A whole book about videos of things being made! Also: reading the full blurb at the Duke Press site immediately make me thing about the genre of music gear videos on Youtube affectionately known as Hands Videos…

"And, when you free programming from the requirement to be general and professional and SCALABLE, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen. I can report to you: not only is this different activity rewarding in almost exactly the same way that cooking for someone you love is rewarding, there’s another feeling, one that persists as you use the app together."

This is great. I am always bewildered by the direct equivalence of learning-to-code and learning-to-make-money. Instead, learning to cook for yourself – just well enough for you and the few people who need you – is a nice metaphor, as is cookery itself.

Also: oh for something like "Hypercard for iOS", and oh for an end to code-signing and developer accounts and professionalisation-with-no-meaningful-alternative.

"The CYPD4225 is definitely not rated for space. I have no idea if it would work in space."

This is fun, but also detailed. USB-PD chargers need a microcontroller to do power negotiation. So how powerful is a USB-C PD charger compared to, say, the Apollo 11 guidance computer? Forrest Heller goes into some detail – not just comparing clock speed, but also looking at memory, and clock-cycles per operation.

I was enjoying that x-height, but was going to miss the ligatures of Fira, and then I saw the ligatures, and I was in, so you know, new typeface!

This is nice: a collection of single-serving web tools that do one useful thing, primarily for software/web developers. Bookmarked for the next time I Need A Thing.

"It's cheaper than a Tag Connect and may even be smaller."

Using a SOIC-8 debug clip as a two-sided programmer. Clever!

"…killing off links is a strategy. It may be presented as a cost-saving measure, or as a way of reducing the sharing of untrusted links. But it is a strategy, designed to keep people from the open web, the place where they can control how, and whether, someone makes money off of an audience. The web is where we can make sites that don’t abuse data in the ways that Facebook properties do.

Links take us to places where we can make choices that Instagram never would."

It never ceases to infuriate me that links on Instagram just don't work. "Link in bio" drives me spare, and worst of all, it is never the fault of the people resorting to it. This is good stuff from Anil Dash.

"In this short post, I will outline how owners of commemorative WoW server hardware treat these objects as mementos of their time in the world of WoW." (And: how. as the systems became more parallel, there was less physical connection between "a single box" and "a single realm", and so the desire to own Your Realm goes down.

Somewhere in there is My Thunder Bluff.

Yeah, this is good / this is roughly the internet I used to know and still know / not everything is terrible.

Yes, you can put the Dock in the Touch Bar, but the other utilities it adds are pretty good too. So I'm giving this a go for a while. I mean, what else are you going to do with the Touch Bar?