SuperGeekery: A blog probably of interest only to nerds by John F Morton.

A blog prob­a­bly of inter­est only to nerds by John F Mor­ton.

Link List

Wel­come to my link library. These are not links to con­tent I have cre­at­ed unless you see that men­tioned in the link’s descrip­tion. These are links I found inter­est­ing enough to want to keep track of. If you read Craft Link List, the Craft CMS newslet­ter I used to write, this page is a replace­ment of sorts for that exer­cise. Enough talk. Let’s hit the links.

02Feb2023

Trigger.dev

✨ Trigger.dev is an open-source plat­form that allows devel­op­ers to cre­ate event-dri­ven back­ground tasks direct­ly in their code.

01Feb2023

Defined Networking

Neb­u­la Over­lay Net­works: Extend net­work access with on-demand, encrypt­ed tun­nels between any hosts on any net­work. Defined Net­work­ing is the com­pa­ny behind the Neb­u­la open-source project.

29Jan2023

Permission Slip by CR

An app from Con­sumer Reports that helps auto­mate opt­ing out of data-shar­ing from a wide vari­ety of com­pa­nies.

23Jan2023

The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down - The New York Times

Dig­i­tal the­o­rist Cal New­port is argu­ing for a new way to work. I like his idea of slow pro­duc­tiv­i­ty: What I’ve iden­ti­fied is three prin­ci­ples: doing few­er things, work­ing at a nat­ur­al pace, but obsess­ing over qual­i­ty. That trio of prop­er­ties bet­ter hits the sweet spot of how we’re actu­al­ly wired and pro­duces valu­able mean­ing­ful work, but it’s sus­tain­able.”

15Jan2023

Coolify: self-hosting made simple

Deploy Sta­t­ic, Node­JS, Svelte, React, Vue, Next, Nuxt, Astro, PHP, Rust, and more types of appli­ca­tions has­sle-free with auto­mat­ic reverse proxy and free SSL cer­tifi­cates.

13Jan2023

Fluid Typography Calculator

Cal­cu­lat­ing a flu­id font size can be tricky. This is the tool I use to make pre­cise flu­id typog­ra­phy with the clamp CSS func­tion.

12Jan2023

Dot All 2022 videos

Did you miss Dot All in 2022 in Brook­lyn? Now you can catch up on the ses­sions you missed. You can’t replace meet­ing the peo­ple, unfor­tu­nate­ly.

06Jan2023

HTML with Superpowers: Web Components

Intro­duc­tion to Web Com­po­nents. This is a paid course, but check out the get­ting start­ed” doc­u­men­ta­tion. It’s a good doc­u­ment all on its own and will teach you a lot about web com­po­nents.