Ragland Asir

@RaglandAsir
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Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`

https://nerdy.dev/css-text-grow

(prototype in Canary 165+)

Stand firm, win your match, and keep the faith!

https://www.whitenoise.email/p/standing-firm

Standing Firm

Maintaining Composure amidst Chaos

White Noise
I would be a much happier person if I didn't care what random strangers think of me.
How Modal built a data cloud from the ground up | Amplify Partners

Behind the scenes of how Modal built and scaled a data cloud from scratch, from a custom container runtime to their own filesystems.

@grumpygamer
Bug reports: the known, and the unknown:

known known: yeah, we fixed this bug already.
known unknown: we've seen similar reports before, but haven't found the root cause.
unknown known: it's not a bug, it's a feature.
unknown unknown: what do you mean by "it doesn't work"?

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I ported the core parts of Go's time package to C.

The resulting library offers a rich set of functions, from working with Unix time to time comparison and arithmetic to truncation and rounding.

With nanosecond precision.

https://github.com/nalgeon/vaqt

GitHub - nalgeon/vaqt: High-precision date/time in C

High-precision date/time in C. Contribute to nalgeon/vaqt development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Why Unkey left serverless
- SaaS overload
- hard to cache since can't use simple memory since new instance each time

https://www.unkey.com/blog/serverless-exit

The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo

If all the world were a monorepo

The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance

Julie’s Substack

Those of us mourning Pocket: found our direct replacement. Does more, too, even acts as a feed reader.

£10/mo which I think is about the same as Pocket.

Raindrop still slaps for bookmark management, but this is our Pocket replacement.

https://readwise.io/read

Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers.

Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.

Readwise Reader