Hyperlinks
Links to resources I find interesting
2025
- #genderUX (2015)
How to handle gender data on forms, if you have to
- Why is Git autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
How changing option types can lead to silly effects
- #genderUX (2015)
2024
- telo misikeke
ilo sitelen tawa toki pona – a toki pona grammar checker
- git – ours vs theirs
Cheat sheet to demystify git terminology: What’s ‘ours’, what’s ‘theirs’? The answer might surprise you.
- TIL: CSVs are kinda bad. DSVs are kinda good.
DSVs seem interesting, but using the Symbol for Record Separator instead of the Record Separator itself seems criminal.
- The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Jordan Eldredge’s exploration yields some unlikely finds
- FFV1 video format
An open format for lossless video encoding
- TIL: What's the point in adding a new line to the end of a file?
By UNIX definition, a text file is a series of lines, and a line is any characters followed by a newline character. Without the newline, it’s not a text file.
- Who’s Afraid of Gender?
A relatively accessible and thoroughly enjoyable new book by Judith Butler on the panic surrounding ‘gender ideology’
- Symbols for Legacy Computing
These charming Unicode characters are a throwback to the early days of computing, featuring many block drawing characters and even stick figures.
- telo misikeke
2023
- That's a lot of YAML
There’s a lot of YAML haters out there
- That's a lot of YAML
2021
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git
A choose-your-own-adventure-style resource to guide you out of many of Git‘s sticky situations.
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git