Author: Ross Wintle

This in-progress eBook about how computers work, with beautiful illustrations, is something to keep an eye on:

https://www.makingsoftware.com/

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This JavaScript operator reference from @joshwcomeau is really helpful:

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/operator-lookup/

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A pong clock.

It's very clever.

I don't really have anything to add about it.

https://bigjobby.com/pong/

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This on gratitude through hand-written notes is excellent from @ericmann.

https://eric.mann.blog/gratitude/

I'm getting back into writing letters. I'm not on Facebook (I hop on to check some organisation pages every now and then) or Instagram. So I miss out on a lot of people's news. But letters are so much better anyway.

Must do more.

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More family IT support. Today we discover that on older iPhones, when Safari hits 500 open tabs it REALLY FREAKS OUT!!! (White screen, browser crashes).

Took a while to do that one.

How does anyone without a friendly tech nerd to hand get by? It's wild how bad tech is sometimes.

These look like great books/guides (printables available) for young makers wanting to level up.

https://www.makershed.com/collections/make-books-print/products/make-skill-seeker-young-maker-edition-print

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(Apologies for not knowing who to hat-tip for this stuff. If it was you, thanks!!)

“the autistic mind is not trapped inside consensus trance”

This is a very interesting read why autistic people may be more "collapse aware”.

But there's plenty of interesting stuff in here that's not just related to collapse-awareness.

https://adrianlambert.substack.com/p/why-some-people-see-collapse-earlier

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I read about “Dogpile” the other day, which is a merging game with roguelike, deckbuilder mechanics and cartoon dogs.

It's really fun, and very well done.

https://dogpilegame.com/

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More good AI takes – this time on software development – from @davidcelis

https://davidcel.is/articles/writing-code-is-fun

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This is an excellent (IMO) analysis of the Gen AI / LLM situation from @rpm:

https://robinmonks.com/ai-is-everywhere-expensive-and-worthless/

Also I'm going to try to use “Gen AI" as a term more as there are other kinds of AI that are actually more useful (as Robin highlights when he talks about Apple's approach).

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I am engaging in the holiday ritual of turning open tabs into bookmarks. Expect links as I share the useful stuff!

You could mute #holidayBookmarking if this gets boring.

@quicheindustries Hello! Happy holidays.

I don't expect an immediate response, but I'm a tab hoarder trying to review and archive many tabs.

I would LOVE a feature to export the URLs of all my open tabs to a CSV, Markdown, or just a URL list. Even copy to clipboard would be fine.

I'm half expecting you to tell me this already exists. But if it doesn’t, can I request it as a feature?

THANK YOU for your awesome browser. 💙

Very happy thing: some friends bought us a family card game called “Bumfuzzle” and I haven’t laughed so much in ages!! Recommended!

Frustrating thing: Boxing Day “fix the printer” for a family member. Such horrible, crappy devices!!!

Calculating how many powerful computing devices with screens I’ll be taking on a short Christmas holiday sometime soon.

I think it’s 6 for me!!
3 for the kids to share (normally 2 but… 🧑‍🎄 🤫)
2 more for the teen
At least 2 for my wife
1 for the car? Does that count?

16!!!!

This all seems so dumb.

I’m an open-minded dev. There are rarely hard and fast rules that apply everywhere. I’m happy for you to have an opinion. BUT…

The use of types in code is SO deeply ingrained in me that I find it hard to think about code without them.

Well-defined interfaces are the bedrock of a stable, understandable, maintainable system. They highlight any shortcomings fast too.

You can like dynamically-typed code. But I will never understand why you like it.

Been thinking about this a lot lately.

@mattseymour Hello mate! How are you??

I’ve also been watching Pluribus (after watching some other Apple TV shows like Invasion and Foundation) and I think Apple TV shows should mostly be movies.

We get you have big budgets, stars you can call on for cameos and directors with big cinematic ideas. But really… they’re all far too slow!!

Our 2025 Family Playlist has Maren Morris’s “Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot soundtrack. A really beautiful song.

But I had it on headphones the other day and I can’t help thinking the chorus needs proper
drums and some crash cymbals to drive it a bit more.

Needs a rocked up version!