23+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1442+ words) I've promised myself I'd "manage my time better" more times than I can count. None of it lasted a month. Work harder. Cut the distractions. Stay focused. Every one of those resolutions quietly died, and for years I didn't notice…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (455+ words) Either a heavily filtered wrapper around a big commercial index (which still leaks through things a filter didn't anticipate), or a walled garden with a handful of hand-picked links that goes stale in a month. kids.findnix.eu is an…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (574+ words) Five states, one query language, and an "active licenses only" checkbox that only actually filters two of them. That's the trap in scraping US childcare-license open-data registries: Socrata SODA makes every state's API look identical, but "active" is defined — or…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (182+ words) A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million for harming children’s mental health. The judgment was based on claims that Meta’s algorithms promoted content that negatively affected young users, violating state law and exposing the company to significant liability....

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1275+ words) Struggling with burnout? Procrastination? Reaching your goals? Let me share a few methods that help me actually get things done in the long run. And yes, at first glance, some of them might make you think I've completely lost it…...

6+ day, 45+ min ago   (547+ words) Before you write a single name, ask yourself: what does this thing do? Not what it is, but what it does. For functions, that's easy: the name should be a verb phrase. For variables, think about the role the value…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (886+ words) This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition I live with seven cats: Kiara, Golia, Meias, Vaquinha, Tigrinha, Peluda, and Gamora. They all have different personalities, different appearances, and different routines. And, like many pet owners, there is…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1546+ words) Frontend Challenge CSS Art Submission 🍲🥧 This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art. Two choices made it worth drawing rather than just worth eating. A glass bowl, so you can see the boil. In a steel…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1242+ words) There is a comedy sketch from Bob & Tom that starts with a hilariously impossible promise: overnight delivery by train, from New York to Los Angeles. At one point, someone asks if they can really get a 2,000-pound package across the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (116+ words) Frontend Challenge CSS Art Submission 🍲🥧 This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art. My inspiration was a warm bowl of tomato soup - simple, cozy, and nostalgic. I wanted to capture the feeling of a homemade comfort…...