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NoSurf – Stop wasting life on the net! I just discovered the “NoSurf” community. This is cool since it’s an idea I’ve been trying to follow for sometime now. They also have a nice reading list on the subreddit.

Craft and Satisfaction

Boxie - an always offline audio player for my 3 year old This is pretty impressive post from a Dad who built his own version of a Toniebox. My son also has a Toniebox, and it is a cool little device but some things about it I find very annoying and I’ve frequently had the thought “I should be able to make a better one…”. Right now though I’m just trying to learn a bit of electronics just to be able to fix his toys when they stop working which feels like all the time.

Kermit font This is pretty impressive “typeface for kids” and a fascinating read about what went into designing it. via

Collapsible markdown TIL from williln/til Click me Favorite Disney Movies Wall-E Moana

Just Put It On Your Blog If you’ve got something to say, something to share, something that others might be interested in—why not just put it on your blog? Also posted on IndieNews

LLMs can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything A fun new attack vector in the age of AI. “What a world we live in: AI hallucinated packages are validated and rubber-stamped by another AI that is too eager to be helpful.”

My weirdest A/B test blew everyone’s mind Clickbaity title aside, it’s an interesting technique. They essentially put a blurred screenshot of the product/app behind the sign up form and it resulted in a significant jump in conversions. I can definitely see why it would work but it also feels a bit manipulative/deceptive. What do yall think?

UI Algorithms: A Tiny Undo Stack A pretty clever little implementation of an undo/redo data structure in JavaScript.

Verifying tricky git rebases with git range-diff Git’s range-diff command is pretty powerful but I feel like it’s not talked about enough and it could definitely use a nicer UI so I’m Andrew is helping to demystify it.