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35 from 23 Dec 2014 to 31 Mar 2026
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2026 4

  1. Making human languages irrelevant
  2. Related UI elements should not appear unrelated
  3. Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful
  4. Modern UI is clean and invisible? Ha, I wish!

2025 13

  1. Alarm is sacred, must not fail, but iOS 26 is wicked
  2. Examples are the best documentation
  3. Benjamin Button Reviews macOS
  4. AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice
  5. Finland is a high-context society that loves defaults
  6. AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing
  7. Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction
  8. But what if I really want a faster horse?
  9. How to play Half Life 1 and 2 on M-chip Macs
  10. Knight Ride: a game about rogue (chess) knight
  11. Don't make it "like Google"
  12. Why I prefer to git stage outside of the editor or the terminal
  13. They made computers behave like annoying salesmen

2024 11

  1. YouTube picks, December 2024
  2. How to make forbidden changes to SQLite tables
  3. I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc static site generator had RSS
  4. How to build and publish multi-platform Rust binaries via Github actions
  5. How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect.
  6. Jupyter notebooks as e2e tests
  7. Lesser-known science fiction movies
  8. Your minimalistic app is great! Can you add these 38 features, though?
  9. Should I use web fonts?
  10. In search for a good Markdown editor for my blogging platform
  11. Here we go

2020 2

  1. The mandatory smartphone
  2. It's okay to walk uphill

2019 1

  1. Programming vs. Coding vs. Software Engineering

2017 2

  1. Products aren't for people yet
  2. Producing a video lesson

2016 1

  1. Please, recommend me a book about X

2014 1

  1. Dreaming of obsession