Tech, life and everything else
This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
As someone who properly learned to program using Java and still works with Java almost every day, I am used to generics. Flexible parameters whose constraints do not yet have to be set during definition. The fact that there are no generics in Go took some getting used to.
Kev Quirk recently released his new project Simple.css, a CSS stylesheet that focuses on vanilla HTML without classes.
James Van Dyne reminds to start a blog:
Through a tutorial posted on Hacker News, I just came across another alternative to IFTTT and especially Zapier. IFTTT costs money now (at least pretty quickly when you get into the subject matter) and Zapier is not that cheap either. n8n is a good open source solution when it comes to workflow automation and is probably a lot more powerful compared to IFTTT too.
Jake Wharton (an employee at Google) shares his process of removing Google as a single point of failure for his data, in two parts.
Chris Wiegman shared a status update about his journey to replace big tech with small tech.
Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov is thinking about ways to monetize Telegram, which until now he mostly paid from his own savings:
I am currently in the process of writing my bachelor thesis and my goal is to finish it as soon as possible. What I sometimes have problems with is distraction. If I don’t immediately enjoy a task, but have to overcome myself, then I get easily distracted. “Just check out something else for a minute…”
Jeffrey Zeldman’s daughter Ava wrote this really powerful essay called “The Shame”.
Matthias Ott wrote this article called “Make it Personal” on CSS-Tricks.