Userscripts are a powerful way to take back control of the web, but their design hasn’t kept pace with the modern web. In particular, they struggle with content loaded in the background—think single page apps, HTMX, and infinite scroll. Recall that userscripts are designed to run at page load, and while there are several options…
Read More Userscripts at the SPABrands I don’t like. I don’t have to explain why, but the answer is almost always some combination of bad quality, bad privacy, and spam. Hmmmm Avoid Dead to me Bonus brand rankings US IP camera brands: Reolink > AMCrest > Foscam
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My electric utility gives me nice a good amount of data, including a download button! This made me want to get this data into Grafana so I could explore it better. Getting the data That “Download my data” button is tempting. The data ends up looking like: and I noticed the API returned a little…
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An hour after second coat of Feather Finish
Writing some notes to my future self so I remember these tricks. Tools/materials used: caulk Henry 549 Feather Finish $18 1 gal bucket – I found this was the smallest size that was still convenient for holding my tools water trowel or drywall knife, whichever is biggest margin trowel old plastic takeout container to use…
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Taco Bell Mexican Pizza
In Demolition Man (1993), John Spartan is frozen for decades only to be thawed to fight a familiar enemy in an unfamiliar world; where every bathroom has three shells and Taco Bell is the only restaurant left in America. In software development, regular maintenance costs a lot of time, so we “freeze” apps all the…
Read More What is “Taco Bell Future”?For meetings, I switched to typing my notes. I figured out some tricks to regain some of the flexibility handwritten notes offer. When I jot down questions I want to ask, I begin the line with ?? ?? How does this affect our stonk prices? And when there’s a point I want to make, I…
Read More Use ?? and !! when typing notesI really didn’t want to write this, but every good link about structuring unit tests is dead. And I don’t want to hype this too much, but learning to arrange my tests in a certain order was one of the biggest productivity gains in my career. You should arrange your test into three distinct sections,…
Read More Code review: organize your tests for your sanityI often see JavaScript code that looks like: That’s a pretty big no-no because the only way to know where that error came from is from the error traceback. Tracebacks are hard to read, and you’re assuming that your traceback will even make it to your final logs. You may lose it via truncation or…
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