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by alwillis 9mo ago
The first version is for macOS, which has snapshots [1] and file versioning [2] built-in. [1]: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/04/08/apfs-snapshots/ [2]: https://eclecticlight.co/2021/
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by alwillis 9mo ago
> It’s not a hack Yeah, this isn't a hack; this is what media queries were made for. Now, this is a hack! You had to do this to make :hover work correctly for IE6—IE8 [1]: body { behavior: url("csshover3.htc");
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by alwillis 9mo ago
Attempting to lazy load an LCP could delay the loading the image as much as 15% [1]. Lazy-loading is an effective technique we can use to delay non-critical resources at the beginning of the page load. However, a considerable problem occur
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Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know(meiert.com)
1 points by alwillis 9mo ago|0 comments
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by alwillis 9mo ago
> Meanwhile, in any other formal language (including JS and CSS!), the standard assumption is that syntax errors are fatal, In CSS, a syntax error isn't fatal. Most of the time, an unrecognized property causes that selector and all
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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?(wired.com)
74 points by alwillis 10mo ago|39 comments
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by alwillis 10mo ago
The AI labs use each other's models constantly. It's also pragmatic: there are cases where one model can't do something but a different model can blow right through it.
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by alwillis 10mo ago
There's an X thread where Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code) shows his workflow of running 5 CC agents in the terminal using 5 tabs while running 10-15 instances of CC on the web [1] and how he moves projects from the terminal to th
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by alwillis 10mo ago
1. Any decent setup using the CSS Language Server Protocol would warn you about conflicting variables. 2. Custom properties can be scoped to a particular part of the DOM [1]. 3. @function has shipped Chrome; custom properties defined inside
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> If they can't learn to reliably and predictably use CSS in the same way, then I'd say that makes CSS flawed. It's not the fault of CSS that most developers don't learn to use it correctly. That's like blaming t
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by alwillis 10mo ago
The point being missed is the printing press led to tens of millions of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue. So far, when a new technology is introduced that people were initially afraid of, end up creating a whole new set of jobs and i
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by alwillis 10mo ago
The next best thing is to use the leading open source/open weights models for free or for pennies on OpenRouter [1] or Huggingface [2]. An article about the best open weight models, including Qwen and Kimi K2 [3]. [1]: https:/&#x
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> I keep struggling to figure out the point of view of the CSS designers. Before 2017, the web had no page layout ability. Think about it. Before the advent of Flexbox and CSS Grid, certain layouts were impossible to do. All we had were
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by alwillis 10mo ago
Actually, the invention of the printing press in 1450 created a similar disruption, economic panic and institutional fear similar to what we're experiencing now: For centuries, the production of books was the exclusive domain of profe
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by alwillis 10mo ago
It probably won't require 10,000 hours but vibe coding is a craft. I found Steve Yegge's book to be very helpful [1]. [1]: "Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond" — https
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by alwillis 10mo ago
A great summary why Atom is better [1]. Here's an oldie but a goodie regarding RSS vs Atom [2] [1]: https://ittavern.com/difference-between-rss-and-atom/ [2]: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/
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by alwillis 10mo ago
The models from China are good and very cheap (or free) on OpenRouter; I can recommend Qwen and Kimi K2. Here's Qwen3 Coder [1] [1]: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder:free
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by alwillis 10mo ago
This skill demonstrates how to tell an agent to make a non-generic website [1]. These are the money lines: NEVER use generic AI-generated aesthetics like overused font families (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system fonts), cliched color s
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by alwillis 10mo ago
grep and ripgrep are used by Claude Code; I suspect other agents are doing something similar.
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2025: The Year SwiftUI Died(blog.jacobstechtavern.com)
3 points by alwillis 10mo ago|0 comments
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Screen Sizes: A Web App That Shows the Display Resolution for Every iPhone Model(screensizes.app)
3 points by alwillis 10mo ago|1 comments
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> LLMs MAY be a version of office hours or asking the TA In my experience, most TA's are not great at explaining things to students. They were often the best student in their class, and they can't relate to students who don&#x2
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> Apple is very much welcome to push for signing off of software that appears on their own store. Just to be clear, apps have to be notarized/signed to run on an Apple device. For macOS, notorized apps aren't required to be dis
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> Safari is the browser with most quirks compared to FF and Chrome That may have been true 5 years ago and I get developers have long memories—but that's no longer the case. > Sure they implemented some stuff before other who car
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> I avoid the new HTML tags… The HTML5 specification was released in 2014, so tags like article, section, header, figure, etc. have been around for more than a decade; they are not that new.
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> I understand that it is not the same semantically, but I am using div tags and p tags a LOT. I avoid the new HTML tags for more semantic meaning as this adds cognitive load to my brain. Serious question: are you saying that an entire w
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> I know for sure that Apple, who has an important seat on the standard committee, holded back innovation for so long, it's not a matter of finding or not finding solutions. They're failing us for different interests Apple isn&
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> If you are displaying it using a different color profile, then it needs to be converted. Displaying P3 in sRGB is doing it wrong. Correct. What's supposed to happen is P3 colors get converted on the fly to the their closest sRGB c
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by alwillis 10mo ago
Apple essentially invented color matching on personal computers back in the classic Mac OS days; it's hard to believe after all this time, they're not dealing with color correctly. The WebKit blog from 2016: WebKit color-matches
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by alwillis 10mo ago
> HTML has become more and more bloated. How many methods do we need to do something that was possible back in the 90s? This is incorrect. Lots of old stuff was removed or deprecated from the HTML5 specification; elements like `s`, `u` w

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