Pirelli "for all bicycle tires" 1960 Artist: Riccardo Manzi

BTW, everyone should design interfaces in TextEdit, not Figma.

Horizontal buttons/links are superior to vertical: they use less space (if they fit on one line) because they don't need padding between them for clickability.

This is a game changer in the named color technology! 🌈 With CSS5 color-mix() function, you can get a closer match to any sRGB color you want using only named colors. Compare this beauty: DarkSalmon 50%, BlanchedAlmond to this modern horror: oklch(0.8052 0.0723 48.25)

I still don't get why web devs use custom JS-based tooltips. Stick title="Tooltip text" into any element and it will show the native tooltip, after a proper timeout.

Let's see what happens when your writing goal is reached in I Write Like. #WritingCommunity #WriteLife #Writing

I Write Like is the place to write with no distractions. Or to distract yourself in a creative way, by comparing your writing to famous authors, or by cutting adverbs out, quite literally.

The Web is the platform you are looking for. Pass it on.

We've been using Ed25519 in browsers for over 10 years now (every identity and writer is an Ed25519 pair in Peergos), so we really appreciate this and how much work it has been. The size of nacl.js is 30KB so not a significant benefit, but the web-crypto version is 10x faster!

WebCrypto API doesn't have ML-KEM yet, but I already want to use it because scary ⚛️ quantum computers are coming and will break everrrrrything ☠️! So I made a small one-file WASM-based implementation with an API from the future that I can switch later to crypto.subtle. github.com/dchest/mlkem...

Fun fact: Shift+Cmd+D is a shortcut to send email in Apple Mail. It's also a shortcut to discard email in Gmail 🤦‍♂️ Don't ask how I know.

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high. jsdate.wtf

Fifteen years ago, I launched I Write Like — a playful website that tells you which famous author your writing resembles. What started as a weekend experiment quickly went viral, with millions of people pasting in everything from essays to fan fiction to grocery lists.

Wrote a post on how to store web app data in the system keychain. (Kinda) dchest.com/2025/06/17/h...

I was craving for an open source Bloomberg Terminal font lookalike, but there was none, so here's my amateur attempt at creating one from Source Sans 3 (on the right). Repo: github.com/dchest/bergoom

I made a *very* dark mode for I Write Like. 😁 Ooze mode, inspired by Stephen King's On Writing, helps you REALLY spot those adverbs!

Tabs save money!

You don't need types if your program fits on one screen.

I've released the IWL app for iPhone and iPad! apps.apple.com/app/iwl-smar...

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/04/18/p...

An LLM Framework For Cryptography Over Chat Channels (Danilo Gligoroski, Mayank Raikwar, Sonu Kumar Jha) ia.cr/2025/661

I shipped, again! The new I Write Like app for Mac is available from App Store apps.apple.com/app/iwl-smar...

Calcish 1.4 released! 🚀 Support for OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash models. 🏎️ Updated the local model support code to enhance performance. 🎉 The basic version now allows the creation of an unlimited number of codebooks. calcish.com

"WebKit for Safari 18.4 adds support for X25519 for Web Cryptography" 🙌 webkit.org/blog/16574/w...

Microsoft's Go fork for FIPS cryptography now includes macOS system libraries support. (Good for Go App Store apps that use cryptography) devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-24-f...

Lol, whoever came up with this at Microsoft, you're an evil genius! www.windowslatest.com/2025/01/06/m...

TIL window.launchQueue in Chrome doesn't work for some file paths. If you have a web app, assigned to open, say, .txt files, and the file is in the "forbidden" path, the web app will launch, but receive an empty array of file handles. Not mentioned in docs developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Great to see NIST take up a wide block cipher mode! At AWS we have to carefully engineer around the 128-bit safety limits. Otherwise hyper-scale systems like VPC, S3, and EBS would exceed those limits in seconds! 256-bits is much more misuse-proof. csrc.nist.gov/News/2024/ni...

"[Large] programs written in C also spend time garbage collecting; it's just that the programmer also spent time writing the garbage collector (and it's probably not written very well)." — Yaron Minsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J8Y...

🔗 Good intentions, Poor Context www.tpgi.com/good-intenti... "Empathizing with the community and wanting to be an advocate are the foundations of #a11y. But charging ahead without having a genuine understanding of how people interact with digital content can sometimes do more harm than good."

Clever www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/i...

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144

Mozilla made only Latin fonts for their "reclaim the internet" rebranding, which "pulls together our expanding offerings, driving growth and helping us connect with new audiences in meaningful ways", so their website looks bad in Cyrillic and Greek.

Supply chain attack via a shell injection in a PR branch name (!) due to unsafe use of GitHub Actions' pull_request_target. Inserted a crypto miner in the PyPI package. Paging @yossarian.net to the courtesy phone. Would github.com/woodruffw/zi... have caught it?

Found an interesting switch variant. Good or bad? I'm not a fan.

Autumn vibes: waterfalls near my town

Hey #F1 We are making a starter pack of verified F1-related accounts to help avoid impersonations or mirrors. We're adding accounts to this pack which are linked from a verifiable website or a previously verified account (on X, Reddit, etc) go.bsky.app/57f6geP

Are we still afraid of AI, or was it just a phase?

I can't believe The Guardian style guide allows punctuation in entity names. They can't even write NASA properly ("Nasa"), yet they’re apparently fine with question marks. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I was hopeful when 404 Media started, but most of their articles turned out to be sensationalized nothings. They’re like kids who stumble upon an old, empty shed and start shouting about every creak and shadow as if they've uncovered a haunted house—lots of noise and drama, but little substance.

I think we should stop animating modal dialogs. Animation there serves no purpose at all — the user can already figure out what happened by its nature of being modal and covering things — and it only slows down interactions.

The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google asteriskmag.com/issues/08/th...

A new social network means a new place for me to spam old blog posts Still love this one many years later notes.jordanscales.com/is-this-true

QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4207...

"I’m stuck licking my finger every time I need to make a YubiKey work" news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4203...

Oh no, Apple acquired Pixelmator www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11...

I don't understand how it is that traders have this highly specialized, super-fast, data-heavy UI they can control with a keyboard, but a corporate programmer's workplace UI is a board that simulates sticky notes that you have to drag with a mouse.

This design is brilliant: it's so absurd it's beyond the norms, instantly recognizable, and something people want to talk about. Not everything should be slick or trendy. No need to change it.

Hello world!