How to write blog posts that developers read refactoringenglish.com/chapters/wri... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

Rad dithering breakdown / interactive learning experience visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

I wrote a Vite plugin that brings client-side MCP tools to allow your coding agent to see your app in action. Uses your existing Vite development server, so you don't have to run a separate MCP server. ates.dev/posts/2025-1... #vite #mcp

new blog post: From passwords to passkeys ssg.dev/from-passwor...

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use: blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

This is huge! If you've ever tried vibe-coding a web app, you'll know how the coding agent struggles (or simply bullshits you) without actually seeing the page or the console logs. Sure, you could use other MCP servers before. But now this is built-in!

I'm going to be doing a short presentation and then do my best as a floater/mentor in the upcoming AI Tinkerers & Google Cloud: Agents Hackathon Toronto share.google/3qYFqqatgZJJ...

Falling Block Jam is starting! The (optional) inspirational vibe is "Analog Memory." Let's go!! #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...

💎 Ruby MCP SDK v0.3.0 is here! ✨ New: Tool output schema validation, HTTP client, server instructions 🔧 Improved: Better tool handling, error responses, protocol version validation 🐛 Fixed: JSON-RPC notifications, tools with missing args github.com/modelcontext... #Ruby #MCP #SDK #OpenSource

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Lean for JavaScript Developers

Everybody who claims they they "use HTTP" but don't do it like this is a phoney github.com/pfrazee/http...

BAD: Hard-coding tons of JS inside a string literal: const src = ` doThis(); doThat(); ... `; GOOD: Use an IIFE: function doIt() { doThis(); doThat(); ... } const src = `(${doIt.toString()})()`; This way, you get: Proper indentation, syntax highlighting, linting, types, etc.

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I have written some words on the hardest problem in computer science: naming things. kriskowal.com/naming-things/

Still super proud of this video I made 2 years ago. Views have kinda flat-lined so I'm posting it again because dammit I want people to see it! (The video title is probably not helping its popularity but I don't know what else to call it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=otO3...

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I tried a crazy idea and it worked: On a Vite+React app, I asked Claude Code to write an MCP server as a Vite plugin and use the HMR socket to run tools on the client, including a screen shot tool that lets Claude see the results while vibing visual tweaks. I wrote zero lines of code.

Boğaziçi’nde rahmetli Galip Tekin’in verdiği Art of Animation dersini almıştım. Konuk olarak Cem Yılmaz, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, Selçuk Erdem gelirdi. Selçuk Erdem’in ziyaretlerinden birinde kâğıdımın kenarına çiziktirdiği uzaylıları buldum. Köpekbalığı ise Galip abinin. Stilinin hayranıydım. :(

Falling Block Jam is now open for sign-ups! In September, let's put our own spin on this classic genre combining blocks and gravity in games. #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...

Yesterday I noticed the elevator music feature while waiting for a @buildkite.bsky.social build to finish. Then I was forced to do this. #guitar #bossanova Tabs: gist.github.com/atesgoral/a2...

New (short) blog post: sneaky git commits tavianator.com/2025/sneaky....

One of the few paintings I've done in my entire life. Based on a doodle I drew on the corner of a piece of paper while talking on the phone. Acrylic on canvas. Circa 20 years ago. #caturday #art #humanart

This is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen youtu.be/q9maEvJP8Nk?...

Nakia, after I fondled her belly, yearning for me to bring my face closer so she can lick my beard. She's obsessed with me. #caturday

Neko and Nakia contributing to the fluffy chonk demographic of #caturday

Their 15 July post, “From Memo to Movement,” shares the “non-obvious insights, tactics, and workflows Shopify used to bring an ambitious memo to life.” www.firstround.com/ai/shopify

v0.2.0 of the mcp gem is released: github.com/modelcontext... And @koic.bsky.social joins as a maintainer! 🎉 (We're still banging the API into shape until we can call v1.0.0.)

#CSS Logic Gates with if() Function

Nakia caught mid-yawn #caturday

Wow! I posted my interactive pilot logbook webpage to Hacker News on a whim, and it has somehow reached the top spot. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439... jameshard.ing/pilot#statis... Turns out there are lots of software people who are also into aviation!

Dear world, looks like I’m here as well. 👋🏼 I’m David, building tools I use for generative art and design systems. I love exploring the intersection of code, creativity, and manual labor. My most successful project so far has been Poline: 👉 meodai.github.io/poline/

___ my interest: * piqued: my interest got aroused * peaked: my interest cannot go any higher * peeked: you glanced at how interested I might get * piked: whatever interest I had is now impaled on a stake, rotting in a field, picked at by crows

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The moment we open-sourced the gem, some incredible talent from the OSS community jumped in!

Gooseman (creator of Counter-Strike) back with a new tactical shooter!

✨ In my upcoming animations course, we build an intuition for Bézier curves with a mini-game: your job is to get your green ball to have the same easing as the pink ball, by dragging and adjusting the curve:

After shopping for a long Toslink cable to get around ground loop noise, I'm sad to report that humans are selling and buying GODDAM GOLD-PLATED OPTICAL CABLES. I didn't know light exited faster and with more quality when it's surrounded by gold.

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- Ne tür müzik yapıyorsunuz? - Hiç bir kaygısız. open.spotify.com/track/6QN0mX...

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MCP has already become the narrow waist for Agent x Tool: github.com/oils-for-uni... (If you're still skeptical about it.)

[PSA] While adopting Model Context Protocol (MCP): Both JSON-RPC and SSE look like simple protocols, but they have intricacies that are usually overlooked. (Especially with SSE, under TCP packet fragmentation.) Please use battle-tested libraries instead of writing your own naive parser/handlers.

This is the way. Touch every big unknown as the first thing. Write ugly code that does this.

Kids in school: OMG enough of these fractions. We have calculators for this. Adults doing weekend DIY:

Just dropped a new hyper-specific Ruby gem! A fully spec-compliant JSON-RPC 2.0 handler: github.com/Shopify/json... 100% branch coverage attained by interspersing the raw text of the spec with tests! Check the tests to see what I mean :)

Welp. Knowing this earlier would have helped me a lot. Also TIL: jo.

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And unfortunately: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_... 좆; jot: Noun or adjective. Means "penis".