media Query for E-Ink Devices and It Doesn’t Work —
- Rates increase create new tension between residents, council | Suburban —
- Wait, Did The Parking Attendant Steal My Dollar? —
- When Using The Test Command ([]) In Bash, Don’t Forget To Put Spaces! —
- Here’s Some Silly Pictures I’ve Saved On My Phone —
- Remembering CSS Tricks —
- If I Shouldn’t Use Zaire, Why Is It An Option? —
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- Remember Basecamp by 37 Signals? —
- Damn, That’s a Whole Lotta Posts —
- Improving the Images on My Site Will Be Harder Than I Thought —
- The Longest Trips I’ve Taken (By Transport Mode) —
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- Can I Fix This Wifi/Bluetooth Interference With Software Only? —
- Thanks For Saving My Ass Apple! —
- Tomaž Zaman is Trying to Make a Router That’s Actually Good —
- Do The Microsoft Wallpapers Have To Go So Hard? —
- YouTube Search Sucks —
- I Think There’s A Limit To Blaming Finance Bros For Boeing’s Current Fiascos Since It’s Happened Long Before Now —
- This Consultant is Either a Bullshitter or Has Range —
- Bikeshedding Must Fall—My (Possibly Ill-fated) Attempt To Stop Overthinking This Site And To Focus on More Important Things —
- My 2024 Has Been a Huge Pain In The Ass So Far —
- The Rest of My USA Trip —
- Apple Devices is Garbage so Far —
- Please Don’t Buy a Laptop With a Celeron Processor—It’s Shit. —
- Apple Music’s Discovery Playlist Be Like… —
- I’ve Finally Finished Writing About My Trip To The US In 2022 —
- My Biggest Conspiracy Theory is That Tech Loves Scams —
- Zimbabweans Deserve Potholes for Being Shit Drivers. Fixing Them Will Only Enable Them —
- Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 —
- There’s A Portable Power Station Called Hwange —
- Time for Some Much Needed Rest and Relaxation —
- These Two Bundles of Money Are Worth The Same Yet One Is Cheaper To Ship —
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To be very clear, free speech is when you give me money
—Manchild Elon Musk —- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Reminds Me of The Days I Loved The Lonley Island —
- Threads Is A Terrifying Movie About Nuclear War Where Everything Is Bad And Nothing Good Happens —
- Formative Posts —
- The Land Usage Around Zimbabwe’s State House Is A Bit Odd… —
- SNEAKING Into A BANNED Country [VIDEO 27:48] —
- I Liked The Tetris Movie —
- Many Words Just To Say Slurs… —
- A Comprehensive Survey of ExTwitter Users —
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- The Best Things I’ve Bought for Under $100 —
- The Onion’s YouTube Channel Made a Lot of Great Videos —
- I’ve Had Some Great Food Recently —
- Damn, Writing “Short” Posts is Harder Than I Thought —
- No!!! My MX Master’s Universal Receiver is Dying! —
- What An Interesting Way To Sell Planes… —
- Black Dynamite is the Best Parody Movie Ever Made —
- If You’re In My Office It’s Already Too Late —
- The USB C Apple Pencil Seems Like An Expensive Version of The Cheapo Drawing Styluses —
- Did You Know You Can Buy Cheap Mazoe Online With Free Shipping? —
- Thoughts on Second Hand Clothing —
- I Pasted A Video Into VS Code and It Worked? —
- Make Sure To Set Your Inputs and Buttons To At Least 16px or Safari will Zoom Into Them —
- Wait, Driving Manual Cars Is A Status Symbol? —
- I Was Denied Entry Into The Country Of Georgia For No Clear Reason —
- The US Covered Up Japan’s Worst Warcrime. Here’s How. [VIDEO 1:45:51] —
- So There’s A New JPEG Encoder Called jpegli —
- What The Heck is zstandard (zstd) Compression? —
- What Type of Image Metadata Should I Add To My Scanned Photos? —
- You Must Download That ViGEm Bus Driver Update —
- How To Transfer Image Exif Data With exiftool —
- Why Was Need For Speed: Most Wanted So Great? —
- Lying as a UX Strategy —
- Yes Farai, You Actually Spent All That Money —
- Hey Zimbos, Can You Stop Driving Like You’re Important Because You’re Not And It’s (Literally) Killing Us —
- Not Another Teen Movie Is A Stupid Funny Movie —
- Lake —
- The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge —
- My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll · Caffeinspiration —
- scrollable.html —
- The Country Behind the $100,000,000,000,000 Bill Hits a New Stage of Dysfunction —
- The Best Games from GMTK Game Jam 2023 - YouTube —
- On (Gendered) Pronouns —
- Adactio: Journal—The syndicate —
- Design Descisions Concerning My Personal Site —
showFile.htmlShortcode —figure.htmlandfigcaption.htmlShortcodes —- The Risks of Staying Put —
- Damn, Writing Needs a Lot of Effort —
- Why I Quit YouTube [VIDEO 1:25:21] —
- I Finally Visited Qatar in November 2022, But Not For The World Cup —
- Your Browser is Lying [VIDEO: 15:06] —
- Visiting Cape Town After Years of Not Travelling —
- YouTube Supports Downloads Nativley —
- Places I’ve Been To —
- Thanks Spain, I Guess —
- Thanks For Destroying Twitter, Elon —
- Computers Are Still Bound By The Laws of Physics —
- My Failed Attempt At Learning Japanese Just To Play A Video Game —
- Ideas For New Blog Posts (And Posts I Abandoned) —
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers —
- I’ve Gotta Say, Obomna Knows How To Find Good Content —
- Metaphorical browser tabs and spoon theory. - Ru —
- The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities [VIDEO 11:36] —
- I Am Truly a Baka —
- Synecdoche and Metonym Are My Favorite Words —
- Write HTML Right —
- Windows 11 In a Nutshell —
- I’m Going To Try And Make Two Documentaries —
- Writing when tech has broken the web’s social contract–Baldur Bjarnason —
- A Couple Tips For Using Text Fragments —
- Markdown images are an anti-pattern —
- Making a Useful 404 Page To My Site —
- iOS’s Clean Charging (And Things Like It) Are Greenwashing But The Idea Has A Lot of Potential Beyond Consumer Electronics —
- string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard - YouTube —
- Posting Blog Posts via The iSH App —
- Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams —
- This Site Now Has Archive Pages —
- What If I Just Stopped Caring About Keeping Up With Media? —
- Caleb Hammer Shouts At You Until You Get Your Financial Shit Straight —
- Here’s A Hit For All The Mothers —
- This Looks Like Shit But It Tastes Great —
- The Biggest Reason As To Why I Want USB C on iPhones —
- I Just Found an Amazing Laptop Deal —
- You’re Still Cherry Picking When You Showcase the “Nice” Part of Africa, You Know? —
- Scheduled Posts Work Now —
- I Learned About Vabbing So You Must Too —
- Was Making abbr.html Necessary? —
- Lamenting my 4TB External Hard Drive Since I’m All Outta Disk Space —
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- I Thought of Making a Mini Squoosh But It Didn’t Work Out —
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- Well Damn, I Never Thought This Tiny Colleve Town Had Such A Violent History —
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- A Strategy for Keeping My URLs Cool —
- Zero, One, Infinity —
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- Does Anyone Read Me? —
- I Really Need a CMS —
- AI Bonus: Very Stupid CSS —
- This Is The Stupidest CSS You Could Ever Write —
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- I Made This Site So I Can Give Less of a Shit —
- Tipping Is A Cultural Expectation, And Little More —
- A fact-checked debate about legal weed - YouTube —
- The coffeeshop fallacy | by @robfitz | Figuring out early stage startups —
- Wow, Mozambiq is Great! —
- Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake —
- Angela Davis Could Afford To Rent Two Apartments in California? —
- Housing Abundance Is Worth Pursuing —
- What’s Next For Web Monetization? —
- 9 April is Naked CSS Day —
- Very Funny Siri —
- The Internet At Work Sucks, But The Alternatives Aren’t Any Better —
- Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Both Fun and Confusing —
- Modern Font Stacks —
- Thank You CSS Tricks! —
- Damn I’ve Fallen Off… —
- Coil bids farewell, but not goodbye [ARCHIVE] —
- Makro, Your Fancy Web Page and Poor Markup Makes Google Think That Shitty Laptop Costs $21,000 —
- I Discovered the hreflang Attribute in the Weirdest Way Possible —
- I Use PowerToy’s Launchy So Much, I Almost Forgot It Wasn’t Built Into Windows —
- Edge, Can You Please Fuck Off and Let Me Browse The Web In Peace? —
- I’ve locked myself out of my digital life – Terence Eden’s Blog —
- Am I Gen Z As A ‘95 Baby? —
- ‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ —
- Why Am I Still Shocked That I Keep Getting These Emails? —
- Should You Take Weigth Loss Drugs? [VIDEO 27:21] —
- Code Blocks Generated With Hugo Are Looking Strange In Safari —
- Interesting Things I’ve Discovered About Excel Whilst Learning It Against My Will —
- I Don’t Think Names Work Like This —
- How to Get HEVC Video Extensions for Windows For Free —
- Damn, This is Some Hardcore Data Recovery —
- Ok Bing, I’ll Actually Start Using You —
- What Is This Flatass Pastry? —
- iCloud Photos is Garbage —
- reubs is Remaking The Simpsons: Hit & Run as an Open World Game —
- Fusion is Still 30 Years Away —
- I Miss Mel Magazine —
- Typos Man… —
- Why Am I Shocked That I Keep Getting These Emails? —
- About That $500 Flight… —
- tAkE a LoOk —
- How Bad Was The Travel Chaos I Was Scared Of? —
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- Make a 1K Zim dollar Note FFS —
- Trying Cool Salsa Drinks —
- So I Finally MAde That Amazing Chicken… —
- New Lives in the City: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul —
- Subscribe a lot, consume a little —
- The Most Disgusting Thing About Airplanes [VIDEO: 12:49] —
- Bill Gate’s Book on How To Prevent A Climate Disaster Was Better Than I Expected —
- The Secret Barrister Provides an Insightful Yet Humerous Critique of Britain’s Criminal Justice System —
- 2022 USA Trip Part 3—Didn’t Expect Such Great Urbanism In The US —
- 2022 USA Trip Part 2—Travel Chaos, Albeit Self Inflicted —
- Persona 5 Is a Masterpiece —
- Thank You Xbox Game Pass for Turning Me Into A Yakuza Fan —
- It’s Bloggin’ Time! —
- How I Chose The College I Went To —
- Why I Used diff-index Before the Commit —
- Yes, The TV Fridge Door Exists —
- Remembering Turning Red —
- What The Fuck Are These Shows Even? —
- Scriptic Crime Stories is What Happens if Netflix Shows Were Video Games —
- I Made A YouTube Video For Some Reason —
- AVIF You Brilliant Slowpoke —
- Edge Doesn’t Support AVIF Images —
- In Hugo v0.108, I Can Finally Handle Responsive Images This Way —
- Honoring Ali Ahmed Aslam, Inventor of Chicken Tikka Masala —
- I’ve Tamed My RSS Reader from 2200 Posts to 640 in 2 Days! —
- That Is Very Stupid and Yet Ingenious at The Same Time —
- Umm Google, That Video Is a Joke —
- Cyberpunk 2077 Was A Buggy Mess I Couldn’t Stop Playing —
- All The Time I Spent Playing The Yakuza Games —
- Why Isn’t ChatGPT Availible In My Country? —
- Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023 —
- Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet —
- Kwik Trip Appreciation —
- Rare “historic” footage and history by Adrian Gray Comedy —
- 2022 USA Trip Part 1—A False Start —
- Spud —
- My Current Content Backlog —
- There’s a Lot of Digital Competition —
- Time —
- Information camouflage —
breadcrumbs.html—- Paradise Killer is a Weird Yet Interesting Detective Game That Made Me Sick —
- This Is Going To Hurt —
- Awake Is a Helpful Utility For Keeping Your Windows Computer Awake —
- When Facebook Peaked (To Me) —
- Digital Gluttony —
- I got Kanye’s Stem Player [VIDEO: 10:55] —
- Please Have an Actual Website For Your Business Instead of Relying on Facebook —
- I don’t care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps – Baldur Bjarnason —
- I’m Bad at Information Architecture and I Don’t Know What To Do About It —
- Fine, I Guess I’ll Just Write Shit —
- The TRUTH Behind the Airport Travel CHAOS! —
- W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles —
- Is Nuclear Power Green? [VIDEO 22:46] —
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! —
- I Got A Bike! —
- Clarkson’s Farm —
- Google Search Is Dying —
- Squoosh —
- Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS —
- Nicholas Zakas Illustrates ‘Free as In Puppy’ —
- Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect —
- details.html —
- Initial Impressions of My New Laptop After Using It For A Month —
- My Other Tech Interviews —
- Random Notes About My Trip To Indonesia —
- Hey Reddit, I Don’t Want To Install Your Fucking App —
- Where I’ve Traveled In The 2010s —
- Let a website be a worry stone. —
- How I Optimize PNGs —
- I’m Not Ready To Blog And Program Again and I Doubt I Ever Will So I’ll Figure It Out As I Go —
- Rendering a Copyright Footer In Hugo —
- An ISO 8601 Date Snippet For VS Code —
- a11y is web accessibility —
- Why a11y Isn’t Ironically Inaccessible —
- 30+ Free Vintage and Retro Fonts —
- Trusted Travel by Africa CDC —
- lite-youtube-embed —
- I’m Done (For Now) —
- Web Development Publications Which Pay For Publications —
- I Should Have Saved My Old Stuff —
- Goodbye fgandiya, Hello faraixyz —
- I Actually Made Money In 2019—$1.81 To Be Exact —
- A Really Bad Way To Extract PDFs —
- My First Interview With Google —
- Using iOS Shortcuts and JavaScript To Extract RSS Feed URLs From YouTube —
- My Job Interview At Pivotal —
- Compressing Static Webpages With GitLab Pages —
- What I Did At My Job In The College Library —
- Things I Tried To Make My Fast Static Site Even Faster —
- QuickPush Revisited —
- Retweet Be Gone Revisited —
- My Bachelor’s of Arts in Computer Degree Revisited —
- Moving from Github Pages to Gitlab Pages —
- My Software Engineering Internship Interview At Goldman Sachs —
- Math.floor(it): Now You Can See if Speeding Is Worth It —
- Uncommon Hacks 2017 —
- My First Tech Interview —
- My First Chrome Extension: The Story of QuickPush —
- My First Hackathon —
- console.log(Hello World!) —