It seems like every day I find an article or blog post that grabs my attention. Most of the time this happens during the work day and I just don’t have to time to stop what I’m doing to read the whole article. I’m creating this post/list of interesting links as a way to revist these links that I collect in my daily notes. These are a mix of development, computer hardware, design, art and sciences. In this particular list I will break out the WordPress and web development links and move those to the bottom of the list.

Flawless is an execution engine for durable computation.
https://flawless.dev/

J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/j-g-ballard-my-favorite-books/

Mastering Programming
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/mastering-programming

How to keep engineers out of meeting hell
https://morethancoding.com/2024/02/16/how-to-keep-engineers-out-of-meeting-hell/

Clean your codebase with basic information theory
https://taylor.town/compress-code

A collection of Design Systems for Figma from all over the globe 🌎 backed by code.
https://www.designsystemsforfigma.com/

Reading A Programmer’s Guide to COMMON LISP
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/

🤫 Unlocking secret ThinkPad functionality for emulating USB devices
https://xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdci

Testing of the F-35C Tailhook
https://the-engi-nerd.github.io/posts/welcome/

Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/29/linux-manual-pages/

gruvbox – “retro groove” color scheme for vim
https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

Fabien Sanglard’s Website
https://fabiensanglard.net/

How Apple’s developers reflashed Mac ROMs in the ’90s
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2023/11/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/

Wealth Systems in RPGs
https://troypress.com/wealth-systems-in-rpgs/

The Virtues Of The 8-Bit Era : Eight Iconic Processor Designs
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-virtues-of-the-8-bit-era-eight

Pencil Talk | Pencil Reviews and Discussion
https://www.penciltalk.org/

Making noisy SVGs
https://daniel.do/article/making-noisy-svgs/

Mechanical Watch
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Unhappy at your job? ‘The Search’ book details how to find purposeful work
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/01/02/the-search-meaningful-work

The 44 Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-44-Best-Pens-for-2024-Gel-Ballpoint-Rollerball-and-Fountain-Pens/pt/974

AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FPGA-User-Space-Interface-AMD

Is Fortran “a dead language”?
https://cpufun.substack.com/p/is-fortran-a-dead-language

The Director of “Toy Story” also drew the BSD Daemon logo
https://www.jacobelder.com/2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-also-drew-bsd-daemon.html

WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals
https://github.com/taviso/wpunix

Dwarf Fortress Illustrations
https://www.androidarts.com/df/dorf.htm

Generating fantasy maps
https://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/

Maybe: The OS for your personal finances
https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe

A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers!
https://serenityos.org/

Visual Studio Code Extension – Bookmarks
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragnani.Bookmarks

WordPress and Web Development

Solved with CSS! Dropdown Menus
https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-dropdown-menus/

WordPress Widgets
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/widgets/

The Big Gutenberg Misconception
https://wpdevelopmentcourses.ck.page/posts/the-big-gutenberg-misconception

12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades
https://moderncss.dev/12-modern-css-one-line-upgrades/

Frontend Focus
A once–weekly roundup of the best front-end news, articles and tutorials. HTML, CSS, WebGL, Canvas, browser tech, and more.
https://frontendfoc.us/

The Role of Animation and Motion in UX
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/animation-purpose-ux/

Organize your WordPress Media Library, Post Types & Plugins like a Pro.
https://happyfiles.io/

WordPress Plugin Developer Readme Validator
https://wordpress.org/plugins/developers/readme-validator/

WordPress Patterns
Add a beautifully designed, ready to go layout to any WordPress site with a simple copy/paste.
https://wordpress.org/patterns/

Powder (WordPress theme) by Brian Gardner
https://wordpress.org/themes/powder/