Backlinks 2021-04-19 As I’ve seen others note, this is a bad name because there’s already a “Flow” in the React ecosystem. Even so, React Flow looks like a very nice set of React Components for building connected node-based UIs. 2020-10-02 reactgrid is a nice-looking spreadsheet React …

André Garzia on writing a technical book André Garzia’s Writing a Technical Book touches upon many of the topics of my forthcoming book on publishing. If you can’t wait for my book, read André’s post. Filed away in Publishing. Also, Roguelike Development with JavaScript sounds like a really fun book.

Tally: free form creation Tally looks like a nice service for collecting information (or even payments) from people.

Aggregators Free Illustrations links to a whole bunch of places to get freely usable art Old Book Illustrations has just what it sounds like, and these illustrations could be helpful for the right kind of project Open Source Vectors undraw illustrations Artists I write fantasy novels, which generally have custom …

The pandemic’s wrongest man For a debunking of common COVID-19 conspiracy theories or just plain bad info, there’s Derek Thompson’s The Panedemic’s Wrongest Man

Rust is for Professionals Gregory Szorc’s Rust is for Professionals is his 2+ year experience report from using Rust. tl;dr: He really likes it! Also includes his approach to speeding up compiles.

Backlinks 2021-04-13 Gregory Szorc’s Rust is for Professionals is his 2+ year experience report from using Rust. tl;dr: He really likes it! Also includes his approach to speeding up compiles.

Photopea: Browser-based image editor Photopea seems fascinating. It’s a browser-based image editor supporting many common file formats used in professional design (PSD, Sketch, Illustrator, XD, PDF, Figma). Its creator manages to make a very good living, largely from ads. Squirrelbyte Squirrelbyte is an open …

Monster Mash: Draw, Inflate, Animate I remember a few months back when the Monster Mash paper came out and I thought it looked really cool. Google has released the code and even put a demo up at MonsterMash.zone. The short of it is that you can quickly sketch something in 2D, the software then “inflates” it …

Surprisingly Slow In Surprisingly Slow, Gregory Szorc wrote about a whole collection of cases in which we sacrifice Performance more than we’d expect to for all kinds of little things.