I built one of these for myself in numbers. A rigid grid though, coloured by school/uni/emploer, with future milestones marked, such as mortgage paid off.

kottke.org/25/02/004…

There’s no chance I’ll read all these, but it’s worth saving the link here anyway. A CheatSheet of 128 CheatSheets for Developers - DEV Community

A useful summary of new/upcoming HTML features, including popover and styles selects.

A super-useful reminder of the power behind irb and Rails console.

Y3K imagining of coke, created with AI. And yet a plastic bottle is still the best they can do?

Changing the domain of a ghost instance:

ghost config url www.example.com
ghost setup nginx
ghost restart

Amazing that the USA managed to send people to the moon with the tech of the time. It looks like the Apollo 17 module wouldn’t survive a DHL delivery, never mind a moon landing and ascent.

APOD: 2024 December 14 - Apollo 17’s Moonship

I subscribe to the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day and use the eye catching images for my phone Lock Screen, using a rotation from an album in photos. The images are always explained well, a great daily distraction!

I love the effort and detail in this breakdown of Shopify’s 3D globe visualisation.

Apple TV+ has shone hit after hit into my retinas. One of my current favourites though, is shrinking.

This looks pretty neat. I like that the dev is responsible for creating the HTML too. All FlyonUI Tailwind CSS component - FlyonUI

After a brief dormancy (3 years?!), my two iOS apps have been updated.Returning to SwiftUI has been pleasurable, but yet more hoops to jump through when publishing on the AppStore. Luckily, this post by Inderjeetsandhu details the Privacy declaration for use of UserDefaults.standard.

Wow, reading about this report on cruise ships and their environmental impact in yesterday’s The Guardian “First Edition” email. This quote blew my mind:

…compared to flights more generally, cruises produce considerably more carbon emissions per passenger-kilometre: twice as much as the equivalent flights plus hotel stays for the same period.

Reading about Apple’s reluctance to open up PWA to 3rd party browsers in the EU has thrown up two ideas new to me regarding bullshit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor. Thank you infrequently.org/2024/02/h…

A list of best sci-fi. Nice touch to place the Hitchhikers Guide at #42!

Plenty of these are dropping into my reading list. 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - What Is The Best Science Fiction Book Ever Written?

I generally agree with John Gruber on how the Digital Markets Act is hard to comply with, but it’s interesting that Apple is now on the receiving end of the know-it-when-I-see-it rules that iOS devs have had to work under for 15 years.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/eu_reaping_what_it_sows

I don’t fancy going through teething again as an adult, it looks like hell as a baby. But tooth regrowth could be just six years away for general public use. World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September

I know little about design, past keeping it simple with few colours and two fonts. This looks like a great guide to work by: Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

Years late, I’ve been watching Homeland on Netflix and later on Disney+. After eight seasons, I couldn’t work out how they would end Carrie’s story. But they hit the perfect note, a great conclusion.

I love PostgreSQL. It’s the most amazing piece of software. It can do so much, with so few wobbles, crashes and bugs. So why do text UIs refuse to do what you so clearly want?

reporting=> /q
reporting-> exit
Use \q to quit.
reporting-> \q

📸 Windy