Link List

A bit of his­to­ry on the opti­mal line length for text whether for cod­ing or read­ing.

Fore­sightJS is a light­weight JavaScript library that pre­dicts user intent based on mouse move­ments and key­board nav­i­ga­tion, enabling opti­mal prefetch­ing tim­ing and improved per­for­mance.

Preser­va­tion­ists at the Video Game His­to­ry Foun­da­tion pur­chased the rights to Com­put­er Enter­tain­er, the first video game mag­a­zine ever writ­ten and uploaded it for free.

Claude Code has con­sid­er­ably changed my rela­tion­ship to writ­ing and main­tain­ing code at scale. I still write code at the same lev­el of qual­i­ty, but I feel like I have a new free­dom of expres­sion which is hard to ful­ly artic­u­late. Claude Code has decou­pled myself from writ­ing every line of code, I still con­sid­er myself ful­ly respon­si­ble for every­thing I ship to Puzzmo, but the abil­i­ty to instant­ly cre­ate a whole scene instead of going line by line, word by word is incred­i­bly pow­er­ful.

Native CSS tran­si­tions have qui­et­ly killed the strongest argu­ment for client-side rout­ing. Yet peo­ple keep build­ing ter­ri­ble apps instead of per­for­mant web­sites.

Dive deep into QR codes.

Sim­ple cross-brows­er cook­ie-con­sent plu­g­in writ­ten in vanil­la js

Build­ing a small val­i­da­tion rule to cov­er WCAG Col­or con­trast rules, with some help from Claude Code

mbake is a Make­file for­mat­ter and lin­ter. It only took 50 years! — EbodShojaei/​bake

It seems iron­ic that I’m even typ­ing this, but the very thing I’ve delib­er­ate­ly moved away from over the years — putting my face to my brand — has now become absolute­ly essen­tial. If Cre­ative Boom, or any inde­pen­dent pub­li­ca­tion, is going to sur­vive the next 12 months, we need to act fast. And I’m not being dra­mat­ic. AI is fun­da­men­tal­ly chang­ing how peo­ple access infor­ma­tion…

A web com­po­nent to add line num­bers next to var­i­ous HTML ele­ments — zach­leat/­line-num­bers

Check mul­ti­ple time­zones around the world with a few clicks. Per­fect for remote teams and glob­al col­lab­o­ra­tions.

Test­ing ver­ti­cal met­rics typog­ra­phy across browsers.

Gen­er­ate strong and secure pass­words by col­lect­ing let­ters, num­bers, and sym­bols in a bas­ket

We’re opti­mists build­ing brand and dig­i­tal for the most impact­ful com­pa­nies of today and the founders defin­ing tomor­row.

A con­trast algo­rithm func­tion for CSS.

Bio­me­JS is a tool for JavaScript code for­mat­ting and lint­ing that com­bines the func­tion­al­i­ties of Pret­ti­er and ESLint. It can stream­line work­flows and enhance per­for­mance by uti­liz­ing Rust and mul­ti­thread­ing behind the scenes, which is ben­e­fi­cial for large code­bas­es.

A deep dive into the tech­ni­cal world of zip bombs, explor­ing how a minus­cule com­pressed file can be weaponized to over­whelm and crash sys­tems by expand­ing to gigan­tic pro­por­tions.

Build blaz­ing-fast, reac­tive UIs in pure TypeScript/​JavaScript – no vir­tu­al DOM. Aberdeen offers a refresh­ing­ly sim­ple approach to reac­tive UIs.

The Design of Adven­ture and Rock­y’s Boots. An unpub­lished book man­u­script from the dawn of the video-game age (writ­ten in 1983 – 84).

Also ForA­corn 32-bit, Ami­ga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, CDTV, Com­modore 64, Elec­tron, FM Towns, Mac­in­tosh, OS/2, Palm OS, PC-98, Sharp X68000, SNES,…

Find the right Com­mand strip or prod­uct to hang things on a wall.

Sites, aau­thors, and links to fol­low now that Poly­gon is dead.

A self-hostable per­son­al cloud inspired by server­less plat­forms and CGI-BIN. Small­web maps sub­do­mains to sub­fold­ers in your small­web direc­to­ry.

The can­vas ele­ment: part of an alpha­bet­i­cal run through every HTML ele­ment.