Mail, run.

Ethan Marcotte’s website

What else happened this week? Well, I wrote my first op-ed; also, I got some mail.

You Deserve a Tech Union is here!

Ethan Marcotte’s website

Well, hey! Happy pub day to my latest book!

TinyPilot: Month 37

mtlynch.io

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Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people.

Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my business and my professional life overall.

Highlights

I think through what it would take to add recurring subscriptions for TinyPilot Pro.
I’ve done some more exploration into Nix for managing development environments.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

The Verge’s new way to display news item links is a terrible idea

Christian Heilmann

Sometimes it is baffling to me why people publish on the web and don’t follow the simplest ideas that made the web what it is. Take a link for example. You can link anything in HTML so that when users interact with it they go to another URL, or a target inside the current document. […]

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Tabular numbers

Sebastian De Deyne

One of my favorite underrated (and underused!) CSS properties is font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums.

Tabular numbers are monospaced, which keeps their sizes consistent and keeps numbers with the same amount of digits aligned.

There are two common cases that warrant tabular numbers: tabular data and moving numbers.

Tabular data

I suppose it's in the name. Numbers (especially large numbers) are easier to scan when they're tabular.

Moving numbers

When numbers are updated in place (like a timer), tabular numbers keep them in place.

PS: font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums is available as .tabular-nums in Tailwind.

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