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2025 (11)
January 2025 (11)
- Henry’s Got An Incredibly Beautiful Website
- Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals | Ars Technica
- Do You Know Why Those 100 Companies are Responsible for 70% of emissions?
- My iPhone’s Setup
- 2024—The Year Nothing Got Better Except For The Few Things That Did
- Maven is a Really Cool Former Wrestler With Lots To Share
- A Roundup of A Bunch of Old Links I Had Lying Around Since 2020
- Japa Isn’t All That, Who Coulda Guessed?
- A Falsehood Programmers Believe About Currency: All Payment Methods in the Same Currency Is Worth The Same Amount
- Angela Collier is Great at Discussing Physics
- the sham legacy of Richard Feynman [VIDEO 2:48:11]
2024 (114)
December 2024 (10)
- Visiting The War Remnants Museum in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Why Did I Spend 90 Minutes Telling you About French Quotation Marks in CSS?
- A Hasty Review of Morocco’s Trains
- I Listened to That Much Litle Mix? And Other Revalations From My 2024 Apple Replay
- Why Is It Called Cyclone Chido?
- Why Oh Why Would You Feature Such A Complex Dropdown That Isn’t Even Sorted, Morroco Foreign Ministry?
- O’Mari’s Merchant Payments Is Rather Convenient
- That’s An Insane Image to Use For a Former Vice President
- iOS Standby is Pretty Cool
- Colophon
November 2024 (19)
- 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
- How To Make A WiFi QR Code
- hi, it’s been a minute
October 2024 (8)
- 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
- So InfoSec Really Does Boil Down to Mossad/Not Mossad…
July 2024 (1)
June 2024 (9)
- 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.htmlrender-link.html- Use Accrual Accounting For Better Personal Finances
- Why I Hate Nonsense Brands
May 2024 (16)
- 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
April 2024 (20)
- The web is not dying
- How WoolWorths grew their online retail business by 162% in 8 years
- Quick Resume is The Best Next-Gen Gaming Feature
- 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
- Happy 404 Day!
- On disabled and aria-disabled attributes
- s12y Means Web Sustainability
- Apple, You Know That Tino’s…
March 2024 (18)
- 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?
- 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)
- My Bank Made A Mistake And Sent Me A Check for $0.07!
- 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
February 2024 (12)
- 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
_redirects- 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
January 2024 (1)
2023 (242)
December 2023 (11)
- 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
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
November 2023 (12)
- Many Words Just To Say Slurs…
- A Comprehensive Survey of ExTwitter Users
- While People Have A Lot of Ways of Saying the N-Work
- The Onion’s YouTube Channel Made a Lot of Great Videos
- Ok, How Do I Get These Bloody Dates To Work Properly In Hugo?
- 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…
October 2023 (9)
- 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?
changelog.htmlnote.html- 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
September 2023 (14)
- 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?
- To The RSS Club: I Will Clobber You With Posts, Possibly After A Long Time Without Any
- 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
- My Shitty Old Projects
- Hey Zimbos, Can You Stop Driving Like You’re Important Because You’re Not And It’s (Literally) Killing Us
August 2023 (12)
- Not Another Teen Movie Is A Stupid Funny Movie
- Lake
- Updates For The Week Ending 20 August 2023
- The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
- Is This Thing On?
- I’m Back, Yet Again
ass-ref.html- My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll · Caffeinspiration
- scrollable.html
- Errors and Configuration
- 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
July 2023 (23)
- On (Gendered) Pronouns
- Adactio: Journal—The syndicate
test-case.htmlShortcode- Design Descisions Concerning My Personal Site
feedbackLink.htmlShortcodeshowFile.htmlShortcodefigure.htmlandfigcaption.htmlShortcodes- The Risks of Staying Put
- Damn, Writing Needs a Lot of Effort
- I’d Be Suprised If This Actually Works
- Why I Quit YouTube [VIDEO 1:25:21]
- Damn This Site Has A Lot of Posts
- 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
- Stuff I Want
- YouTube Supports Downloads Nativley
- Places I’ve Been To
- Thanks Spain, I Guess
- My Piece of Shit Website Is Back
- Thanks For Destroying Twitter, Elon
- Computers Are Still Bound By The Laws of Physics
- If You Insist On Scraping My Site, At Least Do It Properly
June 2023 (12)
- My Failed Attempt At Learning Japanese Just To Play A Video Game
- 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
- Attempting to Make Some Policies
- 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
- My Open Source Contributions
- I’m Going To Try And Make Two Documentaries
May 2023 (32)
- 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
- About
- 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?
- Don’t Forget To Specify a 404 Page For Your Cloudflare Pages Site!
- Caleb Hammer Shouts At You Until You Get Your Financial Shit Straight
- Here’s A Hit For All The Mothers
- A New Site Yet Again
- This Looks Like Shit But It Tastes Great
- Damn, Time Zone Rendering Issue Got Hands
- 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
- This Site is Live Once Again
- I Thought of Making a Mini Squoosh But It Didn’t Work Out
- Darn
parseInt()
April 2023 (47)
- Well Damn, I Never Thought This Tiny Colleve Town Had Such A Violent History
- I’ve Consolidated 6.9% of This Site’s Posts. Nice!
- A Strategy for Keeping My URLs Cool
- Zero, One, Infinity
- Harry Potter and the Forbidden Game
- Does Anyone Read Me?
- I Really Need a CMS
- AI Bonus: Very Stupid CSS
- This Is The Stupidest CSS You Could Ever Write
- 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
March 2023 (20)
- 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
- Linkstats
- 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 Look Strange In Safari
- Interesting Things I’ve Discovered About Excel Whilst Learning It Against My Will
- I Don’t Think Names Work Like This
February 2023 (29)
- 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
- Umm Google, That Video Is a Joke
- 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?
- My Code Has A Lot of Cels…
- 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
- Rare “historic” footage and history by Adrian Gray Comedy
- agckb.xyz
- 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
January 2023 (21)
- 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
- 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
- Arguing Why Drastic Emissions Cuts Is Better Than Waiting for Tech, In One Sketchy Graph
- Cyberpunk 2077 Was A Buggy Mess I Couldn’t Stop Playing
- All The Time I Spent Playing The Yakuza Games
- Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023
- Rendering a Copyright Footer In Hugo
2022 (126)
December 2022 (1)
November 2022 (9)
- Chrome Depracates JPEG XL
- Plaid Gave Me $36
- Why a11y Isn’t Ironically Inaccessible
- Use Noembed to Get Metadata For YouTube Videos, Tweets and Other Websites
- Disabling Copy-Paste Now, Really?
- Can’t Say I Wasn’t Told
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!
- Kwik Trip Appreciation
- Is CSS a Programming Language?
October 2022 (17)
- All The Other Interesting Links of October 2022
- Jessica Wade Makes Wikipedia bios For Unknown Women Scientists
- This Little $4,500 Electric Car is the Hottest Thing in China Right Now [VIDEO 4:29]
- YouTube SHOULD charge for 4K. Hear me out. [VIDEO 20:09]
- 2022 USA Trip Part 1—A False Start
- The City of Harare Texted Me About Cycling
- People Did Complain About The Queen Piece When It Was Added to Chess
- Spud
- All Major Posts I’ve Been Moved In!
- My Current Content Backlog
- The Most Extreme Points I’ve Visited
- Big Tech employees are TikToking on the job — and their bosses don’t always like it
- getCSSSelector
- There’s a Lot of Digital Competition
- (Re-)Introducing The Just Section
- Time
- You’re Supposed To Sleep Between the Fitted and Flat Sheets
September 2022 (7)
- How To Not Get A Job After College
- The Messy Debate Over Student Loan Forgiveness [AUDIO: 39:52]
- Trying This Personal Website Thing Once Again
- Information camouflage
breadcrumbs.html- Paradise Killer is a Weird Yet Interesting Detective Game That Made Me Sick
- Trying This Personal Website Thing Once Again
July 2022 (32)
- Ukraine Flag (109 Bytes)
- Watch Your Comparisons Lest You Compare Vaccines to the Nazi Regime
- How To Convert Animated WebP Images to Videos
- Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story
- This Is Going To Hurt
- Does software piracy exist?: Matthew Butterick
- Awake Is a Helpful Utility For Keeping Your Windows Computer Awake
- Please Stop Killing Nuclear
- When Facebook Peaked (To Me)
- Digital Gluttony
- I got Kanye’s Stem Player [VIDEO: 10:55]
- If You Do The Same Thing Over and Over Again and it Involves a Computer, Consider Automation
- Please Have an Actual Website For Your Business Instead of Relying on Facebook
- If You Own The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV in Harare, Let’s Talk
- I Hope The Nothing Phone Does Well
- 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
- Web Pages Must Live Forever
- How Some News Sites Write Articles [VIDEO 2:25]
- Jordan Peterson’s Transphobic Rant Is Now Pure Video Game Gold
- Set JAWS free!
- Fine, I Guess I’ll Just Write Shit
- Nobody Puts Gentleminions in a Corner
- How to prevent buttons from causing a form to submit with HTML
- Six social media commenting principles, how they don’t work and an alternative broadcast system
- Newsletters
- A New Definition of HTTP
- The TRUTH Behind the Airport Travel CHAOS!
- You can automate more than you think
- W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
- Scunthorpe Sans 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font
June 2022 (3)
May 2022 (6)
- Using Apple’s Tools to Fix My iPhone [VIDEO 31:24]
- Everyone Loses Except The Reactors - How The Scam Works (Feat. Asmongold & xQc) [1:11:30]
- The Problem with Apu
- The big misconception about clean energy [VIDEO 8:51]
- The Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis [VIDEO 42:44]
- The Danger of Ignoring Julian Assange [VIDEO 32:07]
March 2022 (22)
- Apple Powered Generator
- SAINTCON Keynote - LockPickingLawyer
- My Shitty Sites
- My Shitty Codepens
- Vaccines and Freedom [VIDEO: 42:33]
- Heydon Pickering on How to Think About Progressive Enhancement
- Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes
- My List of Ls
- I Got A Bike!
- What makes writing more readable?
- Why Hugo’s documentation sucks - Sagar Behere
- Interop 2022 Dashboard
- Downfall: Case Against Boeing
- Clarkson’s Farm
- A new year, a new MDN - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
- Google Search Is Dying
- Testing Pipeline 101 For Frontend Testing
- Achieve consistency using a font superfamily | Al Power
- Understanding CSRF Attacks
- The Ukraine Crisis - and Its Impact on the Tech Industry
- Inspecting Web Views in macOS
- IE Down, Edge Up… Global Browser Usage Stats Are for Cocktail Parties and Conference Slides
February 2022 (14)
- Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
- Ask an expert: Why is CSS…the way it is?
- Things that used to be hard and are now easy
- A New Site Yet Again
- Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once: Git Best Practices
- I’ve Added A Theme Switcher (The Basis For One Anyway)
- How Two Characters Cost 300kb (or Why I Need To Subset Fonts Properly)
- Farai’s Codelab is Now a Digital Garden!
- Finding The Color Contrast of Colors Specified With the New CSS Color Functions
- Y’all Know There’s Like A Dozen Ways To Center Things In CSS Right?
- Improving Netlify’s Default HTTP Cache-Control Headers for Immutable Assets
- LCH Color Picker
- Squoosh
- This is a test page
January 2022 (15)
- King Richard
- Going To Stop Saving Links for The Mean Time
- A New Site Yet Again with Fonts and 404
- Yes, We Should Ban Cars As Well
- Don’t Look Up
- Ready Player One
- I’m a Short Afternoon Walk and You’re Putting Way Too Much Pressure on Me
- How my website works
- Are We Really Engineers? • Hillel Wayne
- David East - Sampling bias, FDR, and The State of JS
- Div divisiveness | scottohara.me
- What I plan to write and make in 2022
- Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022
- Top 10 Web-Design Mistakes of 2021 [VIDEO 21:00]
- Responsible — Pixel Envy
2021 (88)
December 2021 (5)
- Adventures in Collective Funding [VIDEO 17:03]
- Working With Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS
- “Imagine if Doctors Relied on Google As Much As Programmers Do”
- Sure Google Maps, That’s Vegetarian
- We Get It Bill, You’re Rich and Investing In Shit
November 2021 (36)
- Oh Stack Exchange…
- Did You Know That I Have YouTube Channels?
- Ten Posts out in an Hours
- On Cimate Doomerism
- ο
- Taking NFTs to their logical conclusion
- The Real Problem with NFTs (Not Energy Use, Money Laundry, Right Clicking, Lack of Real Value, Transaction Fees, Theft or MLMs)
- In This House, We Affirm Climate Change
- Weed Is Fine
- The Damn YouTube Algorithm
- Forget your carbon footprint. Let’s talk about your climate shadow.
- Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050
- I Wanna Move On
- Is this a house or a lake?
- Four Fucking Hours
- Caught Up With Captioning. What Now?
- ‘Buy the Constitution’ Aftermath: Everyone Very Mad, Confused, Losing Lots of Money, Fighting, Crying, Etc.
- Marx Failed To Predict Self-Imposed Crunch
- The Fucking Fourth Wave Is Imminent So Get The Fucking COVID Vaccine
- Technical documentation writing quick tips / Marijke Luttekes
- Making world-class docs takes effort | daniel.haxx.se
- Tech Recruiting, You Have a Problem | by Brenton Poke | Nov, 2021 | Medium
- A Label is Not A Placeholder
- Flirting with Microblogging
- ‘Live Chat’
- Inventing a Guy To Be Mad At
- Zimbabwean Drivers Man
- New COVID Vaccine Card
- Inertia
- The HTML
- Dan Hollick on the issues with WCAG’s color contrast ratio
- How Users Read on the Web
- One of The Worst Things About Zimbabwean Payment Systems
- Why I Still Use AdBlock
- Why I Use AdBlock
- Don’t be afraid of the Big Long Page by Amy Hupe, content designer.
October 2021 (3)
- Why is The Uber App So Large?? (From an ex-Uber mobile engineer & manager) [VIDEO 13:42]
- Why is The Uber App So Large?? (From an ex-Uber mobile engineer & manager) [VIDEO 13:42]
- Blaming Screen Readers 🚩×5
September 2021 (4)
- Nicholas Zakas Illustrates ‘Free as In Puppy’
- Confessions of a Video Vixen
- Archives to My Old Content
- An Economist Walks Into A Brothel and Other Unexpected Places To Understand Risk
July 2021 (4)
- Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect
- toc.html
- details.html
- Give Your Illustrations Dark Mode With This Simple Trick
June 2021 (4)
- You Can Give A Website Dark Mode With Just One CSS Property
- I Got Vaccinated Against COVID-19 In Zimbabwe. Here’s How It Went
- Initial Impressions of My New Laptop After Using It For A Month
- The Defining Decade
May 2021 (17)
- My Other Tech Interviews
- Random Notes About My Trip To Indonesia
- list-style:none Removes Semantics From Lists
- “Person, Shoes, Tree. Is the Person Naked?” What People with Vision Impairments Want in Image Descriptions
- Thoughts About The Future of Work From A Chronically Unemploymed Person
- Hey Reddit, I Don’t Want To Install Your Fucking App
- Where I’ve Traveled In The 2010s
- Farai’s Codelab and My Personal Website are Now One
- The RSS Feeds I Follow
- Don’t Use Sci-Hub
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- What The Redesign
- Introducing a New YouTube Channel—The Conspicuous Consumer
- Reject Screenshots—Embrace Archives; When You Wanna Screenshot a Page, Archive It As Well
- The Main Character
- Corncobbing
- 100 Days of Blogging
April 2021 (5)
- Stop Using GIFs. Use Videos and Other Image Formats Instead
- Converting Video into Animated Images (and Other Videos) With FFmpeg (For The Most Part)
- I Now Have A Newsletter; See The First Email
- Let a website be a worry stone.
- After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again
March 2021 (9)
- How I Optimize PNGs
- Let me learn: Provide tutorials in more formats
- Adding Permissive CORS to Netlify
- Bias In AI
- An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues
- #19: Blogging vs. blog setups
- Sticky Footer Using Flexbox With Just 4 CSS Declarations
- Don’t Be Afraid To Sell Your Stuff
- I’m Not Ready To Blog And Program Again and I Doubt I Ever Will So I’ll Figure It Out As I Go
February 2021 (1)
2020 (174)
December 2020 (2)
November 2020 (26)
- Dustin Brett
- How do people find bugs?
- An Accessible Word Document Checklist
- The documentation system (A.K.A. What Nobody Tells You About Documentation)
- Image compression deep-dive
- BBC Subtitle Guidelines
- Don’t Rely on YouTube Transcripts
- Know your Standards
- A11y is not accessible
- a11y is web accessibility
- AccessiBe Controversies (or Why AccessiBe and Accessibility Overlays Suck)
- Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
- Truths about digital accessibility
- There’s a fix for 100vh on mobile WebKit (iOS/iPadOS Safari)
- modalzmodalzmodalz.com
- Unexpected accessibility tips
- More accessible defaults, please!
- A horrifying
globalThispolyfill in universal JavaScript - 30+ Free Vintage and Retro Fonts
- Mentoring by Michelle Baker
- Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
- Technical debt as a lack of understanding
- Whose computer is it?
- Online introductory lectures on quantum computing from 6 November
- Fixing Section 2.5.2
- Where You Can Find The Various Default Web Browser Style Sheets
October 2020 (129)
- October 2020 Bookmarks
- Smooth as Butter: Achieving 60 FPS Animations with CSS3
- 10 Optimizations on Linear Search
- How to Build HTML Forms Right: User Experience
- When Fonts Fall
- At this point, I’d like to take a moment to speak to you about the adobe PSD format.
- 臆病な魔女 (yui540 graphics)
- Generate Web Developer Portfolio
- Nils Binder’s Website
- mamboleoo
- 39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla
- Sorting Algorithms Visualized
- Layoutit Grid
- Nafta Free Font
- Defying the mainstream: building technology that respects our rights
- This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
- Creating font subsets
- DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source
- How screen readers navigate data tables
- Tactical Challenges In Hiring Junior Engineers
- Web Technologies and Syntax
- Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
- Equal Entry Website Mistakenly Called Out as Inaccessible
- Trusted Travel by Africa CDC
- Is the World Getting Safer?
- Going Sohla: After leaving Bon Appétit, the chef now has her own show — where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.
- 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going)
- The 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
- Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity.
- Kony’s rebels remain a threat, but they’re also selling honey to get by
- Gig-Economy Influencers Are Helping Uber and Lyft Exploit Their Drivers
- A quintessential blogging mistake.
- New names for streets, buildings in Zimbabwe
- So the capital will be in Mt Hampden after all
- Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems and Transformations
- My List of 45 Things a Gay Character Needs In Order for Me to Think They’re Necessary
- Hi, Are You Doomscrolling?
- In Praise of AutoHotKey
- PS5 Teardown: An up-close and personal look at the console hardware [VIDEO: 07:11]
- Cockroaches Thank Homeowner for New Luxury High-Rise
- Local Liberal Blissfully Unaware Their Mutual Funds Comprised Entirely of Oil, Tobacco, and Gun Companies
- Who’s Afraid of the Experts? | Philosophy Tube ft. Adam Conover
- Amara.org
- More Studies Shed Light on the Value of Zinc in Covid-19
- Codrops
- The Contrast Swap Technique: Improved Image Performance with CSS Filters
- SQL Murder Mystery
- Challenging projects every programmer should try
- ‘God intended it as a disposable planet’: meet the US pastor preaching climate change denial
- Frontend Design, React, and a Bridge over the Great Divide
- Kim Jong Un sheds tears in rare apology for his leadership failure
- Guide features 10 steps to a healthy eating plan by Brazil’s Ministry of Health [VIDEO: 4:26]
- Apple’s New iPhone 12 Ceramic Shield Explained
- The Architect of Modern Algorithms
- An Essential Tool for Capturing Your Career Accomplishments
- Git commit fixup and autosquash
- lite-youtube-embed
- RealFaviconGenerator.net
- SVGO’s Missing GUI
- Form design
- Designer as Writer
- Canned Web Development
- (Why) Some HTML is “optional”
- Graceful Degradation versus Progressive Enhancement
- The 6 Most Common Accessibility Problems (and How to Fix Them)
- The History of The Web
- n-gate.com
- Your Calendrical Fallacy Is
- Magic Numbers in CSS
- ReadMe Project
- Using CSS Grid the right way
- Demystifying Browsers
- David Bushell
- Laura Kalbag
- Manuel Matuzović
- Robert Heaton’s Office Hours
- Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
- The Best Open Graph Image Size (Stolen From Top Websites of 2018)
- Briefz
- Sass Guidelines
- The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch
- How I Record Educational Videos
- Moment JS is in Maintainance Mode
- When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number
- The Whimsical Web
- Using max() for an inner-element max-width
- hosers are tweeting about github contribution graphs again by Wes Bos
- The .gay gTLD is Now Live
- Let’s Say You Were Going To Write a Blog Post About Dark Mode
- A Complete Guide To Dark Mode
- Teach Yourself Computer Science
- The Web Toolbox
- Velvetyne Fonts
- Etcetera Type Company
- Recursive Font
- Jeremy Wagner
- Sam Smith
- Wenli Zhang
- jQuery Credit Card
- Footnotes That Work in RSS Readers
- Infusing Computing
- No Design Development
I no longer make software
- Indexing My Blog’s Outbound Links
- What We Can Learn From Software History by Hille Wayne
- gif de-animation using
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- The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later
- The Just in Case Mindset in CSS
- Dependency
- Four tips for getting to an interview
- The Developer Cover Letter
- Laws of UX
- Creating font subsets
- Remote Hiring at Tech Companies Is Racist
- Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?
- The Horrifically Dystopian World of Software Engineering Interviews
- Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
- AMA With Mozilla’s CEO Mitchell Baker
- Cloud Native Landscape
- Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
- Giggle; Laughable Security
- Page Weight Matters
- Bunch o’ Bookmarks I’ve Found in Most of 2020
- AVIF Has Landed
- Some Uses of The Adjacent Sibling Selector (
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- I’m Done (For Now)
- An Easy Way To Get Youtubers To Add Captions To Their Videos
- Web Development Publications Which Pay For Publications
- The Algorithmic Cookbook Has Been Re-Redesigned (And May Go Away Soon)
- Introducing Hour Makes
- Tic Tac Fail: How I Tried (and Failed) to make Tic Tac Toe in an Hour
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- How To Add Search To Your Static Site Through a Search Engine
- Making Word Clock, A Clock Which Tells The Time With Words
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- Making My Senior Project Virtual Jo: The Handy MCSP Helper
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- I Should Have Saved My Old Stuff
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- Goodbye fgandiya, Hello faraixyz
- I Actually Made Money In 2019—$1.81 To Be Exact
- Expressing Gratitude
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- fgandiya.me v8— The 8th Version of My Personal Website In All It’s Glory
- SUPPUASTPDS Episode 1: Bad HTML Could Cost You Millions?
- fgandiya.me Now With Half-Assed Dark Mode! (And A YouTube Channel)
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- My Experience As A Web Development Volunteer
- A Really Bad Way To Extract PDFs
- The Time I Tried To Do An Acessibility Audit
- Fine, I’ll Look Into Grad School
- What To Learn In My Next Years of Programming?
- The One Thing #TeamCrispy Should Work On
- The 8.5”×11” Notecard
- The Time I Ran A Business In High School
- Looking Back On Five Years of Programming
- Tormented Soul by Matias Xavier— The Song Played Whenever A Zimbabwean National Hero Dies A.K.A The ‘yeh yehi yei yei’ Song
- My First Interview With Google
July 2019 (2)
- Improving My Website’s Skip Link
- Using iOS Shortcuts and JavaScript To Extract RSS Feed URLs From YouTube
June 2019 (3)
- My Job Interview At Pivotal
- Adding Search to My Hugo Static Site Using lunr.js
- Going Through Changes In 2019
March 2019 (4)
- Compressing Static Webpages With GitLab Pages
- How I Got Around Netlify Not Supporting Hugo Extended Using GitLab CI
- Adding JSON Feed to My Hugo Static Site
- I Miss Jats: A Short Tribute to Brian Mujati, an Underrated YouTuber
February 2019 (6)
- Enabling HTTPS on GitLab Pages Using Let’s Encrypt in Bash For Windows
- Setting Up an Email Based Feedback System.
- My Git Revisited: Summarizing All The Personal Projects I Did In College
- Virtual Jo Revisited
- What I Did At My Job In The College Library
- My Personal Websites Revisited
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- Hello 2019!
- Things I Tried To Make My Fast Static Site Even Faster
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- Semester of Java Revisited
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- What I Read in 2017
- Dialogflow and A Bit of Node.js
- Things I Learned After Giving My First Tech Talk
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- Uncommon Hacks 2017
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- 410’s: The Posts That Are Literally Gone.
- Bookmark Beviary 2: Design
- Building TakeNote, a Notes App for Developers With GitHub Sync
- Cool Tweets
- Egg
- Half Assing My Static Site’s Search
- I’m Now Convinced That Writing is Thinking
- Into the Personal-Website-Verse
- My New Portfolio
- No, You Cannot Add A Custom New File to Windows 11’s Context Menu
- Now
- Shitty Old Posts
- The Power and Paradox of Bad Software
- Wait, Don’t Women on Dating Apps Go For Few Men Because Dating Apps Have More Men
- Web Conversations With the Year 2000
- Wes Bos
- Who Knew That Trade Offs Matter When Evaluating Media Codecs and Compression Algorithms
- Why Doesn’t Zimbabwe Give Georgism a Go?
- Why Every Interface Should Be Black And White