Alvar Lagerlöf

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A solar powered, e-ink bus stop sign with real-time bus times. This is a very good combination of neat technologies.
If you launch a social service in 2023 and can’t answer the question “is racism allowed?” simply and directly, you have no business running a social site. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3aoQKq/
TikTok - Make Your Day

They wait for thirty seconds, and finally they reach behind the refrigerator, where you can't see, and pull out a different mug, this one full of fresh coffee.

...What just happened? What was flicking the switch for? Was tapping the empty mug part of the procedure? Where did the coffee come from?

So... imagine that someone enters a kitchen, because they want to show you how to make a cup of coffee. As you watch carefully, they flick a switch on the wall. The switch looks like a light switch, but none of the lights in the kitchen turn on or off. Next, they open a cabinet and take down a mug, set it on the worktop, and then tap it twice with a teaspoon.
Trying Chromatic

The biggest feature Safari could ever introduce is decoupling it from the OS. All the new stuff is pretty much worthless for a couple of years now, all because of one browser.

The other browsers can be late and correct themselves, and in a short, everyone on the browser is going to have the new feature.

Stuff like 16.4 is not going to make safari any less bad for the ecosystem.

The "For you" tab being forced on me and the intolerable content in there finally made me have enough of Twitter.
Announcing TypeScript 5.0 - TypeScript

Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.0! This release brings many new features, while aiming to make TypeScript smaller, simpler, and faster. We’ve implemented the new decorators standard, added functionality to better support ESM projects in Node and bundlers,

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Everything is Broken Everywhere All at Once

A middle-aged software developer is swept up into an insane bug hunt in which they alone can prevent a product outage by debugging other software systems and...