One of the cool features of MacOS’ Finder app is that it does not trim file names that don’t fit the space at the end, but in the middle of the file name. This does make a lot more sense, as it also shows what format the file is. Neither JavaScript nor CSS have a […]

X isn’t Twitter. X isn’t even driven by human emotions any longer and is run by a management that doesn’t care about people, emotions or the dangers of propaganda. That’s why a lot of people who made Twitter grow in the beginning – real content creators – now meet on BlueSky. I do, too, but […]

In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: XXXXXXX XX   XX X X X X X  X  X X X X X XX   XX XXXXXXX The solution they come up with is a simple console.log() or print command. console.log(`XXXXXXX […]

I write a newsletter every week at https://wearedevelopers.com/newsletter with 150k subscribers. Today I recorded the 3 hours I spent putting the current edition together. Here it is sped up to one minute. I use my browser, lots of copy + paste and VS Code.

The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” buttons on the web. Many of which spy on your users and lots of them that started as WordPress plugins but now are security concerns. Instead of guessing how […]