My habit of keeping interesting things open in tabs on my mobile is WAY out of hand. So I’m challenging myself to blog them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 5.
I’m terrible at keeping up streaks like this. But I’m doing OK at this one so far!
1. The weirdly obscure art of Streamed HTML
https://dev.to/tigt/the-weirdly-obscure-art-of-streamed-html-4gc2
Streamed HTML is an interesting idea. A shame it’s not well supported server-side.
2. Neocities
Free retro websites. What’s not to like! I should make one.
3. Tricky Quiz
https://community.naimaudio.com/t/tricky-quiz/32397
We got given a print out of Richard Osman’s 60-cities quiz for Christmas. It was an excellent gift.
4. WP PHP Unit
https://github.com/wp-phpunit/docs
The WordPress PHPUnit unit test library included in the WordPress core develop repository, made installable via Composer.
Boring. Useful. Bookmarked.
5. Report: Unity Cutting About 1,800 People In Company’s Largest Layoff (in January 2024)
https://kotaku.com/unity-layoffs-1800-people-jobs-25-percent-january-2024-1851150254
I knew a person who worked at Unity. So probably opened this out of interest. Not really interesting any more.
6. Website Monitor – Neatnik
https://github.com/neatnik/website-monitor
A simple PHP-based website monitoring tool from the maker of omg.lol.
7. Web Dev Toolkit – Chris Ferdinandi
https://gomakethings.com/toolkit
Chris is a proponent of sensible use of JavaScript. This is his collection of boilerplates, helper functions, and libraries you can copy/paste to make building a simpler, more resilient web a bit easier.
8. Niklaus Wirth: ‘A Plea for Lean Software’ (via John Gruber / Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/11/wirth-plea-for-lean-software
Excellent quotes from an essay. Mentions communication problems, complexity and size of both projects and teams.
9. LÖVE
An awesome framework (their words, not mine!) you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It’s free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
There’s a parallel universe in which I don’t have kids or a job and I just tinker with retro gaming stuff all day. This is the kind of thing.
10. A Weird Thing That Happens – Chris Coyier
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/01/11/a-weird-thing-that-happens/
A little cartoon from Chris about how web development gets out of hand, you build a framework, and then…