Some folks at work have been looking at Dockerization of our dev environment to make it work more consistently across people’s computers. This may be less ideal on Macs, given the need to run a VM, so I’m starting some notes here about other potential options. Nix The Nix package manager is one way to get a …

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Sonobus high quality network audio streaming Sonobus is an open source tool available for just about every platform that sounds really useful for podcasting or remote music making. It sounds super flexible from the description.

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Remote team fun event ideas There’s a whole load of great ideas in this Hacker News thread for Remote Meeting fun. List of AI Writing applications Joanna Penn has compiled a list of artificial intelligence writing applications which cover a range of capabilities. Also interesting is the AIArtists.org list of …

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Backlinks 2021-02-14 There’s a whole load of great ideas in this Hacker News thread for Remote Meeting fun. 2021-01-25 A bunch of people are working on making Remote Meeting spaces better or more interesting. Here’s another one: Jel (though the introduction blog post is way more informative).

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Backlinks 2021-02-14 @desplesda created a freely-usable version of the galaxy brain Viral Memes. Note that there are a couple of CC-BY images in there, so some attribution is required. 2020-07-12 This is definitely a moment in time. Twitter is aflutter with cakes. But first, bagels cut the wrong way and, in reply, …

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Roads for self-driving cars? Self-driving cars have been an area of intense R&D and discussion for years now, and quite a bit of progress has been made. Theoretically, these cars are being trained to be smart enough to handle the wide variety of conditions on the roads we have. But are you truly comfortable with …

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Nifty blog styling with tailwind and roughjs Michael Lucht’s Make your website sketchy with Tailwind and Roughjs describes a technique for creating a style that I rather enjoy. He uses a Svelte-based static site generator (elderjs), but I much prefer the speed and ease of maintenance of Hugo.

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Backlinks 2021-02-11 Michael Lucht’s Make your website sketchy with Tailwind and Roughjs describes a technique for creating a style that I rather enjoy. He uses a Svelte-based static site generator (elderjs), but I much prefer the speed and ease of maintenance of Hugo. 2020-12-03 Elder.js is a Svelte static …

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Icons for Excalidraw Excalidraw is a great, free, open-source tool for making hand-drawn-looking vector graphics. Drwn.io has a whole bunch of icons that can be used at Excalidraw. Many are free, but even the pro ones only take $10 to unlock.

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Hygiene theater Hygiene theater is still a huge waste of time writes Derek Thompson. In other words, the evidence continues to support that COVID-19 does not regularly move from person to person via surfaces. Next Season Of Want to see when your TV show of choice will next be on? Next Season Of tells you whatever it …

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