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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?

      A history of changing option types and silly consequences

  • 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.

    • 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.

  • 2023

    • That’s a lot of YAML

      There’s a lot of YAML haters out there

  • 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.