2026-02-19 20:54:04
Sandboxels - Experiment with Pixels, by Neal Agarwhal / R74n
This is amazing! This is a pixelated sandbox that allows you to experiment with all kinds of materials and elements, and see how they interact with each other. Each material interacts with others differently, as they would in real life. For example, oil won’t mix with water, but ink will.
A lot of time-consuming potential here, so don’t open it if you have something else to do 😅
2026-02-19 18:16:56
Current, by Terry Godier
This is pretty cool! Terry built a RSS reader that rethinks how to approach a continuous feed — or rather, a current — of articles and links. I particularly love how it aims to solve the noisy feed problem, where a source that posts 20 news items a day might drown a really cool article from someone who doesn’t post often, which is a problem I’ve had on every single RSS reader I’ve used (and that I “solved” by unsubscribing from noisy feeds).
It’s a one-time-purchase and on iOS/iPadOS/macOS only, and I haven’t tried it out yet because I just renewed the annual plan for another RSS reader 😅
2026-02-18 02:24:31
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me, by Scott Shambaugh
This is both funny and incredibly infuriating. A PR was declined on GitHub for an open-source project because it was made by an AI agent and… the AI agent (or the anonymous person behind it) wrote up a defamatory blog post targeted specifically at the project’s maintainer.
If being an open-source maintainer was already a thankless job, now there’s one more hell to endure.
2026-02-14 20:00:00
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
2025, Mary Bronstein
My rating: Decent
One more for the “it’s good but I’ll never watch it again” group. The movie is great at portraying negative emotions and Rose’s acting is top notch. What it chooses not to show is just as important as what it does.
2026-02-10 18:21:50
Stop generating, start thinking, by Sophie Koonin
Fantastic piece wielding the power of common sense and highlighting all the struggles that software engineers have with using generative AI on our jobs.
I also use LLMs as a spicy autocomplete (or even a spicy search) and they can be very useful at times. But I can’t replace my thinking with machines, because machines don’t think.
2026-02-10 08:00:00
Last week I came across a post on Mastodon mentioning Maple Mono, a monospaced font. We don’t really have a shortage of fonts, there’s a lot out there (MonoLisa and Monaspace being my other favorites), but I’d never found one that manages to be so easy to read while also being incredibly cute.
Its main appeal is how rounded the characters are — monospaced fonts are usually blocky due to the constraint of all characters having to have the same width. It also has amazing italics-specific styles and some custom glyphs for commonly-used characters in programming. Seriously, just look at those:
I already swapped my code editor and terminal fonts to Maple Mono, and even changed the monospace font on this website to it already! It pairs greatly with the Catppuccin colors.
Unless you’re reading on an RSS reader, here’s two examples of the font being used. On the heading above ☝️ and on the code block below 👇
<script>
$('#example').on('click', (e) => {
alert('clicked!');
});
</script>
<div class="pixel-flux">
<button id="example">Click @ me</button>
</div>
<style>
/* Look at those sweet, sweet italics */
.pixel-flux {
background: peachpuff;
/* And this gorgeous ampersand */
& #example {
color: goldenrod;
}
}
</style>
