The namecheap navigation bar is insane. Pick a lane lol.

Doing some analytics with #npm and this is the distribution of how many downloads NPM packages typically get.

Once every 6 months companies should have a 'improve your setup day'. I would use it fix all the little things annoying me in neovim but not enough to spend 30 minutes on to figure out how I can fix :S

The promise and dream of the internet we had in the 2000's is mostly dead, but if there's one counter-example it's #wikipedia. Can't think of a bigger internet success, Thank you for everything! https://wikipedia25.org/

Anyone have tips on what a reasonable way is to set up #postgres on a local dev machine and make it both convenient to connect with Node as well as interacting with it on the terminal? I end up updating pg_hba.conf and change everything to password login to make it work with node but now I […]

What @anildash said: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/wikipedia-at-25/ You know, I am occasionally shocked when someone I think of as smart or admirable or nice starts talking about how Wikipedia sucks. There are a few reasons why someone might feel that way, and none of them reflect well on […]

I have the pink one and I wish it didn't suck as much. Definitely would buy a modern ARM one!

For most sequences of bytes, compression does not work.

naming all kinds of stuff in AWS has to be the most annoying thing. How do people deal. Is the answer terraform or cloudformation?

I thought avatar 2 might be a brain-off watch but it may end up being a hate watch instead lol. It looks terrible and soo cringe. How did this do well?

It's beginning to look a lot like covid. Joy to everyone 🎵

I wonder why OSs need to go all the way to the BIOS/UEFI whenever they need a reboot for updates. Could they not free all memory and re-load their own kernel? Or is that simply too hard

I love that raspberry pis somewhow still have the IBM DOS VGA font starting up. How does that happen?

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

If you have a throwaway script and you need to host it at some public https:// endpoint with minimal effort, what do y'all grasp for these days?

In a year or two Next.js will have the same reputation WordPress had in the 2010s

Is variable shadowing ever desirable?

Picked up a $10 dell thin client, hoping it can be my Windows 3.11 or at most Windows 98 happy place. Hoping that removing the CMOS battery clears the bios password!

There are a lot of cursed computers things but this is the most cursed computers thing https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV

The top licenses published on #npm. Number #2 is interesting because it's not really a well-known one, but it's the default choice when running `npm init`, so it likely represents all the people that just pressed enter without having an opinion. If you had […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

'format' not being in the base json spec has to be the most annoying thing about json schema

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html #ietf

If anyone is looking for a Hot Wheels™ PC that is in what appears to be good cosmetic condition, I found this. Likely needs a lot of repair to the components. It's in Orange, CA. Posted 1st 9 days ago. $800. #retrocomputing #computers #technology […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Stack Overflow adds 'open ended questions' after 20 years of complaints and bad user experiences. Stack overflow has completely collapsed after chatgpt, but I think this was always inevitable once any friendlier incumbent popped up. I have a friends with 10+ years experience that weren't […]

I just realized my Keychron keyboard is not ideal for messing with a raspberry pi, because it has a battery and will draw more power from the Pi's USB port than it should!

The diplomat is a fun show but it's competence porn, and the illusion that the white house might be filled to the brim with competence is so shattered that the show just feels a bit self-serious and silly.

Sports made me sad for the first time

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I'm using my free time this weekend to try to move all hidden files in my ~ to XDG. Feels nice!

Lobste.rs (https://lobste.rs/) is bit like HN but good.

Omarchy is the Hannah Montana Linux of the 2020s

TERM https://wizardzines.com/comics/term/ (from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal)

When they came up with the filesystem standard for unix/linux, I always assumed they got to '/etc' and just kind of gave up with 'etcetera...''

Debugging a USB audio issue and: 😭

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

What happened with Insomnia? (the http testing tool). I can't find a way to make a simple HTTP request anymore 😢

Process list on a clean Debian install is so short! Feels nice to start with such a minimal system. Know every process and why it's running and add what I need. Only sshd was added at this point

Finally watched 'The Substance' after having to pause and continue the next day because it's so grotesque. Curious how people felt stepping out of the theater. Jeez

Hot take: `curl [url] | bash` is no worse than `npm i [package]`

When deleting project directories, #git has trained me to use -f, because .git will always have some write-protected files

strictNullChecks is too annoying in javascript-only (jsdoc) projects #typescript

Completed my first SOC 2 Type II !

I used to love Lego but aren't all the brand tie ins kinda annoying and opposite of timeless?

I mostly switched to pure CSS now. But dang i miss Sass' `@extends`

Figma should allow more things than colors to refer to CSS variables, and it should have a CSS export for all variables

Do you read any blogs of people you disagree with mostly, but are interesting?

I feel I would make such a good electrician because I would just label and document things

Holy crap this is a neat-ass resource: https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Oh look my famous Stack Overflow question got closed as opinion-based 18 years after asking. 😅 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body