My Omnivore.app Reading List
Recent Highlights
A note to young folks: download the things you love
highlighted: 8/30/2023
If you love something, try to get a local copy and store it on a hard drive you control.
"This. Especially if your tastes aren't particularly mainstream. I cherish early Tyler Childers live bootleg .mp3s like they are ultra rare holographic Charizard cards."
Lie still in bed – Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io
highlighted: 8/28/2023
Focus on the simplest possible unit of work – lying still – and apply it there.
Exploring the eerie beauty of Japan's abandoned villages - The Japan Times
highlighted: 8/28/2023
Nature is clearly in the midst of reclaiming ground ceded to previous efforts at human expansion here.
"There is hope!"
Bun v0.8.0 | Bun Blog
highlighted: 8/28/2023
ReadStream and WriteStream from `node:tty` are implemented, and `.setRawMode()` now works on `process.stdin`, unblocking several interactive CLI tools. Plus Node.js compatibility updates, bug fixes, stability improvements.
"This is a huge release with a bunch of helpful updates."
Recently Saved Articles
The Age of the Grift Shift
saved: 9/25/2023
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And there are of course a […]
Interoperability: Swift’s Super Power
saved: 9/25/2023
Open sourcing our learnings around Windows APIs, COM, C++ and their delightful integration into Swift - while building Arc.
Apple’s faster Haptic Touch is as close to a 3D Touch comeback as we’re gonna get - The Verge
saved: 9/25/2023
iOS 17 has a new Haptic Touch duration accessibility setting that makes long-presses much more responsive and efficient than before.
drillyourownwell.com
saved: 8/28/2023
You can drill your own shallow water well using PVC and household water hoses. It is a cheap and effective way to dig your own shallow water well. Water well drilling isn’t just for the pros with huge commercial drilling rigs. Digging a water well yourself is both interesting and fun.
A Web Component for Swapping Text between Text, HTML, and Markdown - Chris Coyier
saved: 9/25/2023
A couple of re-aligns ago on this website, my “biography” (a bit of text about myself) had some interactive controls on it. You could swap it between: The big idea was to make it self-serve when someone asked me for this, say to accompany and interview or for an introduction at a conference. You never […]
Introducing the Air Quality API: Promoting resilience to a changing climate | Google Cloud Blog
saved: 8/29/2023
Product Management Director, Google Maps Platform
How Google made the world go viral - The Verge
saved: 8/30/2023
From PageRank to Reader to Image Search, Google transformed online curation and internet virality. When did this cultural mainstay begin to lose relevance?
All-Time Favorites
The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted
favorited: 9/5/2023
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
The Age of the Grift Shift
favorited: 9/25/2023
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And there are of course a […]
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog
favorited: 8/28/2023
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.