It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything overtly political, but I just listened to the third and fourth episodes of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest series of his podcast, Revisionist History. Even though this is probably my favorite podcast of all…
Note: this is a continuation of my earlier consideration of Nova. It seems that the recurring theme of Nova is that if a feature of Visual Studio Code or TextMate is sufficiently important, it (a) has a first class native…
Can an indie software company compete with a free product from Microsoft that seemingly everyone, myself included, uses… as well as other well-regarded indy products such as Sublime and BBEdit? I’m a big, long-term fan of Panic software. It started…
The main reason xinjs-ui exists is that I wanted to have a really good table component I could just plug into projects. It would be easier to just use something off the shelf, but virtual table components aren’t actually widely…
I decided to revisit two of the more interesting Chromium-based browsers, Brave—the privacy first browser that I was somehow convinced was based on Gecko and not Chromium—and The Browser Company’s Arc browser, which basically offers an alternative to the tab…
(In which I compare serving web apps to running a burger chain.) This is a long post. If you just want to know how to very simply get your dynamically-rendered pages indexed properly by Google (et al), just skip to…
I’ve been writing a lot of code, both front-end and back-end, for my current project, and lately I’ve had to do a lot of data-munging—processing legacy data from a badly designed PostgreSQL database into a—better designed, I hope—Google FireStore noSQL…
As far as I can tell, when I google this question I get answers that are years out of date, and stupid. No-one who uses java wants to launch the System Preferences control panel even if there were a Java…
I’ve been a remarkAble 2 user—on and off, mostly off—for a couple of years now. All the things that made an initial favorable impression are true, and the product has actually gotten a little better in certain respects (pinch-to-zoom!). But…
For some reason I’ve had a nagging urge to build a nice timezone selector ever since I started working on a calendaring system for a previous startup and we needed a timezone selector (in the end we just had a…