2026-02-10 18:21:50
Stop generating, start thinking, by Sophie Koonin
Fantastic piece wielding the power of common sense and highlighting all the struggles that software engineers have with using generative AI on our jobs.
I also use LLMs as a spicy autocomplete (or even a spicy search) and they can be very useful at times. But I can’t replace my thinking with machines, because machines don’t think.
2026-02-10 08:00:00
Last week I came across a post on Mastodon mentioning Maple Mono, a monospaced font. We don’t really have a shortage of fonts, there’s a lot out there (MonoLisa and Monaspace being my other favorites), but I’d never found one that manages to be so easy to read while also being incredibly cute.
Its main appeal is how rounded the characters are — monospaced fonts are usually blocky due to the constraint of all characters having to have the same width. It also has amazing italics-specific styles and some custom glyphs for commonly-used characters in programming. Seriously, just look at those:
I already swapped my code editor and terminal fonts to Maple Mono, and even changed the monospace font on this website to it already! It pairs greatly with the Catppuccin colors.
Unless you’re reading on an RSS reader, here’s two examples of the font being used. On the heading above ☝️ and on the code block below 👇
<script>
$('#example').on('click', (e) => {
alert('clicked!');
});
</script>
<div class="pixel-flux">
<button id="example">Click @ me</button>
</div>
<style>
/* Look at those sweet, sweet italics */
.pixel-flux {
background: peachpuff;
/* And this gorgeous ampersand */
& #example {
color: goldenrod;
}
}
</style>2026-02-08 20:00:00
Sinners
2025, Ryan Coogler
My rating: Loved it!
While the movie takes its time to get going, it is so well worth it. It keeps reinventing itself every few minutes and just keeps getting better and better.
The soundtrack, though, is just on another level. It is so good. One particular scene is gonna stick in my mind for a while, it was freaking amazing. If you watched it, you know which one it is.
2026-02-08 00:31:35
Snow Day
A very cool way to spend the afternoon, just 30min away from home. Lots of kids and dogs playing in the snow!
Taken in Piani Resinelli, Lecco, Italy.
Photos taken on Saturday, 07 Feb 2026
2026-02-03 23:53:06
More invoker commands, and more reasons not to use JavaScript please, by Paweł Grzybek
HTML is getting more powerful! Now you can add some predefined commands to HTML elements that can do things like open (or close) modals, for example, without a single line of JS. This article explains really succinctly how that works. The custom commands thing is neat as well.
2026-02-02 20:00:00
Bugonia
2025, Yorgos Lanthimos
My rating: Loved it!
Gosh I loved this movie. A thriller that managed to make me both really tense and laugh out loud in the same scene without any of these reactions contradicting each other. It’s absolutely ridiculous in the best way.
