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  • PHP: ctype_digit – Manual

    2023-08-01

  • Free Faces

    2023-08-01

    This website is a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs.

  • What’s The Real World Highway Range Of Today’s Electric Cars? We Test To Find Out

    2023-08-01

    We take the most popular electric cars, fully charge them, and then drive them at 70 mph to find out just how far they will go. Which one goes the furthest?

  • Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t – Erin Kissane’s small internet website

    2023-08-01

    After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of

  • The “Just In Time” Theory of User Behavior

    2023-08-01

    I’ve long believed that the design of your software has a profound impact on how users behave within your software. But there are two sides to this story: * Encouraging the “right” things by making those things intentionally easy to do. * Discouraging the “wrong” things by making those things intentionally difficult,

  • God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

    2023-08-01

    Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.

  • Why has Britain become so poor?

    2023-08-01

    archived 30 Jul 2023 14:57:18 UTC

  • My Journey Away from the JAMstack

    2023-08-01

    The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.

  • The Three Virtues – avdi.codes

    2023-07-31

    So somewhere along the line this blog lost it’s tagline, making the title somewhat obscure. No, I didn’t name the blog “Virtuous Code” because I believe I’m a paragon. It’s a reference to a quote by Larry Wall in the the famous “Camel Book”: “We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of

  • The Humanizing Work Guide to Splitting User Stories

    2023-07-31

    The definitive guide to splitting features & stories, including the latest versions of Richard Lawrence’s popular story splitting flowchart

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