Josh Farrant

@farrant
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I program my home computer; beam myself into the future.
Homehttps://farrant.me
Workhttps://github.com/joshfarrant
A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon

Our 4th most-read article of 2025. - - -GARY: Hey Cindy, remember the other day when we were talking about optimizations? CINDY: Yeah, I wanted to...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Thank you so much @mxbck for this post! It solved exactly my problem and was super clear 💖

https://mxb.dev/blog/persistent-build-folders-netlify/

I’m pulling my starred podcast episodes from Overcast when I build https://farrant.me and didn’t want to have to grab and parse a massive opml file every build. Now I only fetch the data and do the work if the cache is > 12hrs old 🚀

Making Persistent Build Folders in Netlify

I recently learned how to make persistent cache folders that stick around between builds on Netlify, and I'm using it to store webmention data.

Max Böck
@marcoarment If not, can I ask how long the cookie that's used for auth is valid for please? 🙂

@marcoarment Quick q — Is there an easy way for me to programmatically pull a list of my starred Overcast episodes?

I've spotted that I could pull the 'All Data' OPML file and find the episodes with a `userRecommendedDate`, but before doing that I wanted to see if there was an easier way; maybe an RSS feed for starred episodes similar to Feedbin's Starred Article Feed?

Asking because I'm pulling my Feedbin stars on https://farrant.me and I'd love to do the same with Overcast.

Home — Josh Farrant

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Josh Farrant
✎ There's an opportunity to create a Global Design System in order to improve the quality & accessibility of the world’s web experiences, save the world’s web designers & developers millions of hours, and make better use of our collective human potential. https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/a-global-design-system/
A Global Design System

TL;DR: This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world's web designers & developers a library of common UI components. A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world's web experiences, save the world's web designers and developer

Brad Frost

New blog post! Whether you use JavaScript frameworks or avoid them, #webcomponents are the one new platform feature we should all be excited about.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/the-web-component-success-story/

The Web Component Success Story | jakelazaroff.com

Web components won't take web development by storm, or show us the One True Way to build websites. What they will do is let us collectively build a rich ecosystem of dynamic components that work with any web stack.

I’m 42 years late, but I’ve just discovered Kraftwerk and the album Computer World and I’m absolutely loving it

@JustMeDevin You have really smashed it out of the park with Crouton. The UX is soooo good, the auto-importing is fantastic, and I love the family sharing features.

I’ve been using it for a few years but now we’ve started HelloFresh again I’ve picked it up anew. Importing the HF recipes takes seconds and the using tags + smart folders for rating/sorting dishes is just so nice.

Polishing an app to this level must have taken a lot of work but it’s so worth it 🔥

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.