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Friends at Last: Tailwind & CSS…whodathunkit?!

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In praise of the ellipsis The ellipsis is an irreplaceable method for showing disdain, avoiding the subject, offering a knowing delay, bringing a sense of speech to the page, or just being plain snarky. It allows you to pause and then move on without the need to tell anyone why… via

The link router pattern | James’ Coffee Blog James shares some cool examples of what he calls “link router” sites, including his own Subscribe Openly. I agree with James that it is frustrating that the onus is on the person sharing the link. I like to use pods.link and songs.link because that’s the experience I would prefer to have but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten one of those links from someone. It does feel like it wouldn’t be too much work to build a type service like what he describes… will definitely have to have a think on it… ...

How I Use Kagi I’ve also been a fan of Kagi so far… this makes me want to do my own writeup…

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau This is another great tutorial from Josh on the basics of SVG markup! If you want to go further, this is an awesome interactive site for understanding SVG paths: Understanding SVG paths

An Undefeated Pull Request Template | Ashlee M Boyer This is probably the best and most thorough advice I’ve seen on how to write good pull request descriptions. So many great bits of advice and things I wanted to +1. The first goal of a pull request description is to make code review as straightforward and frictionless as possible. Even if everyone knows the code, you’re saving them time by doing the thinking for them. The code is still fresh in your mind whereas they might need to take a few minutes to recall how the feature works. ...

RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee A nice little history of RSS in comic form.

Tips for making regular expressions easier to use in JavaScript Some great tips in this article that I hadn’t seen before. I probably wouldn’t pull in a dependency for it unless I was doing some pretty regex heavy work but good to be aware of.

new Date(“wtf”) I scored 5/28 on https://jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.