Facebook's Static Hermes is kind of incredible. It can compile JavaScript into C, which is then optimized into native machine code. I just compiled the Less.js source code into a C library. Then I called it from Rust as a native Parcel plugin (no Node). Wild. 👨‍🔬 devongovett.me/blog/static-...

@wesbos.com was it you who wrote about scanning and converting to text grandparent journals? Hoping to do the same and looking into tools / success stories

Released two zsh-abbr features I'm excited about last week: You can customize the abbreviation delimiters (makes it possible to expand abbreviation inside parens and quotation marks), and you can expand "regular" abbreviations in any command position (opt-in). #zsh #CommandLine #terminal #DevTools

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket so it can free up time and resources for cramming more "AI-powered" trash into Firefox www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

@jsr.io nows shows download counts! Their (non-)handling of the community request for this feature is one of the reasons I'm uninterested in JSR, but it's nice to see. And exciting to learn tailwind-fluid-font-size (tailwindcss-fluid-font-size.olets.dev) has been downloaded from JSR ~6000 times

Let's all go back: homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...

Always interesting to see what public figures look like when not in makeup

You can't ride zebras. Why? Because they're mean, stripey fucks. You can't ride tigers. Why? Again, mean stripey fucks. You can't ride bees. Why? You guessed it, mean stripey fucks.

New article: "Picture-in-picture GoPro videos with GPS video overlay" A write-up of how I use ffmpeg and GPX Animator to create videos with two picture-in-picture overlays. olets.dev/posts/pictur... #GoPro #FFMpeg #GPS #OutriggerCanoe

Reading Dune, and watching the new movies, it felt like a swirl of unrelated storylines and coincidences that I didn't care about. So I read a bunch of synopses, puzzled it out, and wrote a summary for myself… maybe it'll be helpful to someone else hachyderm.io/@olets/11409...

New plugin: 11ty/image-color to get colors from an image. Create theme-specific CSS from an image (or even a URL using our IndieWeb avatar service).

New article: "The command line (mostly Git) abbreviations I rely on" I use abbreviations (CLI text expansion) to improve my command line experience. Most of these would work well as aliases too. olets.dev/posts/the-co... #zsh #FishShell #git #CLI #CommandLine #DX

<Developer> (shrugs) Works on my machine <DevOps> Then we'll just ship your machine <Me> And that, class, is how Docker was born

"impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance [and] employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system … for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles…" apnews.com/article/doge...

"The Hawaiʻi Green Infrastructure Authority has been locked out of $62 million awarded through the EPA's Solar For All program, which is designed to help low-income households finance rooftop solar. www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...

New zsh tool: zsh-job-queue manages cross-terminal synchronous job queues. I use it to orchestrate repeated destructive file changes across sessions. Check it out if you write zsh software. zsh-job-queue.olets.dev #zsh #CommandLine #terminal

Woohoo, Anchor Positioning will be part of Interop 2025 github.com/web-platform...

First looks: <is-land> v5.0.0 Beta 2 Broadened browser support Passive event listeners Rename attribute prefixes New Import Maps examples Supports: Petite Vue, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Lit, Preact, and Alpine.js

Command Execution Timer is a zsh plugin for timing, working with, and displaying the time interactive shell (aka command line) commands takes to execute. command-execution-timer.olets.dev #zsh #shell #CommandLine #terminal #DX #DevTools

Released a new major version of my zsh theme, Hometown Prompt. v4.0.0 adds scheduled refresh (the prompt content can update every x seconds) and transient prompt (the prompt trims down to just the essentials after you hit Enter) hometown-prompt.olets.dev #zsh #shell #CommandLine #prompt #ZshTheme

Got a scam text "from" the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. > Your vehicle has an unpaid toll invoice, and to avoid excessive late fees on your bill Watch out for `ezdrivema.com-something.tld` URLs! www.mass.gov/news/massdot...

I wrote this simple SDK to manage @craftcms.com Commerce in headless mode, covering everything from customer registration to complete payment and more. github.com/DidoMarchet/... If you have a little time to check it out and let me know if you find it useful or not, I’d really appreciate!🙏🚀

Happy groundhog day!

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

Released a new zsh plugin: zsh-transient-prompt It makes it easy to add a transient prompt to your zsh theme. That is, to have one prompt for the current line and a different prompt for past lines in your terminal window. zsh-transient-prompt.olets.dev #zsh #CommandLine #terminal #prompt

"Will Wang created a page that uses all 100+ HTML elements. Yes, it looks like the personal site of every Web Components truther, but this one is special." - Bytes Newsletter iamwillwang.com/dollar/every...

Craft 5.6 is here! • Cross-site field copying • Revamped Color fields • Entry type relabeling • Standalone Live Preview • Frontend login & 2FA templates • Universal arrow functions • Site-specific email settings • Redirects • Read-only settings • So much more #CraftCMS craftcms.com/blog/craft-5...

New article: "From Stimulus to web components". To see how well my long experience with Stimulus translates to web components (well!), I tried recreating some of Stimulus's core features as a web component. olets.dev/posts/from-s... #JS #SSG #WebComponents #stimulus #hotwire

It's not an "app" unless it comes from the Appalachia region of the United States. Otherwise it's just a sparkling computer program.

New today! Important resource to keep up with lawsuits challenging the trump administration, and with lawsuits and investigations THEY bring. clearinghouse.net/post/1175/. Thank you @mjschlanger.bsky.social, director of the org that maintains this invaluable resource. #CivilRights #Law #Resist

Tailwind CSS v4 is out github.com/tailwindlabs... #TailwindCSS #CSS #release

New article: Adding front end interactivity to sites not written in JS Introduces a minimal pattern, then refactors into web components. Applicable to many non-JS sites, but written especially with the @11ty.dev and @craftcms.com communities in mind. #JS #SSG #eleventy #CraftCMS #WebComponents

We're entering a dark period in US #accessibility. The White House home page has a bunch of links with "aria-hidden" and "tabindex=-1". This hides the links from assistive tech like screen readers & makes them unreachable with just a keyboard. Critical #WCAG compliance errors! But who can sue?

It's not too late to take part in The Hackathon Shorter Than The "World's Shortest" Hackathon! An hour and fifty minutes some time today Jan 16, continuous or split up. The only restriction is no AI shorter-hackathon.vercel.app #ShorterHackathon #hackathon

New article: Per-page dynamic social metas in VitePress VitePress's `head` config can add site-wide static `<meta>`s. But I want social previews to show page-specific content. That’s more involved. Here’s my solution. olets.dev/posts/per-pa... #VitePress #OpenGraph #FrontEnd

"Critics argue that this proximity alone demands greater consultation and scrutiny, not less. Although no public meetings are planned in Hawai‘i, the general public can attend a virtual meeting Monday or submit comments to the FAA by Jan. 17." www.civilbeat.org/2025/01/publ...

On January 16 I'll participate in The Hackathon Shorter Than The “World’s Shortest” Hackathon, the hour-fifty-minute AI-free remote hackathon anyone can join. shorter-hackathon.vercel.app #ShorterHackathon #hackathon

Another year, another website from another Henry. shorter-hackathon.vercel.app started minimal but evolved to @nuxt.com, to Astro + Vue, to vanilla Astro + web component theme switcher + link rewriting middleware + @unocss.dev. Left with plans for Astro extensions and unocss-preset-css improvements

This is your Save The Date for the grassroots no-AI everyone-wins alternative Jan 16 "Hackathon Shorter Than The World's 'Shortest' Hackathon". More soon. I'm excited 💓 Re bsky.app/profile/verc... #ShorterHackathon #hackathon #dev

Wrote about how I configure Tailwind, evolved out of using it on many projects with fully custom UIs olets.dev/posts/how-i-... #TailwindCSS #CSS #FrontEnd

New mini article with the function I use to transform Tailwind's width media queries from px-based to rem-based. olets.dev/posts/conver... #TailwindCSS #CSS #a11y

Another week another backlog project release! git-commit-message-summary-length measures the length of a commit message's first line, and compares that to soft and hard limits. git-commit-message-summary-length.olets.dev #git #CLI #OpenSource #ShellScript

Oh no this is an SPA and I can't swipe on my trackpad to go back to Home after clicking on a post? Guess I won't be clicking on posts often 😶

Released git-activity 1.0.0, my cross-repo Git log with a CLI for filtering by date, repo, commit message, and more. The initial motivation was to help me verify time sheets. Also helps finding how you solved a problem in another project, progress report prep, etc. github.com/olets/git-ac... #git

My Tailwind plugin for fluid font size can now be installed from NPM. Installing from JSR will still work, but is recommended against — JSR support may be dropped in a future major version. tailwindcss-fluid-font-size.olets.dev #TailwindCSS #CSS

Published a new article: a guide to migrating VuePress sites to VitePress olets.dev/posts/migrat... #VuePress #VitePress #Vue #FrontEnd #TechDocs #SSG

v6 of zsh-abbr, the zsh manager for auto-expanding abbreviations, is out 🎉 Highlights: 🆕 History: save abbreviations to shell history 🆕 Prefixes: now you can `sudo <my regular abbreviation>` 🆕 Reminders: "you could have used…" notices zsh-abbr.olets.dev #zsh #shell #terminal #CLI #CommandLine