🗓️ I'm opening up my calendar to anyone who wants to talk about ngrok! cal.com/samwho/ngrok I'm equally happy talking about what the product can do, taking feedback about it (good and bad!), and pairing with you to see if ngrok could be a good fit for your idea.

Easily one of the most delightful people to work with. Andy is the talented designer behind the dogs on my blog posts, and if you have a design role open he is well worth talking to about it!

Please, please, please do this. One of my biggest JS pet peeves is when people catch errors then throw a new error without including the cause. You’re shooting yourself in the foot.

I'm writing about self-hosting and got wondering why ports <1024 are privileged on Linux, and require you to be root to bind to them. Found this explanation and couldn't help but laugh. I'd always thought it was a bit of a hack. utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b...

Who are your favourite people building cool stuff on the web, but who have a criminally low number of followers?

Cool to see what goes on behind the scenes in the World of Warcraft race to world first. Analysts, data gathering, internal tooling to review 20 live streams simultaneously. Really great to hear them call out mental, too. 2 weeks, 15 hours a day, intense pressure. Unreal. youtu.be/HcRUvpQzWCI?...

Who are your favourite people building cool stuff on the web, but who have a criminally low number of followers?

Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨ Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰 Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs

First mind-blown moment from @joshwcomeau.com’s Whimsical Animations course, probably not one he was going for but… YOU CAN GIVE CSS VAR() REFERENCES A DEFAULT VALUE?! WHAT?! e.g. var(--padding, 1rem) to use the value of --padding if it has been set, or 1rem otherwise. How did I not know this?

Created the skeleton project for my next blog post on samwho.dev last night. Got a topic I really want to write about but need to do quite a lot of reading first.

📢 New research! Autism isn’t *just* about challenges We have strengths too but these are rarely recognised, which can lead to: - low self-esteem - shame - stigma - having less direction in life Lampinen et al explore autistic strengths in a new paper 😊 Do you relate to any of these? 👇

Funniest one I’ve seen in a while. xkcd.com/3148/

cant stop playing with this

This you?

I'm having too much fun in this job.

If you make a CLI tool and you have an "install" subcommand it should be the law that you must name the reverse operation "uninstall." Not "remove," not "delete." Looking at you, apt.

Working at a company that used Discord as its method of internal comms made me forgot how much I need this feature in my life.

This reminds me of the time I learned that some of my friends were using Monzo to chat with each other by sending 1p between each other and using the reference field for the message.

Good lord, this is delightful. And it’s by Charles Petzold, the guy who wrote the Turing biography I read while writing samwho.dev/turing-machi.... codehiddenlanguage.com/Chapter14/

I’m imagining a thought experiment where we get a billion people to roll 100 dice each and then split into groups based on the result. The tiny number of all 6s extolling the virtues of the dice, the all 1s screaming back at them. Folks in the middle thinking “well that was what I expected.”

Go take the State of JavaScript 2025 survey if you have a minute! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

The strength of 1 horse measuring exactly 1 meter cubed.

I’ve been rumbled.

and, just in case you want to play a completely different coin flipping game from those two -- here's one i made earlier downpour.games/~v/flip

If you saw my website go offline for a few minutes there, uhh… no you didn’t 👀 Not me failing a DNS update, no sir.

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It seems like the core idea behind AT proto is that users own their database, and apps are granted access to it. Is that right? If that’s right, holy shit that’s cool.

JustGiving accepts crypto now, and has an AI assistant to help you write donation messages. What are we doing.

The urge to migrate to my own PDS and move my website off of GitHub Pages is absolutely enormous right now.

95% sure I just fell for a scam. Was applying for an ESTA and typed “esta application” into Kagi and clicked the top result. All felt legit, entered my passport, trip, and card details and paid £86. Then I realised what I’d done, looked up the domain, others complaining it was a scam.

One month to go for Diwali, the festival of lights! 🪔🎆 Please check out DIWALI IN MY NEW HOME by Shachi Kaushik, art by me, for a lovely Diwali gift!!! ✨ www.beamingbooks.com/store/produc... #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks ✏️💛

I recently fell in love with tweakpane and I was using it for working on shaders and things were good. Recently I’ve been divin into React and I wanted to use it tweakpane but I can’t get it to work. Both react-tweakpane and use-tweaks don’t work. If you have managed this please tell me how 🙏

Girl, same.

AirPods Pro 3 review: - They fit my ears _much_ better. Way more secure now. Don’t fall out when I smile. - Sound quality not obviously better or worse, just different (more pronounced low-end, sometimes tickles my inner ear) - Noise cancelling not obviously better or worse.

It’s a mix of ciechanow.ski and spite. When I wrote Load Balancing I was in a funk because I wanted to write about the cool stuff I was building at work but the company didn’t want to publish the details. So I kinda sorta decided to try and make the best thing I’d ever made to spite them.

I used Tailwind and Vite for the first time ever today.

Something I don’t talk about often is that I have a massive fear of the ocean. This is nightmare fuel but I can’t look away.

This is an extremely fun idea. idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/

Wanting to cure autism is like wanting to cure freckles, or cure belly buttons, or cure disliking cilantro. It is not the fault of autistic people that society has arranged itself in a way that doesn’t account for their needs.

Yesterday @astrolabe.ooo materialized a little further out into the darkness with eight amazing new pieces of prose, poetry, and art. It's our eleventh time around, which is pretty amazing to reflect on... and it'll be three years come this winter!

My biggest fear is that I am the subject of this post. anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

You can now embed any captcha from I'm Not a Robot onto your site! use it on your fintech site, b2b saas, edu platform, possibilities are endless docs: neal.fun/not-a-robot/...

Our eldest has started losing his baby teeth. He hates it. He shouts “help, help, wobble” and wants us to get it out but whenever you put a finger in his mouth he clamps down because he hates that too. Feels a bit like pulling baby alligator teeth. 🐊

This post by @samwho.dev explaining Big-O notation in human terms with concise code samples and simple illustrative demos is a joy to read. samwho.dev/big-o/

The green group in today’s Connections is bullshit. If you don’t know the exact reference, you won’t get it. 😒

So far I've received 11 submissions for this year's #HTMHellAdventCalendar. They look fantastic, but, you know, I need at least 24. You can write about anything you want related to HTML. There's no “too basic”; we need more fundamental HTML knowledge out there because we suck at the basics. 1/2

I see the appeal of @starting-style but that specificity gotcha Josh points out looks really nasty 😔

People love teaching me about the jiffy.

I am! I’m a few weeks into my role at @ngrok.com and am fiddling with a few ambitious ideas. The 3D globe I shared last week is part of one of them. That said, I’m not working on anything for samwho.dev. I’m back on a 5 day week so the time is harder to create for personal stuff.

Why is it that the new Spelling Bee NYT game is the last one to get released each day? Other than Wordle this one seems the easiest to automate. Find a 7+ letter word with exactly 7 unique letters, generate scoring from how many words can be made with those letters, generate hint grid.